Ophthalmology

The Ophthalmology Department of Hohhot First Hospital was founded in 1921. Based on the department's service philosophy of putting patients first, being rigorous and realistic, and being benevolent and ethical, we serve the people of the capital. The ophthalmology department of the hospital currently has 3 chief physicians, 2 deputy chief physicians, 3 attending physicians, and 1 resident physician, including 5 master's students and 4 undergraduates. There are 12 nurses in the department, including 10 with undergraduate degrees, 2 with associate degrees, 2 deputy chief nurses, 2 supervisor nurses, and 8 nurses. It undertakes a large number of ophthalmology outpatient clinics, hospitalizations and physical examinations every year. There are 18 ophthalmology wards. Annual outpatient emergency visits (12,336), annual surgeries (131 cases), annual discharges (150 people), average hospitalization days (6.29 days), annual average bed utilization (23%), cure and improvement rate (98%), annual business income (2.1 million)It has internationally advanced professional ophthalmic instruments and equipment, such as: German Leica ophthalmic surgical microscope, Japanese Nidec optical interference multifunctional axial length measuring instrument, Nidec non-mydriatic fundus color camera, Nidec multi-wavelength retinal laser therapy device, German Heidelberg optical coherence tomography scanner, Heidelberg chorioretinography all-in-one machine, Colin anterior segment camera, ophthalmic A/B type ultrasonic diagnostic system, fully automatic computer perimetry, etc. The ophthalmic surgeries performed include: cataract, glaucoma, intravitreal injection, fundus laser treatment, common strabismus correction, ptosis surgery, pterygium removal combined with autologous limbal stem cell transplantation, dacryocystorhinostomy, lacrimal cannulation, etc. Since the intravitreal injection and fundus laser treatment were carried out in 2018, all patients have achieved satisfactory results and no serious complications have occurred. The department opened a special dry eye clinic this year to solve various ocular surface problems common to people in the capital. The department is responsible for the clinical teaching work of clinical medical students of Inner Mongolia Medical University. Professor Yun Lixia from the Ophthalmology Department of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Hospital comes to our hospital’s ophthalmology clinic and surgery every Thursday. The ophthalmology departments of the two hospitals regularly organize academic exchanges and medical record sharing activities.