Hohhot Second Hospital

Hohhot Second Hospital is located in Yuquan District, Hohhot City. It is a third-level infectious disease specialist hospital that integrates medicine, teaching, and research and was awarded by the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China. Its predecessor was the 532th Hospital of the Chinese People’s Volunteers. After returning from the Korean War in May 1958, the hospital collectively transferred to establish the Hohhot Infectious Disease Hospital. In 1991, it was renamed Hohhot Second Hospital. The hospital has a designated bed capacity of 400 and a construction area of ​​25,000 square meters. Its scale, facilities, diagnosis and treatment, disinfection, isolation and other conditions are the first among similar hospitals in the autonomous region. Outpatient clinics, wards, and supply rooms are all designed in accordance with legal infectious disease management regulations, with reasonable layout and strict isolation. Each ward is equipped with 1-3 beds, with independent toilets and washrooms. The wards between the ward buildings are equipped with double passages and internal and external corridors. The hospital is lined with trees, pavilions, flower pavilions, and winding paths. The garden-style construction has begun to take shape. The hospital has complete departments and advanced equipment, including a million-level laminar flow operating room, negative pressure ward, and ICU ward.It mainly diagnoses and treats various types of hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, hepatic ascites, and various common and difficult infectious diseases such as the respiratory system, digestive system, and nervous system. It uses integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment technology, artificial liver support treatment technology, ascites concentration and reinfusion technology, and laparoscopic interventional treatment technology to treat many patients with severe liver disease. The hospital uses mother-to-child interruption technology to directly reduce the incidence of vertical hepatitis B infection, with an interruption success rate of more than 97%, bringing good news to women of childbearing age with hepatitis B. In terms of development, the hospital strengthens inter-regional cooperation and implements strong alliances. In 2001, the hospital became the Beijing You'an Hospital Branch, a nationally renowned third-level infectious disease hospital with strong technical force. The hospital regularly sends experts to the hospital for clinical academic, scientific research, and teaching guidance. The hospital has been sending medical staff to the hospital for further study, training, and learning of advanced medical science skills and management experience, so that the overall service level continues to track new peaks. The hospital attaches great importance to developing medicine through science and education. In recent years, it has won 1 autonomous region medical achievement award and 6 municipal science and technology progress awards. For many years, it has been responsible for teaching infectious diseases at Inner Mongolia Medical College and has been a base for clinical internships and internships. In 2008, it passed the teaching hospital evaluation conducted by the Department of Health and the Medical College. There are currently three part-time professors at the medical school.In 2009, it was rated as a key infectious disease discipline in the autonomous region. In the same year, it was rated as a key research laboratory for the prevention and treatment of major infectious diseases by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is also the designated treatment unit for hand, foot and mouth, H1N1 influenza, H7N9 influenza, AIDS, and brucellosis in the capital area. The hospital will continue to improve special departments such as intestinal tract, respiratory tract, skin and venereal diseases, liver cancer intervention, hemodialysis, surgery, pathology, obstetrics and gynecology for patients with infectious diseases. Build the hospital into a truly modern infectious disease specialist hospital with “larger specialties and smaller comprehensives”.