The Inner Mongolia International Mongolian Medicine Hospital is the largest Mongolian-medicine hospital in China. Founded in 2012, it is a modern Grade III Class A hospital centred on Mongolian medicine that integrates clinical care, research, teaching, prevention, health care, rehabilitation, emergency services and pharmaceutical preparation. It is a national key construction site for ethnic-medicine hospitals, the National Mongolian Medicine Preparation Center, a national training base for Mongolian-medicine technical backbones, resident physicians and general practitioners, and also serves as the guidance centre for Mongolian-medicine hospitals, clinical work, research and teaching across eight provinces and regions, as well as an international centre for Mongolian-medicine exchange.
The hospital covers a construction area of 176,800 square metres and employs more than 2,000 staff. It has 1,900 authorised beds (including 226 at the Jinqiao branch) and 91 clinical, medical-technology, pharmaceutical and administrative departments, with Mongolian-medicine departments accounting for 77% of all clinical departments.
The hospital brings together many renowned experts and scholars of high moral standing and accomplished medical skill. It has attracted more than 50 postdoctoral and doctoral researchers, and Mongolian-medicine practitioners make up over 80% of professional staff. It has undertaken 732 research projects at various levels. Drawing on the distinctive strengths of Mongolian medicine, the hospital performs more than 200 special Mongolian-medicine therapies, including fire-needle and warm-needle acupuncture, bloodletting, brain-shaking therapy for concussion, psychosomatic medicine, herbal steaming, bone setting, acupoint reflex therapy, massage reduction, scalp acupuncture, tea therapy, paediatric cerebral-palsy rehabilitation, copper-pot therapy, back-rolling therapy, fermented-mare-milk (Tseg) therapy, hammer-vibration therapy and the five-therapy herbal bath. While championing this traditional medicine, the hospital also pursues the balanced, coordinated development of Mongolian and Western medicine, providing safer and more convenient health solutions for skin, respiratory and tumour diseases.
Since its founding, the hospital has completed more than 600,000 outpatient visits, discharged 280,000 inpatients and provided emergency care to 330,000 patients.
Serving the national Belt and Road development strategy and the autonomous region plan to become a northward-opening bridgehead, the hospital has organised 30 trips of Mongolian-medicine experts to Mongolia for free clinics and academic exchanges, benefiting more than 50,000 patient visits.