Wuhan Union Hospital
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Wuhan Union Hospital is a hospital in central China, founded in 1866. The hospital is affiliated with Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China. During its history, it has earned many honors, including 3-A hospital, Top 100 hospitals of China, and Civilized unit of the province of Hubei. The Hubei First-aid Center is also located in Union Hospital.
There are 4 national key projects, 6 provincial key projects in Union hospital, with 6 research institutes, 22 doctor-degree units and 28 master-degree units in Union Hospital. Departments include internal and surgical cardiology, medical imaging, urology, hematology, ENT, gastroenterology, orthopedics, micro-neurosurgery, general surgery, ophthalmology, interventive radiology, and infectious medicine. Many high-reputation doctors are in Union hospital, including more than 300 professors and associated professors, 86 doctor-degree tutors. Among them 35 are directors or vice-directors of national or provincial academic associations.
Annually, the number of outpatients treated at Union Hospital is 1.38 million, and the number of in-patients is 38 thousand, with 19 thousand operations each year.
Since 1980, Union hospital has received 63 international advanced research products, another 184 has being national advanced. 148 got national or provincial awards, among them, “Studies on hypopotassium”, “Post-paraplegia urination recovery by artificial somatic-visceral reflux?reconstruction” got 2nd class National Science and Technology Awards; “Studies on H2O2 sonic cardiac imaging” and “Studies on a new group of platelet aggregation dysfunction” got 3rd class National Science and Technology Awards and 1st class Awards of the Ministry of Education of China.
More than 80 new technologies are applied in Union Hospital annually, most of them are first in Hubei province and are advanced nationally. Heart transplantation by the cardiovascular institute was the first in central China; heart-lung joint transplantation is new recording in china. The institute is also well known in complicated coronary heart diseases, dilated cardio-musculopathy, congenital heart diseases, coronary bridge and cardiovascular interventive therapy. The institute of hematology is well known for leukemia and bone marrow transplantation. Post-paraplegia urination recovery by artificial somatic-visceral reflux reconstruction invented by the institute of urology is first in the world, many paraplegia patients get much profits from it. Severe acute Pancreatitis therapy, liver transplantation, laparoscopic megalocolon resection, hilar cholangicarcinoma resection by general surgery is advanced nationally. Electric cochlea input, trans-cerebral tumor resection, intra-cervical port tumor resection applied by ENT are well known in China. Hypersplenemia complexed with portal hypertention can be cure by double interventional therapy in Union Hospital. Many joint and centrum-related technologies by the orthopedics are among the first-class in China.
Union Hospital is equipped with advanced medical instruments, including one first-class oncology center, 16-splice spiral CT, gamma knife, hyperconductive MRI, PET, and themotherapy instruments. To impove its medical service, a 33-floor, 15,000 square-meter comprehensive medical building, one of the largest surgery buildings in Asia, was completed in October 2006.
