Free health checks for children in new clinic
June 26, 2010, Saturday
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HOW tall will your child be as an adult? Will he or she be prone to any addictions?
If you want to know this, you can take your child to the first child health clinic in China at Minhang Health Center for Women and Children and take a free exam. From June 1, the clinic has been opened to the public.
In the traditional form of China's child care, only children under three years old are entitled to hospital health exams.
When the child reaches four, parents have to wait until the result of basic measurements such as height and weight when a child enters school.
Other health problems rarely become apparent unless a child is taken to hospital with an acute illness.
Preventive care
Now, the new child health clinic may change the situation.
It offers services for children ranging from four to 16, and the exam covers more than 10 indicators of health, physically and mentally, such as blood pressure, eyesight, hearing, attention span and Internet addiction.
When doing the exam, doctors of the health center will also guide the testing process, explain the results to parents and offer professional advice.
According to doctors, it's very important to find out potential health risks in children as early as possible.
Conditions such as weak sight and attention disorder will be much easier to control and cure if it's diagnosed before six or seven years old.
When parents take their child here, they'll see one big clinic room.
Behind the scenes is a sophisticated electronic medical record system, linked to Minhang District's own electronic health cards.
By now, 98 percent of children in the district already have their medical records encoded in their health cards.
Before taking the exam, they insert their card into a reading device, and the results of all the tests will be fed into the child's file.
After that, all the information will be sent to the community doctors for comparison and diagnosis.
If the results are serious, the child can get further examination treatment immediately in the health center.
In the future, there are plans to introduce reservation systems so that parents can book clinic appointments over the Internet.
And if the first room runs well, more exam sites will be set up all over the district.
If you want to know this, you can take your child to the first child health clinic in China at Minhang Health Center for Women and Children and take a free exam. From June 1, the clinic has been opened to the public.
In the traditional form of China's child care, only children under three years old are entitled to hospital health exams.
When the child reaches four, parents have to wait until the result of basic measurements such as height and weight when a child enters school.
Other health problems rarely become apparent unless a child is taken to hospital with an acute illness.
Preventive care
Now, the new child health clinic may change the situation.
It offers services for children ranging from four to 16, and the exam covers more than 10 indicators of health, physically and mentally, such as blood pressure, eyesight, hearing, attention span and Internet addiction.
When doing the exam, doctors of the health center will also guide the testing process, explain the results to parents and offer professional advice.
According to doctors, it's very important to find out potential health risks in children as early as possible.
Conditions such as weak sight and attention disorder will be much easier to control and cure if it's diagnosed before six or seven years old.
When parents take their child here, they'll see one big clinic room.
Behind the scenes is a sophisticated electronic medical record system, linked to Minhang District's own electronic health cards.
By now, 98 percent of children in the district already have their medical records encoded in their health cards.
Before taking the exam, they insert their card into a reading device, and the results of all the tests will be fed into the child's file.
After that, all the information will be sent to the community doctors for comparison and diagnosis.
If the results are serious, the child can get further examination treatment immediately in the health center.
In the future, there are plans to introduce reservation systems so that parents can book clinic appointments over the Internet.
And if the first room runs well, more exam sites will be set up all over the district.
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