City celebrates Medical Workers' Day
Officials with Shanghai Health Commission offer festival greetings to doctors on China's second Medical Workers' Day.
Shanghai has registered nearly 75,000 doctors, including 57 foreigners, the Shanghai Health Commission announced on Monday, China's second Medical Workers' Day.
Among the 74,948 doctors, 55.47 percent are women, the commission said. More than 9,000 are traditional Chinese medical doctors, and 2,296 are pediatricians.
About 35 percent are postgraduates.
In Shanghai, the department of internal medicine has the largest number of doctors, while the tuberculosis department have the fewest, according to the commission.
The Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital had the largest number of outpatients in a day this year, hitting 19,422 in late March. Zhongshan Hospital had last year's highest daily figure at 19,568.
To mark Medical Workers' Day, eight teams comprising more than 400 doctors in the city provided clinical services and health education at hospitals in places such as Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Tibet’s second-largest city of Shigatse and Guoluo Prefecture in Qinghai Province.
