APF General Hospital fills seven domestic gaps

The General Hospital of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force (APF) has filled seven domestic gaps since it began the medical research on modern rescue ten years ago, the reporters learned on August 19, 2012 at the 10th China (International) Modern Rescue Medical Forum Conference.

According to a briefing, the China (International) Modern Rescue Medical Forum hosted by the General Hospital of the APF with the assistance of the China Association for Disaster and Emergency Rescue Medicine (CADERM) and the China Association for Disaster Prevention (CADP), was established in the wake of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the year 2003.

As an important component of China's disaster rescue forces and the China International Search and Rescue Team, the General Hospital of the APF has successively dispatched medical teams to participate in major disaster rescue work at home and abroad for 21 times and filled the gap in the field of disaster rescue medicine for many times in the past ten years.

The General Hospital of the APF has achieved several firsts: it self-developed China's first vehicle-mounted field hospital, built China's first information bank of medical rescue system of major natural disasters, established the first national institute of medical rescue and the CADERM, founded the first medicine magazine specializing in national disaster rescue, and published the first disaster rescue medicine monograph, etc.