Expats from Madagascar, Cambodia and other countries are increasingly choosing Guangzhou Nansha for high-quality medical treatment, showing the district's rising strength in international healthcare services.
Guangdong has designated its first 25 hospitals to pilot international medical services, as the province seeks to better serve foreign nationals and cross-border patients after overseas patient visits rose by more than 20 percent last year.
Hospitals and research institutes in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, are expanding the clinical use of cell and gene therapies, with doctors reporting early results in a small number of patients with chronic conditions.
On Dec 22, the new comprehensive building of Nansha District People's Hospital and the Dagang Advanced Manufacturing Park Outpatient Department opened for operations.
The southern city of Foshan in Guangdong province has introduced real-name registration requirements for the purchase of fever and pain relief medications in response to a growing outbreak of Chikungunya fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease.
The construction tasks of the Nansha Second People's Hospital relocation project have been nearly completed.
Recently, the underground structure of the comprehensive building expansion project at the Nansha Third People's Hospital has been fully completed.
On Jan 5, Guangzhou First People's Hospital inaugurated the Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy Center at the Nansha Hospital campus.