Fudan University Children's Hospital

Hairy Crab Charities has been supporting Fudan University's Childrens Hospital since our inital tournament in May 2000.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Fudan University Childrens Hospital is the main center for critical pediatrics cases in Shanghai as well as in all of east China. In 2007. year, more than 1000 cases were monitored and treated in ICU due to various critical situations, such as respiratory failure, heart failure, trauma and accident, shock, asthma and epilepsy.

A Summary About the Conditions of the ICU in the Fudan University Childrens Hospital :
Successes So Far and Challenges Ahead

For several years, with the financial support of the Hairy Crab Golf Tournament and the JMI Foundation, the Fudan University Childrens Hospital has been taking the lead throughout the country in such aspects as advanced medical instruments & apparatus, personnel training, and the level of medical treatment and curing as well as the service capacity. The general circumstances are summarized as follows:

The ICU has been equipped with Medical Instruments up to World Standard.

Prior to receiving this financial support, the equipment of the ICU could barely fill the requirements of clinical treatment. The quality and quantity of the equipment was not up to the minimum standard of a university teaching hospital. The hospital spent the first round of funding on two sets of full-function respirators, one set of portable respirator and one set of central monitoring system (covering the minimal amount of sick beds in the ward at the time.), fiber bronchoscope, automatic peritoneal dialyser, auricular defibrillator and some micro transfusion pumps, thus the equipment of the ICU had reached the required standard.

The Patients Transferring System & Curing Capacity have been Improved & Perfected

The next round of financing bought a fully heated and automated respirator used for the transfer of very sick infants within the hospital. Later the donations financed a high tech ambulance that, along with the mobile respirator allowed the hospital to transfer very sick patients from other hospitals into our ICU and surgical ward. Further financing allowed two nurses to study at St Marys Hospital of Hong Kong University. They were trained in mobile Intensive care, and this has allowed the hospital to render services of transferring and curing critical neonates in Shanghai Municipality, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and raised a lot the success rate of rescue as well. Up to now the hospital has successfully transferred and cured around 800 patients including the “Quadruplets” who are well-known throughout the country and the critical child from Taiwan which has aroused high attentions on both sides of Taiwan Straits. Thus the hospital has become the largest first-aid center of critical newborns in Shanghai and East China areas.

A Large Number of Medical Personnel throughout the country have been trained for Pediatric Rescue

The donations have not only benefited the ICU of the Children’s Hospital itself, but also allowed us to train a large number of medical personnel from everywhere of the country, especially from those outlying districts, so that still more sick children may enjoy the benefits of medical treatment and the hospital affiliated to a university can play its role better. Every year the hospital trains about 50 doctors and 30 nursing staff for ICU from the grass-roots hospitals and run three times of continuous study classes for doctors and nurses.

The Development and International Exchange

As a result of the financial aid from Hairy Crab Golf Tournament and the JMI Foundation and the hard work of the hospital staff, the ICU of the Children’s Hospital has turned into the pediatric rescue center. We treat the highest amount of patients with the most complicated diseases in Shanghai area and we are playing an important role in preventive treatment of SARS and Bird Flu.  We have won the enthusiastic praise from the government and the general population. Consequently, the ICU ward has been appointed as the key branch of learning, the key laboratory of the Ministry of Health and the financing base of Chinese Medical Board of America (CMB) for training the pediatricians from the grass-roots hospitals of China. At present the hospital cooperates with Canadian Neonates Federation in cultivating high quality doctors and nurses especially for the rescue of neonates for a long term. Also the hospital has run successfully three Shanghai International Pediatrics Symposiums. This is a major teaching event that brings together pediatric colleagues from all over China.

More Work Left To Do

We appreciate very much the efforts and the support of the people making these donations. They have had a major impact on people’s lives. We have a lot more work to do and future donations will allow us to reach out further and to gain new heights.

WU Jinglei

The First Aid Division of the Children’s Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University

April 2006

 

Jindezhen and Tai An Hospitals

In 2008, our goal is to include 2 new hospitals, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi and Tai An in Shandong. Fudan will serve as the training hospital for the others.