Investigation on status of secondary and tertiary care capacities of hospitals in public health emergencies in Beijing

Objective To understand the status of secondary and tertiary care capacities of hospitals in public healthe-mergencies in Beijing.Methods One hundced and fifty-three secondary and tertiary care hospitals in Beijing were surveyed by as tandardized questionnaire.Datarelated to hospital human resource and beds,emergency plan,laboratory diagnosis ca-pacity,medical treatment procedures and stockpiles of drugs were collected.Results Responses were received from 87.6% of 153 hospitals surveyed.96.3% of hospitals surveyed reported the emergency group established.Surgery beds accounted for 8.5% of all the licensed beds.93.3% of hospitals surveyed had emergency plan and none of them reported a laboratory able to isolate and identify a l.15 kinds of pathogens(vibrio cholera,infectious diarrhea,staphylococcus,salmonella,meningococcus,organic phosphorous pestic ides,brucella,influenza viruses,an thrax,H5N1 bird flu viruses,Yersinia pestis,Japanese encephalitis virus,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus,tetrame thylene-disulfonete tramine,and botulinum toxin).18.6% of the hospitals surveyed had medical treatment procedures for all 15 kinds of diseases.5.2% of them hads to redspecific drugs for treatment of 16 kinds of diseases(plague,cholera,human H5N1 bird flu,meningococcal meningitis,Japanese encephalitis,anthrax,influenza,brucellosis,infectious diarrhea,acute organop hosphorus poisonings,taphy lococcal food poisoning,salmonelleae food poisoning,tetrame thylene-disulfonetetramine poisoning,botulinum tox in poisoning,and cyanide poisoning).Conclusion Hospitals'medical treatment capacities for public healtheme rgencies should be improved.