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The first hospital affiliated to Harbin Medical University celebrated its 60th founding anniversary last Saturday.
Established in 1949, the hospital is currently the largest medical center of its kind in Heilongjiang Province, integrating clinical work, education and scientific research.
It has many nation-renowned specialties in China, including the Cardiovascular Department, Neurology Department and Hematology Department.
With 3100 beds, the hospital accommodated almost 1.6 million patients and conducted 800,000 operations in 2008.
With state of art clinic technology, the hospital has successfully conducted liver, spleen and intestines transplants and the first tube baby in northeast China was also born in the hospital, which also leads the leukemia treatment in the country.
On the celebration ceremony, the hospital honored 15 of its senior experts with Special Award to commemorate their contribution to the hospital over the past years.
In its 60 years history, the hospital also demonstrates its commitment to social responsibility by providing free medical treatment for low-income groups in Tibet and the province. It also sent six medical teams to the quake devastated regions in Sichuan last year, helping the disaster relief efforts.
As part of its founding anniversary celebration, the hospital also inaugurated a new memorial medical center named after Dr. Wu Lien-tech, who is regarded as the first person to modernize China's medical services and medical education.
In the winter of 1910, Dr. Wu Lien-teh was invited to travel to Harbin to investigate an unknown disease, which killed over 99% of its victims. This turned out to be the beginning of the large pneumonic plague pandemic of Manchuria and Mongolia, which ultimately claimed 60,000 victims. Wu helped control the plague by asking to cremate plague victims and the suppression of this pandemic changed medical progress in China.
The new center will employ retired experts of the hospital to offer medical services.
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