Tongren Municipal Health Bureau

The Tongren Municipal Health and Health Bureau implements the policies and decisions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Provincial Committee, and the Municipal Committee regarding health and health work. In the course of fulfilling its duties, it upholds and strengthens the Party's centralised and unified leadership over health and health work. Its primary responsibilities are:

(1) To implement the national and provincial policies, guidelines, and laws and regulations on health and wellness work; to formulate and implement the city's health and wellness plan in accordance with the national, provincial, and municipal health and wellness resource allocation plans. To formulate and implement policies and measures to promote the equalisation, universality, and convenience of basic public health and wellness services, as well as the extension of public resources to grassroots levels.

(2) Coordinate and promote the deepening of medical and health system reform, and implement major policies, measures, and initiatives for deepening medical and health system reform. Organise and implement comprehensive reforms of public hospitals, promote the separation of management and operations, improve modern hospital management systems, formulate and implement policies and measures to promote the diversification of healthcare service providers and service delivery methods, and propose suggestions on medical service and drug pricing policies.

(3) Formulate and implement disease prevention and control plans, immunisation plans, and intervention measures for public health issues that seriously endanger people's health. Enforce the list of quarantinable infectious diseases and monitored infectious diseases. Be responsible for health emergency response, and implement the prevention and control of public health emergencies and medical and health rescue for various types of public emergencies.

(4) Coordinate the implementation of policies and measures to address population ageing, and be responsible for promoting the construction of a health service system for the elderly and the integration of medical care and elderly care.

(5) Implement national drug policies and the national essential drugs system, strengthen supervision and management of clinical drug use in medical institutions, and take relevant emergency control measures for confirmed serious adverse drug reactions or drug-related adverse events. Organise relevant departments to assist in collecting information and materials related to food safety risk monitoring and assessment.

(6) Supervise and manage public health matters within its jurisdiction, including occupational health, radiation health, environmental health, school health, public place health, and drinking water health. Supervise the prevention and control of infectious diseases and improve the comprehensive health supervision system.

(7) Supervise the implementation of management measures for medical institutions and the medical services industry, and establish a medical services evaluation and supervision system. Work with relevant departments to formulate and implement qualification standards for health and wellness professionals. Implement medical service norms, standards, and professional practice rules and service norms for health and wellness professionals.

(8) Be responsible for family planning management and services, conduct population monitoring and early warning, propose policy recommendations related to population and family development, and improve family planning policies.

(9) Guide local health and wellness work, guide the construction of grassroots medical and health care, maternal and child health service systems, and general practitioner teams. Promote the development of health and wellness science and technology innovation.

(10) Be responsible for the planning and supervision of privately-run medical institutions.

(11) Be responsible for the medical care of municipal-level health care recipients and for medical and health care services for important meetings and major events.

(12) In conjunction with departmental responsibilities, carry out relevant work related to military-civilian integration and poverty alleviation; increase investment in science and technology, enhance scientific and technological innovation capabilities, and provide support for promoting innovation-driven development; be responsible for work safety and fire safety in this department and industry; carry out relevant work related to big data development and application and government data resource management in accordance with regulations, and promote the standardised management, sharing, and openness of departmental government data resources in accordance with the law.

(13) Propose opinions and suggestions on strengthening party building work in hospitals across the city, and evaluate the quality of party building work in hospitals.

(14) Guide the business operations of the Municipal Family Planning Association.

(15) Complete other tasks assigned by the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government, and Provincial Health Commission.