China’s NHC issues guidelines for improved critical care medical services

The guidelines aim to provide 15 intensive-care hospital beds by 2025.

China's National Health Commission, along with other authorities, has issued a set of guidelines to improve critical care medical services capacity, focusing on providing 15 intensive-care hospital beds by the end of 2025.

The guidelines include comprehensive-use and discipline-specific intensive care unit (ICU) beds, and 10 hospital beds that can be converted for intensive care per 100,000 people.

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Moreover, the guidelines outline the need for future efforts to expand related professional teams.

The initiative aims to strengthen city and county intensive care medical services to respond to major public health emergencies.