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Chosen hospitals to be fit for Olympics
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-07-11 15:22 Doctors and other medical
staff in 20 hospitals in the Chinese capital will be able to communicate with
their patients and give their diagnoses in English by 2008, Beijing Olympic
organizers was quoted by the China Daily as saying.
The hospitals and the Beijing Emergency Medical Center were officially
approved by the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee on Sunday to serve
for the 2008 Games and Paralympic Games.
It will mean the hospitals raise their standards so they can provide the best
possible service for people from around the world during the Games.
"These hospitals will not only be places to take care of and treat patients,
but also a place to get a better understanding of people from other countries,"
said Liu Jingmin, deputy mayor of Beijing and executive vice-president of the
Organizing Committee of the Games of XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).
He was speaking during a signing ceremony between the hospitals and the
committee on Sunday.
The hospitals are also expected to provide other services such as
preferential treatment and reserved beds for visitors during the Games.
Staff and hospital facilities will also be used at a medical center to be
built in the Olympic Village, which will hold athletes, coaches and other
members of the Olympic Family.
"I hope the hospitals can reach international standards during the Games and
help Beijing to become a true international metropolis,"Liu said.
Organizers said they will set up an efficient medical network which will see
a medical station every 800 meters in the city, allowing every 15,000 people to
have one medical station during the Games.
The stations will provide basic medical aid to people with Olympic tickets,
free of charge, before transferring to big hospitals if necessary.
The organizers said Olympic duties will not affect the hospitals' daily
operations, treating Beijing citizens. "Based on the experiences of previous
Olympic host cities, the number of visitors going to hospital during the Games
was not large," said Dai Jianping, deputy head of the Medical Services
Department of BOCOG.
The hospitals said they were ready to take up the
challenges ahead.
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