Chapter 817 Entering the High-end Medical Market
After dinner, Yu Zhiming rushed to the oncology inpatient building. Tonight, there were two cancerous tissue resection surgeries for advanced cancer patients waiting for him to assist.
As for Gu Qingran, he came to the director's office in the comprehensive office building and discussed with Director Li Yao, Vice Director Tan, Director Yang Mai and others who were waiting there, how to deal with the poaching and competition in Jingcheng Hospital.
"President Li, what are the higher-ups' opinions on the aggressive influx of foreign medical capital into our country and the opening of private hospitals?"
Li Yao replied softly, "Welcome."
"Opening up to the outside world and attracting investment are our country's basic national policies, and the country will not make major changes in this regard."
After a pause, Li Yao continued, "Also, Director Yang, please tell Dean Gu some data."
As he spoke, Yang Mai flipped open a small notebook and read in a deep voice, "The scale of my country's overseas medical intermediary market is developing rapidly. Last year, it exceeded 20 billion for the first time, and the number of people seeking medical treatment overseas exceeded one million."
"Ninety-nine percent of overseas medical treatment destinations are the United States, the United Kingdom, island nations and Germany."
"Relevant statistics show that the market size of China's overseas medical services has reached 100 billion...US dollars."
Li Yao took over and sighed, "This is a market size of $100 billion. It's enough to show that many wealthy people in our country don't trust the level of domestic medical care and services."
"Kaiser Permanente's investment in my country's high-end medical care is based on its interest in this huge piece of the pie."
"For our country, their investment in high-end medical care can allow more wealthy people to stay in the country for treatment and consumption."
Gu Qingran chuckled and said, "That means we can only rely on our own abilities to deal with poaching and competition."
After a pause, he smiled and asked, "President Li, regarding the Zhiming Medical Center I proposed, what is the result of your discussion?"
Li Yao sighed softly, "The other three hospitals each have their own ulterior motives. After all, they're using Dr. Yu's name, and they're worried that while they're contributing, they're actually doing a disservice to Huashan Hospital."
Gu Qingran smiled gently.
This result was also within his expectations.
In China, unless there is a strong push from higher-level leadership, it is extremely difficult for peer units to push competing units to cooperate to accomplish something.
Gu Qingran then said, "Today, on behalf of Dr. Yu, I have reached a cooperation with a doctor from the University of Tokyo Hospital. He will bring cancer patients from the island country here for treatment."
"The treatment costs are 200 million yen per person, plus a wild ginseng tree that's over 50 years old."
"While our country's wealthy are fleeing abroad, foreign patients are attracted by Dr. Yu's reputation. It's quite eye-catching, isn't it?"
Gu Qingran looked at Li Yao, Vice President Tan, and Yang Mai, who were all silent, and said slowly, "The other three hospitals have many concerns, but we at Ning'an have no concerns."
"Why don't we cooperate and establish the Zhiming International Medical Center and make a ton of money from the foreigners?"
Li Yao frowned and said, "I'm afraid Doctor Yu doesn't have the extra time and energy to take on extra work, right?"
Gu Qingran looked around and said, "The research progress of the very early stage cancer project can be said to be fruitful."
"Before, screening 50 people would only reveal one or two cancerous patients by sheer luck."
"But now, we can reliably screen out three to five cancer patients each time, or even more."
"This is a testament to the tremendous dedication of the project team. As far as I know, to select these 50 volunteers, they had to conduct at least two tests on hundreds of high-risk cancer patients. The workload is enormous, and many people haven't been able to rest properly for months."
"If this continues, their bodies won't be able to support it."
After a pause, Gu Qingran suggested, "I propose that your hospital only screen suspected liver cancer patients, while ours will be responsible for screening suspected stomach cancer patients. Just like with suspected breast cancer patients, we will only screen fifty patients each week for Dr. Yu to perform the final examination."
"Screening out fifty people in a week allows project team members to get adequate rest time and improves efficiency."
"For Dr. Yu, this means one less examination per week, freeing up an hour and a half of his time."
Yang Mai questioned, "You can't get much done in this free hour and a half, right?"
Gu Qingran said with a smile, "For Doctor Yu, this is enough for him to perform a full-body examination on fifteen to twenty people."
"With the strong support of Huashan Hospital and our Ning'an Hospital expert team, if there were fifty international and wealthy patients who came for treatment a week ago, could five of them have needed Dr. Yu's assistance in diagnosing them?"
Yang Mai questioned again, "Most of those who come here for Dr. Yu's reputation are cancer patients, right?"
Gu Qingran smiled softly and said, "There are strict quotas for patients with advanced cancer. This is mainly to attract high-end foreign talent to work in our country."
Then, he vaguely talked about the relevant departments' assistance in searching for information on high-end talents suffering from cancer abroad.
Li Yao and the others present understood immediately after hearing this.
Li Yao asked, "Who are those two foreigners?"
Gu Qingran said frankly: "One is a mathematician and the other is a metal materials expert. Both are high-end talents that our country needs."
Li Yao nodded and said thoughtfully, "By establishing this Zhiming International Medical Center, we can make Dr. Yu more famous internationally and thus attract more international talent?"
Gu Qingran nodded and said, "Yes, we need a formal and legal institution that foreign patients can trust. This will make it much more persuasive."
"I don't have to worry about being beaten up or taken away for questioning by secret services when I go abroad."
Amidst the chuckles, Vice President Tan spoke up, "There's another practical issue. We at Huashan are currently short on beds and offices, and we don't have any extra space to build this international medical center."
"Foreigners and wealthy people spend so much money, they can't afford to provide shabby hospital ward conditions, right?"
Gu Qingran laughed and said, "The temporary solution is to hang up a Zhiming International Medical Center sign at Zhizhen Building."
"Those patients come here to get treatment. As long as they can get better treatment, they won't be too picky about the hardware conditions."
"Of course, for the sake of long-term development..."
Gu Qingran paused deliberately for a moment and then said, "President Li, Vice President Tan, Director Yang, Huashan Hospital is a long-established and powerful hospital. Due to its limited location, it is almost impossible for it to expand to the surrounding areas."
"Our Ning'an Group has a large plot of land next to Ning'an Lake, which is barely enough to build a branch."
These words made Li Yao and the others quite excited.
They all had the idea of building Huashan Second Hospital, but they were limited by funding and it was difficult to find a suitable location.
Li Yao asked meaningfully, "President Gu, aren't you worried that since Huashan Second Hospital is built on the shores of Ning'an Lake, patients won't go to Ning'an Hospital anymore?"
Gu Qingran smiled and said, "So, we need to develop in a staggered manner."
"For example, Huashan Second Hospital doesn't have an outpatient department or emergency department, nor does it have regular beds. Is it a high-end medical facility that provides medical services to international friends and wealthy people?"
Li Yao frowned again and said, "It's just that we are a public hospital. How can we turn away ordinary patients like this?"
Gu Qingran chuckled and said, "So Huashan Second Hospital is a joint-stock hospital that cooperates with our Ning'an."
"The government wants wealthy people to stay in the country to seek medical treatment. There's no reason why the higher authorities wouldn't approve or support a hospital with such a clear positioning and strength."
Li Yao tapped his fingers on the coffee table, pondered for a moment, and then spoke aloud, "Jingcheng Hospital is leveraging international medical capital to expand into the high-end medical market nationwide. There's no reason for us to just passively defend. Actively attacking is the best defense."
"Most importantly, we have Doctor Yu Zhiming, a powerful weapon that no one can resist."
He decided, "Let's make a preliminary plan first, and I'll go to the higher-ups to get their support..."
Yu Zhiming finished his work for the day and returned to his home in Junshan Mansion at around ten o'clock in the evening.
When he returned home, he found that Feng Sisi was there again.
"Brother-in-law, I'm going to the hospital tomorrow to get a bone marrow donation mobilization shot. I have to take it for five consecutive days."
This so-called mobilization needle mobilizes hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow into the peripheral blood.
It needs to be injected once a day, and hematopoietic stem cells will be collected after three to five days.
During the collection process, whole blood is collected from the donor's arm vein, and then hematopoietic stem cells are extracted through a blood cell separator, while other blood components are returned to the donor's body.
A separation takes three or four hours.
To collect a sufficient number of stem cells, one to three collection and separation procedures are usually required.
Yu Zhiming encouraged him, "Even though you have to endure some hardship and suffering, you are saving a life, which is a great merit."
Feng Sisi hummed and said, "Brother-in-law, I have learned that the other party is a little girl who is only eleven years old."
"I hope that this time her treatment will be successful, that she can grow up healthy, get married and have children."
The next moment, she said with a lively tone: "Cousin-in-law, that guy has been diagnosed with Klinefelter's syndrome."
"You are truly amazing, you are indeed a genius doctor."
Yu Zhiming laughed and said, "It's mainly because that person's appearance is too typical, exactly like what's described in the textbook..."
Aunt Qiu prepared chicken wonton soup as a midnight snack tonight.
She also told Yu Zhiming that she would be happy to go to Teacher Qi's house on Thursday to prepare a dinner and earn an extra thousand yuan.
Yu Zhiming had not finished a big bowl of wontons when he received a call from his university teacher Ning Zhenye.
As soon as the call was connected, Teacher Ning's excited voice came out from the phone.
"Zhiming, he's accepted. I just received a call from my son saying he received an email from Oriental Hospital proposing admission."
"So soon?"
Yu Zhiming was a little surprised. He went for the interview in the afternoon, but the result came out that evening?
Ning Zhenye said on the phone, "We didn't expect the results to come out so quickly. The email also notified him to go to Oriental Hospital for the recruitment physical examination this Friday."
"Zhiming, this must be all because of your kindness. I don't know how to express my gratitude to you for the moment."
"Zhiming, when are you free these days? I must treat you to a nice meal to express my gratitude."
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