Challenges for the surgical capacity building of township hospitals among the Central China: a retrospective study

• Main Authors: Zhong Li (Author), Jian Yang (Author), Yue Wu (Author), Zijin Pan (Author), Xiaoqun He (Author), Boyang Li (Author), Liang Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background China's rapid transition in healthcare service system has posed considerable challenges for the primary care system. Little is known regarding the capacity of township hospitals (THs) to deliver surgical care in rural China with over 600 million lives. We aimed to ascertain...