The report meeting on the sixth Prenatal Ultrasound Screening Workshop was successfully held at Chongqing Health Center for Woman and Children on Dec 19, according to CQHCWC officials. 

It was co-hosted by the CQHCWC and the Prenatal Ultrasound Screening Training Base in Chongqing city in southwestern China. 

Tang Xuyan, deputy director of the Department of Maternal and Child Health of the Chongqing Municipal Health Committee; Wang Jian, secretary of the Party Committee of the CQHCWC and Zhang Hua, president of the health center, attended the meeting. 

A number of participants in the sixth Prenatal Ultrasound Screening Workshop also attended the event. 

Ran Suzhen, director of the Ultrasound Department of the CQHCWC, reported on the current situation concerning prenatal ultrasounds in various hospitals in the city and gave a detailed presentation about the issues related to follow-up training and the quality control of the treatment. 

Ran said follow-up training and quality control work will be pushed forward by CQHCWC and the Chongqing Prenatal Ultrasound Screening Training Base, covering all districts and counties in the city. 

The participants from the workshop said that after three months of theoretical and operational training they had made decisions about their future career paths.

They said the CQHCWC presented them not only with professional skills, but also with an exemplary work attitude of diligence and rigor. They added that this attitude would encourage them to make their own contributions to the reduction of the city's birth defects. 

The Department of Maternal and Child Health’s Tang Xuyan pointed out that all the participants must fulfill their duties as doctors and offer assistance to their peers.

The report meeting of the sixth Prenatal Ultrasound Screening Workshop is held at Chongqing Health Center for Woman and Children, or the CQHCWC, on Dec 19. [Photo by Chongqing Health Center for Woman and Children]

A group photo of participants of the sixth Prenatal Ultrasound Screening Workshop held at Chongqing Health Center for Woman and Children. [Photo by Chongqing Health Center for Woman and Children]