The CQHCWC holds the 2022 health care training session for nursery institutions on Sept 9. [Photo/CQHCWC]

Entrusted by the Chongqing Municipal Health Commission, the Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children (Women and Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University), or CQHCWC, in Southwest China's Chongqing held the 2022 health care training session for nursery institutions on Sept 9.

Held online, the training was presided over by Wang Nianrong, director of the Children's Health Care Division, attracting the participation of more than 4,500 people, including related staff members from nursery institutions in various districts and counties of the city, as well as children's health care personnel from Sichuan, Henan, Yunnan, Beijing, and other provinces and municipalities.

Six experts gave lectures during the training on health and safety issues of children, such as common infectious diseases and frequent accidental injuries and the high prevalence of dental caries in nursery institutions.

The experts included Xu Yiqun, associate researcher of the National Center for Women and Children's Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Xu Hongmei, director of the Infectious Disease Department of the Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, and Ding Xianbin, director of the Institute of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control of the Chongqing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The topics ranged from how to do a good job in the health care management of nursery institutions, oral issues that pediatric care physicians should pay attention to, and prevention and management of common infectious diseases in children, to sanitation and disinfection in nursery institutions and COVID-19 prevention.

Health care work at nursery institutions is an important part of health care work for children aged 6 and under. The training session was believed to not only improve health care work in the city's nursery institutions, but also provide a strong talent guarantee for improving the health care services of the nursery institutions in the city.