Founded in 1944, the Pediatric Internal Medicine Department of the Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children (Women and Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University), or CQHCWC, boasts 43 patient beds. It has an outpatient service area spanning more than 600 square meters, offering around 200,000 outpatient services annually.

It provides services covering general pediatrics, children's night emergencies, and specialty clinics for asthma and allergies, endocrinology, digestion and nutrition, as well as pediatric Chinese medicine. The department offers diagnosis and treatment for common children's diseases, such as respiratory infections, diarrhea, gastroenteritis, indigestion, and common febrile diseases.

It also boasts rich experience in children's specialized diseases, such as asthma, chronic cough, allergic diseases, urticaria, eczema, growth and development retardation, neonatal pathological jaundice, neonatal pneumonia, precocious puberty, pubertal developmental variation, growth hormone deficiency, short stature, childhood obesity, as well as autoimmune thyroid disease.

At present, the department offers diagnosis and treatment services including desensitization treatment, pulmonary function monitoring series, fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) testing, allergen testing, intelligent atomization, growth hormone/sex hormone stimulation testing, as well as traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) external treatment, among others.

With its level of medical technology ranking at the forefront of Chongqing, the department has been honored as the city's key specialty for children's common diseases prevention and control, a regional demonstration center for children's asthma standardized clinic, a children's asthma standardization management appropriate technology promotion unit, a training base for pediatric medical workers in impoverished areas of Chongqing, as well as a practice base of the Chongqing Medical University and the Chongqing Medical and Pharmaceutical College.

It has successfully declared 15 scientific research projects and published 19 papers, of which six have been collected by the Science Citation Index (SCI). In 2020, it won the Medical Science and Technology Award of the Chongqing Medical Association. To date, the department has held five sessions of the Children's Asthma and Pulmonary Function Respiratory Forum, as well as one session of the Forum on Prevention and Treatment of Children's Allergic Diseases.

Technical expertise

Asthma/Allergy Specialty: As a regional demonstration center for children's asthma standardized clinic and a children's asthma standardization management appropriate technology promotion unit, the department was the first to carry out the whole process of standardized management of children's asthma and desensitization treatment in Chongqing. More than 5,300 asthma cases have been established, and the children's asthma control rate is 93.25 percent, ranking among the best in the country.

Endocrinology Specialty: It offers diagnosis and treatment of precocious puberty, short stature, growth hormone deficiency, pubertal developmental variation, childhood obesity, congenital hypothyroidism, and autoimmune thyroid disease, as well as undertakes related research work.

Digestion/Nutrition Specialty: For common digestive tract and nutritional diseases in children, the department offers diagnosis and treatment of functional gastrointestinal tract diseases, food allergies, chronic diarrhea, hematochezia, and other related medical issues. It also provides nutritional status evaluations and feeding guidance for children with intrauterine growth retardation and premature babies.

Pediatric TCM Specialty: The department is adept at the use of TCM for oral administration, combined with TCM bathing, sticking therapy, auricular acupoint pressing bean method, and other TCM characteristic therapies to treat various common diseases in pediatrics, especially respiratory, digestive, and skin diseases.

Experts of Pediatric Second Department