Joint hospital effort bolsters treatment

Taijiang residents more confident in local center since deal with university

Xie Jinqian was told his kidneys were failing 27 years ago, but he held off having surgery until last year at his local hospital, in impoverished Taijiang county, Guizhou province, because he was worried about the quality of care it offered.

Those concerns were dispelled after the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine - one of the top hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province - signed an agreement in April 2016 to jointly operate the hospital in Taijiang.