Edited by Andie (Xi Yue)

Shaoxing Campus of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital (SRRSH), affiliated with Zhejiang University School of Medicine, opened its operating rooms on July 16, to better meet the people’s requirements in medical services.

“Having heard that the operating rooms in Shaoxing Campus are about to open, I made an early appointment for laparoscopic cholecystectomy !” said the first surgical patient, Mr. Wang (not his real name). On the morning of July 16, expectant Mr. Wang received the first surgery operated in Shaoxing Campus. The 30-minute operation was smoothly performed by Dr. Yu Hong, Vice President of SRRSH and the Chief Physician at the General Surgery Department.

There are 44 operating rooms in Shaoxing Campus, including outpatient operating rooms, negative pressure operating rooms, and inpatient operating rooms. Among them, there are 1 hybrid operation room, 2 hybrid operating rooms equipped with CT, 2 with intraoperative MRI, 1 robotic surgery operating room, and 2 cardiac/transplant operating rooms. It is expected that 27 operating rooms in the first phase will be put into operation gradually.

On the first day when the operating rooms in Shaoxing Campus opened, 12 operations were performed successfully, including laparoscopic surgery, hysteroscopy, minimally invasive posterior lumbar decompression and fusion, and breast surgery. SRRSH’s strength, minimally invasive medicine, has safeguarded people’s health. 7 experts from the General Surgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Oncology, and Anesthesiology Departments stayed in Shaoxing Campus to ensure patients' health and well-being.

Shaoxing Campus will use the SRRSH model in a manner that suits local conditions. Experts and treatment teams are sent to Shaoxing Campus to carry out procedures and renowned doctor clinics will be opened regularly. The hospital strives to open all its outpatient clinics on the new campus and share quality medical resources with it, contributing SRRSH’s efforts to the well-being of Shaoxing residents.

President of Shaoxing Campus, Dr. Liu Limin, said that SRRSH has shifted its treatment model, from patients running after renowned doctors to specialists coming to patients. Shaoxing Campus is symbolic of SRRSH’s integrated management and compassionate medical services, which have the same standards among different campuses.