China is the first country in the world to establish a hospital. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, the plague was prevalent along the Yellow River. Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, set up medical clinics in various places, equipped with doctors and medicines, to treat the people free of charge.

In the second year of Emperor Yuan of Han Ping (AD 2), "people suffering from diseases and epidemics leave their homes to buy medicine", just like the isolation hospital now. The above two historical facts are contained in Hanshu. In the twenty-first year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 497), Emperor Xiaowen once set up a "other room" in Luoyang for the people to take medicine. There was a "patient's workshop" in the Sui Dynasty to accommodate leprosy patients. In the 22nd year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty (AD 734), there were "wards" covering Chang 'an and Luoyang, as well as institutions such as Beisun Hospital and General Management Hospital, which took in poor disabled people and beggars.

In the Song and Ming Dynasties, the organization of hospitals became more and more thorough. At that time, the official hospital was called "Anjifang", the private hospital was called "nursing home" and "Shouan home", and the "kindness bureau" run by charities recruited and treated patients in different categories. During the Bao You period of the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1253- 1258), a man named Liu established a "Shou 'an Hospital" in Guangdong, which accommodated 10 people, with different boundaries. "Diagnosis must be done, medicine must be good, and cooking must be done." In addition, if you are cured, you will be funded to return to China, and you will be buried when you die. Europe is the earliest hospital organization, which was established in Rome for Christian women, more than five centuries later than China. In France, hospitals were established in Lyon and Paris in the 6th and 8th centuries, in Britain and in London in the 7th century. After the Middle Ages, a large number of hospitals were built in the Middle East and Europe.

The bourgeois revolution at the end of 18 made the hospital organization get rid of the religious shackles and achieved new development. The introduction of western medicine into China has promoted the development of medical and health undertakings in China. Arab medicine was introduced into China in Yuan Dynasty, and Guanghui Department was established in Beijing in 1270, and Hui Hui Medical Hospital was established in 1292, which is an Arab hospital and the earliest western medicine hospital and pharmacy in China. 1828, British missionary Gao Lizhi opened the first missionary hospital in Macao.

1834165438+10, an American missionary peter parker founded an eye hospital in Guangzhou, which was later renamed Ji Bo hospital. After the Opium War, 1949, there were more than 340 missionary hospitals all over the country. After liberation, with the progress of human beings and the development of science, China's medical and health undertakings have also developed rapidly. Hospital is a medical institution, whose main purpose is to diagnose and treat patients and care for them. It is a place with a certain number of beds and facilities to treat and prevent diseases and promote health for patients and specific people through the collective cooperation of medical staff.