Do disease screening public welfare activities need to be reported?

It is clearly stated that the vast majority of disease screening public welfare activities that are carried out publicly to the public need to be reported as required. Only a very small number of loose and convenient tests that are targeted at a very small group of acquaintances, do not involve professional medical operations, and do not involve external resources, do not need to go through the official process.

Last year, I helped the subdistrict to take over the free cancer screening project for migrant women in the maternal and child hospital in the area. At the beginning, the grassroots charity team that organized it felt that it was purely doing charity and making no profit. Even the materials were purchased by themselves, so there was no need to go through the formalities. After setting up a stall in the dormitory area of the industrial park for a long time, the roll-up banners were not even secured when health and market supervision staff came to stop them. Fortunately, there was no trouble. They re-launched the stall three days after filling in the filing materials. Do you think it was unfair? Originally, I wanted to provide benefits to migrant sisters, but in the end, I almost ended up being accused of illegally conducting medical activities.

In fact, there have been different opinions on this issue in the industry. Many practitioners in small public welfare teams feel that when doing public welfare, they have few manpower and tight resources. If they even organize everyone to test blood sugar and have to report it at all levels, it will consume too much energy and dampen everyone's enthusiasm. Especially for small screenings that go to remote villages, it will take a long time to go to the county health bureau to report and report, which is really a hassle.

But the regulatory concerns are not unreasonable. I heard a negative case in the past two years: an unregistered private screening team went to the southwestern mountainous area to screen villagers for hepatitis B. The blood collection needles were reused and sterilized incorrectly, which almost caused cross-infection. Subsequently, the villagers who screened positive were The citizens’ information was packaged and sold to liver disease pharmaceutical companies from other places. In the end, the villagers couldn’t even find a responsible entity to defend their rights. You see, without going through the reporting process, even the most basic qualification review, operation standard supervision and responsibility tracing could not be done. In the end, the ordinary people who participated in the screening were the ones who suffered.

If you really want to carry out a formal screening project, the reporting process is actually not as complicated as everyone thinks. Generally, you only need to submit materials to the local health department 7 working days in advance. The core is a few key materials: the specific disease types and coverage of the screening, the professional qualification certificate of the participating medical care, and the certification of the testing institution. Relevant qualifications, personal information confidentiality plans, and emergency response plans in case of accidents such as allergies and needle fainting. If you want to enter a community, park, or village, you can also say hello to the local neighborhood committee, management committee, or village committee. As long as there are no problems with the materials, there will basically be no delays in approval.

Of course, there are exceptions. If a few familiar medical friends measure the blood pressure and blood oxygen of neighbors in a community pavilion on weekends, and do not openly recruit strangers to participate, nor collect any personal information, nor do they involve invasive or highly professional operations such as blood collection and filming, then there is really no need to go out of their way to report. It is enough to follow the operating procedures yourself.

Anyway, I have been exposed to so many public welfare screening projects, and I really recommend that you don’t find it troublesome to report. Going through the process is equivalent to providing an “official insurance” for the entire event. It is responsible not only for the people who participate in the screening, but also for the hosting public welfare team. It is always more cost-effective than having a good thing go wrong.