The Health Bureau (SSM) has established a “Emergency Medicine Training Centre” and a “Stroke Centre”, both of which were inaugurated during a one-day medical forum hosted by the bureau on Saturday, according to an SSM statement that day.
The medical forum was held at MGM MACAU in Nape.
The two centres were inaugurated by SSM Director Alvis Lo Iek Long and other officials during a plaque-unveiling ceremony, which was part of Saturday’s medical forum.
With the concept of “First Aid Learning for the Whole Population”, the statement said, the Emergency Medicine Training Centre is committed to creating multifaceted, systematic, and practical training courses aimed at healthcare professionals, rescue workers, educators, and residents in general.
The centre’s courses are designed in accordance with international first-aid guidelines and clinical evidence, combining simulation teaching and scenario-based exercises to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration and clinical response capabilities, thereby improving overall emergency response capacities and service quality.
Regarding community promotion, the Emergency Medicine Training Centre will focus on popularising cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillators (AEDs) through cooperation with schools, businesses, and community associations, so as to gradually build a “first-aid friendly community”.
In the future, the Emergency Medicine Training Centre will coordinate the sensible distribution and accessibility of AEDs in public venues, creating a citywide emergency support network, reducing the golden time for rescue, and increasing the success rate of pre-hospital care.
The statement said that the establishment of the Stroke Centre aims to provide stroke patients with rapid, professional, and standardised treatment services, reducing the time between the onset of symptoms and treatment, and improving the success rate of acute treatment.
The Stroke Centre has been built in strict accordance with national and international standards for stroke centres, equipped with advanced diagnostic imaging equipment and vascular interventional treatment systems, and features a 24-hour green channel for strokes. This aims to improve the success rate of emergency treatments such as intravenous thrombolysis* and arterial thrombectomy**, and reduce patient disability and mortality rates.
In the future, the seamless connection between pre-hospital emergency care and hospital treatment will be optimised, operating in tandem with the bureau’s chest pain centre to enhance Macau’s capacity to treat acute and severe cases, the statement said.
The statement did not mention where the two new centres are located.
* Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) is a time-critical medical treatment used to dissolve dangerous blood clots in blood vessels, restore blood flow, and prevent tissue damage. – Gemini
** An arterial thrombectomy is an emergency surgical or interventional procedure to physically remove a blood clot (thrombus) directly from inside an artery. – Gemini
Health Bureau (SSM) Director Alvis Lo Iek Long (second from right), Zhao Heqing (second from left), deputy head of the Social Development Department of the Central People’s Government Liaison Office, Fire Services Bureau (CB) Deputy Commissioner Cheong Chi Wang (right), and Tai Wa Hou, acting director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, pose for a photo after unveiling the inaugural plaque of the new Emergency Medicine Training Centre and the Stroke Centre during Saturday’s ceremony at MGM MACAU in Nape. – Photo: SSM
