Hospital Introduction

The Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center (affiliated with Guangzhou Medical University, also known as Guangzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital and Guangzhou Children's Hospital) is the a public tertiary hospital specializing in women and children's health. It integrates prevention, medical treatment, healthcare, scientific research, and education. In the Fudan University hospital rankings, its pediatric surgery ranks fourth nationally, and its pediatric internal medicine ranks eighth. Approved by the National Health Commission, it has been designated as the National Children's Regional Medical Center (Central South).

Currently, the Medical Center has five campuses in the central urban area of Guangzhou, with a total of 2,400 approved beds. To support the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promote cooperation in maternal and child health between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, the Center developed a new campus in Nansha District, which will have 780 beds and is expected to open in 2024.

In 2023, the hospital had approximately 4.56 million outpatient and emergency visits, discharged 143,000 patients, and performed 98,622 surgeries. Among these patients, 30% came from outside Guangdong, primarily serving the provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Guangxi in the Central South region. It hosts 5 national clinical key specialties, including pediatrics for respiratory diseases, digestive diseases, surgery, neonatology, and genetics and endocrinology (rare diseases), as well as 10 high-level clinical key specialties in Guangdong Province. The Center has strong capabilities in heart transplantation, stem cell transplantation, gene therapy, Da Vinci robotic surgery for children, interventional surgery, fetal medicine, prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases, and artificial intelligence in pediatric medicine.

The Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center is at the forefront of scientific research in maternal and child health both internationally and domestically. It has established the Guangzhou Birth Cohort Study, one of the largest maternal and child cohort research platforms in the world. It possesses a biobank of international standards with a million-level sample size, and is home to Guangdong Provincial Center for Early Childhood Development Application Engineering Technology, the Guangdong Provincial Center for Children Clinical Research and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Structural Birth Defect Disease. 

Leveraging its affiliation with Guangzhou Medical University, the center formally established a Pediatrics College in 2016. In 2022, its pediatrics program was approved as a national first-class undergraduate major construction site. As one of the first national standardized training bases for resident doctors, the center currently hosts 11 standardized Residency Training programs and 2 fellowship training program.

The Center places a strong emphasis on international exchange and cooperation, serving as a national training base for maternal and child health under the Belt and Road Initiative. It has established deep cooperative relationships with 15 internationally renowned universities and hospitals, including Boston Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Children's Mercy Kansas City, and the National Children's Hospital in the United States. It has also established the "Guangzhou-Birmingham Women and Children's Cohort Study Joint Center" with the University of Birmingham in the UK. Since 2020, aiming to cultivate international academic leadership, the Center has cooperated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to launch a Sino-US pediatric academic training program, which has held four sessions to date and graduated 58 students. In the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area cooperation, it has signed agreements with the Kiang Wu Hospital and the San Januario Hospital in Macao, establishing a comprehensive cooperation in medical education and research, and has been honored with the "Top Ten Cases for Shaping a Healthy Bay Area" award by Guangdong Province.