China's trial of "Internet hospitals", which has grown rapidly since its initial launch in late 2014 to over 1000 sites in Guangdong province, is in serious danger of failing, unless the health service addresses the overworking of doctors in hospitals, according to correspondence in top medical journal, The Lancet. Doctors simply have no time or energy to deal with the demands of the internet hospital, on top of their regular workload according to Yinhuan Hu and Zixia Zhang, citing figures that claim 72% of doctors in Chinese hospitals work overtime and 92% work over 60 hours per week on average. If the overworking is not rectified soon, the same overcrowding and delays that afflict regular hospitals will come to affect the Internet hospitals too.
China's trial of "Internet hospitals", which has grown rapidly since its initial launch in late 2014 to over 1000 sites in Guangdong province, is in serious danger of failing, unless the health service addresses the overworking of doctors in hospitals, according to correspondence in top medical journal, The Lancet. Doctors simply have no time or energy to deal with the demands of the internet hospital, on top of their regular workload according to Yinhuan Hu and Zixia Zhang, citing figures that claim 92% of doctors in Chinese hospitals work overtime and 72% work over 60 hours per week on average. If the overworking is not rectified soon, the same overcrowding and delays that afflict regular hospitals will come to affect the Internet hospitals too.