Healthcare

By the end of 2024, there were 57,650 healthcare institutions in Hunan. Among them, there were 1,762 hospitals, 138 maternal and child health centers, 62 specialized disease prevention and treatment centers, 1,998 township health centers, 1,102 community health service centers, 14,820 clinics, and 35,521 village clinics. The number of medical technical personnel totaled 567,000, down by 0.6 percent over the previous year. Among them, there were 223,000 licensed doctors and licensed assistant doctors, and 264,000 registered nurses. Hospitals had 387,000 beds, a decrease of 0.8 percent, while township health centers had 104,000 beds, a decrease of 1.3 percent.

Cooperative Medical Services

The Hunan Provincial People’s Government and the National Health Commission reached an agreement on jointly building a national medical center and a regional medical center in April 2021.

Ten high-level hospitals in Hunan will participate in the co-building tasks: 

- The National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, and the Brain Hospital of Hunan Province, will found a national psychologic medical center; 

- The Xiangya Hospital, Second Xiangya Hospital, and Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, and the Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, will jointly build a comprehensive regional medical center; 

- The Xiangya Hospital of Central South University will lead to establish a regional medical center for neurology, orthopedics, and respiration; 

- The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University will join hands with the Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital to construct a regional medical center for senile diseases, and with the Changsha Municipal First Hospital to build a regional medical center for infectious diseases; and, 

- The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University and the Hunan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital will found a regional medical center for maternal and child health care.

Chinese sources: hunan.gov.cn; official website of Hunan Statistics Bureau 

Updated in July 2025