Author‧Journal Weekly Editorial Team
Somewhere in Zhonghe, New Taipei City, there is an outpatient counter hidden in an old apartment arcade, which is not particularly conspicuous at first glance. But if you go further inside, you will find a two-story operating room, where a team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and extracorporeal circulation technicians are concentrating on treating patients.
All preparations are to ensure the smooth success of this heart surgery, which cost more than one million Taiwan dollars. The patient they face is not a “human” patient, but a “pet patient”.
Qiu Xianjie, the director of Zuoan Animal Hospital who was in charge of performing the surgery, said that on average, one treatment can prolong the life of a pet patient by more than three years; so far, he has accumulated more than one million yuan for this heart surgery. 10 cases.
Not only cardiac surgery, but also liver tumor resection, pleural effusion surgery, airway plastic surgery, etc., for a variety of complex diseases, more and more owners travel thousands of miles to come here with sick pets. These “fur kids” loved by their owners are facing an era of rapid development in the evolution of pet medical gods.
Research firm ReportLinker pointed out that the global veterinary healthcare market is expected to grow from US$159.59 billion in 2021 to US$176.96 billion in 2022, and is expected to grow to US$252.05 billion (approximately NT$8 trillion) in 2026. Scale, the annual compound growth rate is as high as 9.2%.
If you spread out the specialized diagnosis of large animal hospitals like Nationwide, Ci’ai, and Zhongxing, from cardiology, neurology, ophthalmology, dentistry, oncology, all the way to endocrinology and even traditional Chinese veterinary medicine, its completeness is already comparable to that of human beings. Hospital classification.
Not only that, because the treatment of pet tumors is very difficult, in order to increase the success rate of surgery, the hospital must introduce higher-end equipment and manpower. “A pet is different from a human being. You can’t tell it ‘sit well and keep this position and don’t move’, and it will be obedient. Therefore, general anesthesia must be performed for every CT scan.” Qiu Xianjie explained, which also makes the anesthesia difficult. The teacher has become one of the necessary roles in the evolution of this pet medical god.
Furthermore, it is not easy for a veterinary hospital to maintain a CT. Compared with human hospitals, which can use CT nearly 30 times a day, “our (Left Bank Animal Hospital) uses it 30 times a month.” The reason is that the needs of the owners are not low. , but following all, each pet has to go through the process of general anesthesia, and different types of pets have different shooting time, resulting in the use of CT in animal hospitals, which is much lower than in human hospitals.
In the state of high equipment maintenance costs, additional but necessary anesthesia costs, and lack of health insurance system, the overall treatment cost is much higher than the price of human medical treatment. The willingness to pocket money, “Now we have tumor clinics every day, and many of them are pets over 15 years old who need treatment.” Qiu Xianjie said.
For the pet medical market, the aging trend of pets directly increases the two important demand variables of “total number of pets” and “morbidity of pets”.
As far as the total number of pets is concerned, the total population of Taiwan under the age of 15 will be 2.889 million in 2021, while the total number of cats and dogs in Taiwan in the same year has reached 2.958 million due to registered statistics alone. . In 2021, the number of pets in Taiwan will exceed the total population under the age of 15.
According to statistics from the Council of Agriculture, by the end of 2021, the total number of “veterinary medical institutions” in Taiwan will reach 1,790. At the same time, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, there will be 1,673 “pediatric” medical institutions in Taiwan. In fact, since 2018, the phenomenon that “the number of animal hospitals exceeds that of pediatrics” has appeared for the first time. Since then, the gap between the two has continued to widen. By the end of 2021, the number of animal hospitals surpassed that of pediatrics by 117, setting a new high.
From a furry operating room with top-notch manpower and equipment, a heart surgery costing more than one million yuan and in constant demand, to various subspecialty medical technologies comparable to human level, and even the application of regenerative medicine, the gold content of furkids makes people The various business opportunities triggered by the humanization trend of pets have even more wild imagination space.For more content, please refer to the latest issue of “Weekly Today” (No. 1358)
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