(Combating New Coronary Pneumonia) Revisiting Wuhan Medical Institutions: General Outpatient Clinics in Some Hospitals Gradually Restore

China News Service, Wuhan, March 11th: Revisiting Wuhan medical institutions: General outpatient clinics in some hospitals are gradually recovering

China News Agency reporter Zhang Qin and Ma Furong

As the pressure on medical resources in Wuhan has gradually eased, some hospitals have resumed general outpatient clinics. A reporter from China News Agency recently visited a number of outpatient clinics in local hospitals and found that while ensuring the medical needs of patients with non-new coronary pneumonia, reasonable arrangements for medical procedures and ensuring the safety of patients have become the focus of attention of each hospital.

At Wuhan Asian Heart Hospital, located on Jinghan Avenue in Hankou, the reporter saw that patients who came to the clinic needed to undergo systemic disinfection and infrared thermography at the entrance of the outpatient hall. Before the official visit, they will also be assigned on the second floor. Before the consultation, you will be screened for epidemiological queries.

In order to prevent cross-infection, the consultation room implements a one-person-one consultation system, and the number of people entering the consultation room is strictly controlled. In the waiting area, the prompt "Please keep a distance of more than 1 meter" can be seen everywhere. Patients waiting to be seated are seated as far apart as possible.

Ye Hong, Managing Director of Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital, introduced that during the epidemic, the hospital sent out hot and emergency department to undertake the screening, exclusion and treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia and cardiovascular disease. As the epidemic situation improved, the hospital began to resume normal outpatient clinics since March 2.

According to incomplete statistics, since the outpatient clinic was restored, the average daily admission volume of the hospital is about 200 people, more than 60 patients have been admitted to the hospital, and nearly 30 surgical procedures have been successfully completed.

At about 2 pm on the 10th, at Wuhan Maternal and Child Health Hospital, the reporter saw Wuhan citizen Fang Jie who had come to undergo prenatal examination. "I've reached the third trimester." Fang Jie, 29, was about 39 weeks pregnant. She told reporters that she was worried about going out to affect the fetus in the early stages and delayed several birth inspections. Now she feels that the epidemic situation is gradually under control. She thought that she was about to go into labor and contacted the community volunteer team to come to the clinic on the same day.

Zhou Jieqiong, director of the obstetrics department of Wuhan Maternal and Child Health Hospital, introduced that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the hospital's experts and general clinics have not been interrupted. In order to prevent pregnant women from getting infected during the consultation, the hospital not only launched online consultation services, but also A pregnant woman and her family undergoing strict body temperature screening.

Unlike usual, the obstetric ward of the hospital is currently under closed management. A mother is allowed to accompany only one family member, and visits are refused. In addition to routine birth check-ups, pregnant women admitted to the hospital must undergo nucleic acid tests and CT scans of the lungs to rule out the possibility of new coronary pneumonia. In response to special circumstances, the hospital also set up a "buffer ward".

Zhou Jieqiong said that during the epidemic, the number of outpatient consultations in the hospital had decreased, but the number of newborns had increased slightly compared with previous years. According to statistics, from January 23 to March 10, a total of 1,528 newborns were born in the hospital.

Wuhan Sixth Hospital, not far from Wuhan Maternal and Child Health Hospital, resumed some general outpatient clinics on the 8th. The first batch of non-neocoronary pneumonia patients included general surgery, cardiovascular medicine, neurology, endocrinology, and oncology.

At the general outpatient department of geriatrics on the third floor of the hospital, Luo Guoyue, a citizen of Wuhan, held a long list of medicines and waited to prescribe them. He told reporters that his 80-year-old mother suffered from cardiovascular disease and had undergone heart bypass surgery a few years ago, taking medication regularly every day. Luo Guoyue said that since the implementation of community closed management in Wuhan, although community volunteers have helped buy some urgently needed drugs, there are still several that have not been able to buy.

Li Xiurong, director of the outpatient office of Wuhan No. 6 Hospital, introduced that the hospital will relocate fever clinics on the 6th and strictly disinfect the outpatient complex to set a clear medical treatment route for non-new coronary pneumonia patients. It is implemented before ordinary patients are admitted. Pre-check triage.

It is understood that the average number of hotspot consultations at the hospital has dropped from more than 500 during the peak period to more than 100, mostly for patients with new coronary pneumonia.

Recently, the situation of the Wuhan epidemic has changed positively. Since March 1, the number of newly confirmed cases in Japan has been less than 200. Since March 6th, there have been less than 100 cases for 5 consecutive days, of which the number of newly confirmed cases in Wuhan fell to less than 20 for the first time on March 9th.

Tu Yuanchao, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Health and Health Committee, previously introduced that on the basis of strict prevention and strict control, Wuhan will focus on ensuring urgently needed medical needs such as critically ill, hemodialysis, tumors, pregnant women and children, and designated the first batch of key hospitals to provide comprehensive Sexual medical services. In the later period, according to the actual situation of prevention and control, the designated hospitals for new coronary pneumonia were gradually reduced, and the normal medical order was gradually restored in batches. (Finish)