(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The war epidemic and the flood season, China ensures that "no major epidemic after the flood"
China News Service, Beijing, August 6 (Reporter Li Yanan) Since the flood season in 2020, many places in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have suffered floods. As the rainy areas move northward and typhoons land, the current situation of flood control and typhoon prevention in many places is still severe. At the same time, clusters of epidemics have occurred from time to time in individual areas of China. After the war epidemic and the flood season, ensuring "no major epidemic after the flood" has undoubtedly become a major challenge at present.
Data map: Flooding caused 1.463 million people in Jiangxi to be affected by emergency transfer of trapped people in Xinyu and other places. Picture / Zhao Chunliang
In this regard, the National Health Commission of China has made it clear that it is necessary to expand prevention with nucleic acid testing as the core, and do a good job in autumn and winter epidemic prevention and control, but also to do a good job in flood prevention and disaster relief health emergency and medical treatment, and strengthen the monitoring, prevention and control of post-disaster prone diseases. , To ensure that "no major epidemic after the flood", "from now to the end of the year is the critical period, but also the most strenuous time."
After floods, epidemics are extremely easy to cause. "Especially this year's new crown pneumonia is in the context of a global pandemic, we need to pay special attention to the prevention and control of the epidemic." Wang Xianliang, a researcher at the Environmental Institute of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out in an interview.
Regarding the focus of the current epidemic prevention and control, Wang Xianliang pointed out that at present, the waterway passenger carries a large number of passengers and the cabin is relatively closed. The importance of waterway passenger transportation for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic cannot be underestimated. Pay attention to formulating emergency plans, set up emergency areas in advance, strengthen body temperature monitoring, ensure ventilation, strengthen cleaning and disinfection, timely removal of garbage, and control the number of passengers through ticket sales, and arrange for passengers to be separated and sit separately.
In addition, the environmental sanitation of the temporary resettlement sites for the affected people is particularly worthy of attention. Wang Xianliang reminded that the water supply system of the resettlement site may be damaged, there are more hidden food safety hazards, the normal living conditions are restricted, the chance of contact with disease vectors increases, and the indoor population of the resettlement site is denser, etc., which are likely to cause various infectious diseases. .
In order to prevent and control the epidemic in a timely and effective manner, many places have started operations. In Jiangxi, where the flood situation is severe, the resettlement sites of the affected people are relatively closed. Personnel entering and exiting the resettlement sites need to check their body temperature. Each medical site needs to conduct routine health monitoring of the affected people, and carry out nucleic acid testing and inspections for people returning from the disaster area. Health code, temperature monitoring and registration system.
In Anhui, where more than one million people have been evacuated urgently, nearly 2,000 medical and anti-epidemic teams have carried out on-site or roving medical and health services. In addition to daily disinfection of the living environment of the people, knowledge of the prevention of common infectious diseases in popular science floods, inspections are also carried out from time to time to diagnose and treat people's headache and brain fever.
In fact, after more than 30 years of Chinese people’s national sanitation campaign, a major improvement of the human settlement environment was carried out immediately after the disaster. “The water recedes one inch, cleans one inch, and kills one inch” to ensure that there is no major epidemic after the disaster has become a standard action.
"On the whole, the risk of epidemics after the floods in China has been reduced a lot." Yang Daofeng, chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, emphasized, but we still need to focus on preventing water-borne diseases.
Yang Daofeng explained that the most common epidemics caused by floods are gastrointestinal diseases caused by water pollution, including hepatitis A, hepatitis E, typhoid fever, and even cholera that can be transmitted through water sources, as well as fish, shrimps and other water after water pollution. The product is easy to produce parasites and infect people. In addition, due to the hot and humid summer, food is prone to spoilage and can easily cause diarrhea, gastrointestinal infections and other diseases.
In June, the infectious disease report in Mainland China showed that there were more than 430,000 legal infectious diseases that month, including more than 500 cases of new coronary pneumonia. The most common cases were viral hepatitis and other infectious diarrheal diseases. Even in Beijing, where a cluster of epidemics occurred that month, the new coronary pneumonia was not among the top five reported cases of infectious diseases, and other infectious diarrhea ranked first.
Therefore, it is very important to do a good job in the disinfection of drinking water and water quality monitoring in the disaster-stricken areas. The National Health Commission of China recently issued the "Technical Specifications for Preventive Disinfection in Flood-Stricken Areas", which clearly proposes to strengthen the disinfection work in key areas such as resettlement sites, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and bazaars, and to strengthen the monitoring of diarrhea and fever symptoms in disaster areas, such as When an epidemic is found, the epidemic spot should be disinfected in time.
"About a week after the flood recedes is the peak of the outbreak of infectious diseases." Qin Enqiang, deputy chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Fifth Medical Center of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital, said that the epidemic of every infectious disease has a process, and the key is to find out in the first time and achieve infection. Early detection, early reporting, early isolation, and early treatment can prevent the spread of the epidemic. (Finish)