Dubai Health Authority has issued a circular addressed to all health authorities in the emirate, to raise awareness of measures to address the new coronavirus, "Corona", confirming that no infection in the emirate will be monitored forever.
In its circular issued today, and addressed to all health authorities in the emirate, the authority called for the necessity of immediate reporting in case anyone is suspected of being infected with the virus, especially since no treatment or vaccines have been established for the virus so far, while information indicates that the virus has spread outside China in several countries Including Thailand, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
The circular revealed that most cases of this virus are epidemiologically linked to a large market for seafood and animals, which indicates that the origin of the pandemic is the animal with the transmission of the virus from one person to another, and that symptoms of the disease are respiratory and a high temperature accompanied by shortness of breath and pneumonia.
He identified three cases that are suspected: a person with severe respiratory illness, a fever with a cough and shortness of breath, or a person who traveled to China 14 days before the appearance of these symptoms on him, or a person with close contact with a confirmed case of infection during the past 14 days, confirmed The confirmation of the infection is already done through a laboratory examination.
The authority stressed in its circulation of several controls to control infection in health care facilities, including the need for the infection control team to alert health workers to follow infection control measures transmitted through contact and spray and to carry out the necessary education and awareness of this virus, and the authority asked health facilities to constantly clean and disinfect hands. , And activate respiratory screening stations at the entrances to health facilities and facilities, to ensure early detection of those with acute respiratory disease.
The Authority asked health care facilities to apply contact and spray precautions when dealing with any suspected or confirmed case, and in the event of interference generating aerosols, additional precautions should be taken into account that include wearing the N95 mask and then properly testing and protecting the eyes by wearing goggles or face shields, gloves and a bib. Fluid permeable.
The authority indicated that laboratory tests for nCOV2019 are conducted in national laboratories only, so all suspicious samples must be sent to Dubai Health Authority laboratories, and the test is conducted to confirm suspected cases and those in contact with confirmed cases, and the Department of Preventive Medicine in Dubai Health stressed that primary health care providers that They are more alert when dealing with previous symptoms.
The Dubai Health Authority asked health care providers to immediately report all suspected or confirmed cases of Coronavirus through several means of communication, namely, immediate contact (0562253800) or (0562256769), provided that private sector facilities report cases of suspicion through the system ( Shiryan) and the government sector through the (safety) system.
The authority also stressed in its instructions to health facilities to enter all suspects of infection with the new Corona virus isolation rooms and follow the standards and take the necessary precautions to combat airborne and airborne diseases through contact with any patient or dead body with symptoms of the virus.
It is advised to use lower respiratory samples such as sputum, endotracheal emphysema or tracheal wash when possible. If patients do not have signs or symptoms of lower respiratory infection, or lower respiratory samples are not feasible or clinically indicated, then nasopharynx samples should be collected in the same manner as Middle East Respiratory Virus (SKM) samples.
The authority explained that coordination is being carried out on transferring samples to the Dubai Health Authority with the Microbiology and Infection Control Unit of the Virus Laboratory at Latifa Hospital for Women and Children of the Authority.