Measures to protect caring medical staff intensified and praised
Relieve worries and ensure that frontline medical staff fights the epidemic
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The state has issued relevant documents intensively, which not only hopes to effectively relieve the worries of frontline medical staff and allow them to better participate in epidemic prevention and control, but also releases a positive signal for all epidemic prevention and control workers, indicating that the state fully affirms the medical workers' Dedication.
If medical staff work longer than the maximum working intensity, their autoimmunity will decrease and the number of infections will increase. So what we have to do is to rationally allocate existing medical staff and arrange mandatory rest for long-time high-load staff.
□ Our reporter Hou Jianbin
As of now, more than 30,000 medical personnel have been sent to Hubei by 29 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities), the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and the military system. As the backbone of the fight against the epidemic, the personal safety of medical personnel has drawn much attention from all walks of life.
The Leading Group of the Central Government for the Response to the New Coronavirus Infection and Pneumonia Epidemic Issued the "Notice on Fully Implementing Several Measures to Further Protect and Care Medical Staff" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), and proposed ten related measures such as increasing salary and compulsory rest. Relevant departments in various places must attach great importance to the protection, care and love of medical personnel, strengthen support in all aspects, and provide strong guarantees for resolutely winning the epidemic prevention and control fight.
Experts in the industry told the reporter of the Legal Daily that the level of care and protection for medical personnel is the key to the victory of this battle. It is necessary to introduce these measures, which can effectively relieve the worries of frontline medical staff and allow them to better participate in epidemic prevention and control. At the same time, experts reminded that frontline medical staff are facing great work and psychological pressure. How to scientifically arrange professional psychologists to perform psychological resolution for them needs urgent attention.
Intensive measures to care for medical staff
Since the occurrence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, although some medical staff have been unfortunately infected with the virus, and some have even given their precious lives, the majority of medical staff are still fighting on the front lines day and night.
The reporter noticed that in addition to the "Notice" just issued, since February, the state has issued a number of related documents to protect and care medical staff.
On February 7, the National Health Commission, Supreme Law, Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Preventing and Controlling the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Situation to Safeguard Medical Workers' Safe Maintenance of a Good Medical Order", clearly proposing that the seven categories will be severe Combating medical-related crimes.
On the same day, the State Council ’s joint prevention and control mechanism issued the “Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Safeguarding Work of Frontline Medical Staff and Their Families”, which requires psychological, safety, humanities and living security.
On February 11, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the notice of the National Health and Health Commission, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Affairs, and the Ministry of Finance on "Measures to Improve the Working Conditions of Frontline Medical Staff and Practically Care for the Physical and Mental Health of Medical Staff" (hereinafter referred to as "Measures") to improve frontline The medical staff's working conditions and practical care for the physical and mental health of medical staff put forward seven measures.
On February 18, the National Health and Medical Commission issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Prevention and Control of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic, Medical Workers and Epidemic Workers Martyrs Praise the Relevant Work", requiring all places to deploy medical workers and epidemic workers who were sacrificed during the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. The martyr praised the work.
On February 19, the National Health and Medical Commission issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Protection of Medical Staff during Epidemic Prevention and Control", and strengthened seven aspects of work to effectively protect the physical and mental health of medical staff.
On February 22, the State Council ’s joint prevention and control mechanism issued the “Notice on Doing Good Care of the Elderly Relatives of First-line Medical Staff in the Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia Outbreaks”, requiring local governments to do five aspects of care services for the elderly relatives of medical staff.
"Medical personnel are responsible for patient screening, diagnosis, and treatment. They are the main force to do a good job in medical treatment and control the spread of the epidemic." Deng Yong, associate professor of medical and health law at the Law Department of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told the Legal Daily that the country is intensive The promulgation of relevant documents not only hopes to effectively relieve the worries of frontline medical staff and allow them to better participate in epidemic prevention and control, but also to release a positive signal for all epidemic prevention and control workers, indicating that the country fully affirms the selfless dedication of medical workers .
Deng Yong said that China ’s new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control has attracted worldwide attention, and the Chinese government is actively doing its part, and it is also showing the world that the Chinese government dares to play an important role.
Asking medical staff to take a break for the first time
The "Notice" clearly states that all regions should increase the compensation of epidemic prevention and treatment personnel, double the corresponding standard of temporary work subsidies for front-line medical staff in Hubei Province (including the E-Med Medical Team), and double the pay level of front-line medical staff in Hubei Province.
"In addition to salary rewards in special periods, the more important thing is to relieve the psychological pressure of medical staff." Wang Yue, a professor at the School of Medical Humanities of Peking University, told the Legal Daily reporter that the level of care and protection for medical staff is the last of this battle. The key to success. At present, the national epidemic prevention and control has entered a critical period, and medical personnel have heavy work tasks, high risk of infection, and high work pressure. How to scientifically arrange a professional psychiatrist to perform psychological resolution for medical staff needs urgent attention from the government.
The epidemic struck, and many non-frontline personnel were extremely nervous, not to mention medical staff who had been working in the frontline for a long time. Deng Yong said that the frontline medical staff is under great psychological pressure and is more prone to psychological problems, and it is urgent to conduct psychological adjustment and guidance.
"Of course, maintaining good physical and mental health of medical staff is conducive to transmitting positive signals to patients through medical staff and enhancing patients' confidence in healing." Deng Yong told reporters.
The "Notice" also made it clear that localities must ensure that rotation and recuperation are in place. Reasonably arrange the rotation of first-line medical staff, take good care of the isolation of medical staff on shift, and arrange compulsory rest for long-time high-load staff.
The reporter noted that in previous documents, it was proposed that "reasonable arrangements should be made for medical staff to rest and rest, and for medical staff who cannot take a vacation due to the implementation of epidemic prevention and control, the medical and health institutions where they work will give priority to compensatory rest." However, the expression "compulsory rest" appears for the first time in a series of documents.
Deng Yong said that after long hours of heavy work, it is necessary to rest. Otherwise, the medical staff's body will not be able to bear, and after the fall, they need to be separated to take care of these medical staff, which not only damages the medical staff's own health but also affects the overall work efficiency.
"In addition, the mandatory rest arrangement will also play a role in supervising the locality." In Deng Yong's view, if there is no mandatory rest arrangement, some places may require medical staff to work for a long time and high workload to beautify local data.
"I have never advocated that frontline medical staff work overtime." Wang Yue also believes that if medical staff work longer than the maximum work intensity, their autoimmunity will decline and the number of infections will increase. So what we have to do is to rationally allocate existing medical staff and arrange mandatory rest for long-time high-load staff.
Wang Yue said frankly, "Sometimes there are not a lot of resources. But due to the asymmetric information, we cannot optimize the use of these resources. Of course, it includes both medical supplies and medical staff." How to send all over the country to the front line of Hubei The adequate and reasonable deployment of medical personnel may be a subject that the government must spend great efforts to crack.
Severely punish the medical practitioners in accordance with the law
Despite frequent official actions, incidents of wounding and disrupting medical order have not been banned. Recently, a video of a patient scolding medical staff in Wuhan No. 7 Hospital of Hubei has been circulated on the Internet, attracting attention from all sides. Recently, a similar phenomenon has occurred in some places. Some patients or their families have abused or beaten medical staff. Some even spit at the medical staff for venting their dissatisfaction.
On February 21, Li Jingsheng, director of the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security, revealed at the press conference of the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council that the Ministry of Public Security has deployed various places to improve the level of service, and arranged 120,000 police officers 24 hours a day in accordance with the "one hospital and one special class" , 24-hour protection of all designated hospitals across the country.
At the same time, guide localities to establish a multi-department linkage and collaboration mechanism for sharing information and handling feedback. In response to cases of disrupting the medical order, violently injuring medical personnel, and interfering with the prevention and control of epidemics in some places, the Ministry of Public Security has jointly supervised with the Health and Health Commission to guide localities to implement strict and quick punishment in accordance with the law.
According to statistics, as of February 20, a total of 27,000 cases of medical-related contradictions have been investigated and resolved, and 232 cases of injuries and medical disturbances have been investigated and handled, with 277 personnel.
In response, the "Notice" emphasized the need to create a more secure working environment. Strictly implement various safety precautions, increase investment, improve accountability mechanisms, maintain medical order, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of medical personnel.
"Practice safety of medical staff needs urgent attention." According to Deng Yong, although the incidence of injuries to medical staff is not high, every medical injury incident will make the medical staff feel chill and even affect the enthusiasm of the medical staff.
Deng Yong frankly said that because of the sudden nature of the case of injury, even if there is a patrol throughout the venue, it is difficult to protect the case of injury. Therefore, a front-end control method is adopted.
Deng Yong suggested that not only should we strengthen the punishment for injuries to doctors, so that people would not dare to hurt doctors; but also increase the emotional guidance to patients and their families, and make people unwilling to hurt doctors. At the same time, the training of medical staff has been strengthened, so that medical staff can protect themselves when faced with injuries.
In addition, it is recommended to purchase personal injury insurance for medical personnel, and to add medical personnel who died as a result of injury to the medical practice as martyrs, so as to relieve medical personnel's worries.