(Fighting new crown pneumonia) Wuhan promotes district drug purchase to solve the problem of drug purchase for patients with severe (chronic) disease

China News Service, Wuhan, February 29th (Reporter Xu Jinbo) Wuhan New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters issued the "Notice on Safeguarding the Purchase of Drugs for Outpatients with Severe (Chronic) Diseases During the Epidemic Period". From now on, the city will solve the problem of purchasing drugs for outpatients with severe (chronic) diseases through the implementation of community purchasing, district purchase of drugs, establishment of drug purchase appointment platforms, and Internet diagnosis and treatment services.

According to the relevant person in charge of the headquarters, recently affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, some medical institutions in Wuhan have not resumed diagnosis and treatment, coupled with the closed management and traffic control in residential quarters, the city's 408,000 outpatients with severe chronic diseases face drug purchase Inconvenience.

According to the notice, starting from now, in accordance with the requirements for community closure in Wuhan, all districts strictly implement drug community purchasing, and the community will arrange staff or volunteers to help outpatients with severe (chronic) diseases to purchase medicines, and drugs shall not be purchased across districts.

At present, there are 50 designated retail pharmacies for severe (chronic) diseases in Wuhan Medical Insurance Clinic, no less than 4 in each district of the central urban area, and no less than 2 in each district of the new urban area, all of which provide hypertension, diabetes, and blood vessels. Drug purchase services for 10 diseases including interventional surgery, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, cirrhosis, malignant tumors, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal transplantation, and Parkinson's disease.

Wuhan urban districts have established a counterpart service mechanism for street counterpart drug stores to standardize work processes. Led by the medical insurance and market supervision departments of each district, Weijian and other district departments and district offices and community health service centers coordinated and participated in the establishment of district outpatient drug purchase appointment platforms in the form of WeChat groups and QQ groups. Responsible for coordinating communities to report patient drug purchase needs to the platform, and the platform will be reasonably allocated to the designated retail pharmacies for severe (chronic) diseases in the medical insurance clinics in the district. Community purchasers will go to the pharmacy to purchase drugs at the appointment time.

Wuhan health department will organize qualified medical institutions to carry out Internet diagnosis and treatment, carry out some common diseases, chronic diseases re-examination and drug distribution services for patients online, build an online and offline integrated service model, and ease the pressure of offline diagnosis and treatment. At the same time, the approved medical insurance designated Internet hospitals are encouraged to provide Internet diagnosis and treatment services for patients with severe chronic diseases who are insured in the city.

In order to improve the service capacity of pharmacies and ensure the timely supply of medicines, Wuhan will upgrade the Internet bandwidth of 50 outpatient severe (chronic) disease designated retail pharmacies, and urge pharmacies to open as many service windows as possible, increase staff, equip corresponding equipment, Provide fast service. If the service is not available, it will be investigated and dealt with according to law, and other medical insurance designated retail pharmacies in the district will select and replenish.

The reporter saw on the 29th that the people's pharmacy in Wuchang Pengliuyang Road, Wuhan City, Wuhan, nearby community workers are buying one by one against the list of medicines provided by residents. According to reports, in order to facilitate residents in the area to buy commonly used and severe (chronic) disease medicines, the community will regularly understand the residents' drug purchase needs through telephone and online platforms, and arrange for special people to buy and purchase. For residents with mobility difficulties or elderly people living alone or empty nests, Home delivery medicine. (Finish)