China News Service, Guiyang, January 4th (Zhou Yanling) Nowadays, in the medical treatment of new coronavirus infection in various parts of China, the elderly and people in rural areas are the most touching.
How did Guizhou, which is located in the hinterland of southwest China, respond?
On January 4, at a press conference held by the Information Office of the Guizhou Provincial Government, Zhang Wei, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial Health and Health Commission, said that Guizhou has established a green channel for elderly patients with severe illness. Diagnosed to a tertiary hospital, no need for step-by-step referral.
Zhang Wei said that after the elderly with basic diseases are infected with the new crown, they are likely to develop into severe patients. This has always been the focus of attention in Guizhou's treatment work. The grid-based medical consortium has full coverage, and the leading hospitals of the medical consortium help the grassroots to improve the ability of early identification and rapid treatment of severe diseases for the elderly through various methods such as dispatching professionals for on-site diagnosis and treatment, remote guidance, itinerant medical treatment, and on-site training.
The picture shows the medicines placed in the pharmacy of the Central Health Center of Yunwu Town, Guiding, Guizhou.
Photo by Qu Honglun
For the basic health status of the elderly, Guizhou also conducts hierarchical management and establishes three categories of health records: "red, yellow and green".
Red and yellow are elderly people with relatively high risks. They carry out project management and implement "two-to-one" services from village (community) staff and medical staff to guide them in health monitoring, rational drug use, and antigen self-testing.
As a major exporter of labor services, how does Guizhou guarantee the medical needs of the rural population?
Zhang Yuqiong, member of the party group and deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial Health and Health Commission, said that the first is to play the role of the main front of the county-level hospitals. County-level hospitals mainly guarantee the treatment needs of patients below the ordinary type. There are tertiary hospitals that undertake the task of treating severe patients. The hospital has set up the Department of Critical Care Medicine, which is a powerful supplement to the tertiary hospital.
Secondly, Guizhou has consolidated the bottom of the grassroots medical treatment network.
Fever clinics in all township health centers and community health service centers have been constructed and put into use, with a maximum daily capacity of 86,000 people; fever clinics have been set up in village clinics to actively expand the capacity of primary-level fever patients. Minimize the diversion of mild and asymptomatic patients, reduce the burden of hospital admissions, and allow precious medical resources to be used on patients who need them most.
In addition, Guizhou has given full play to the advantages of the telemedicine service system, using the provincial, municipal, county and township four-level telemedicine service system to carry out remote consultation, remote imaging and other services to help rural grassroots medical and health institutions improve their medical level; In the form of on-site training and other methods, grassroots medical staff will be trained on early identification of critically ill patients, home treatment guidelines for people infected with the new coronavirus, and grading and classification services for key populations to improve grassroots diagnosis and treatment capabilities.
At present, all parts of Guizhou are distributing free "epidemic prevention health kits" to key groups of the elderly aged 65 and over, which include 1 box of acetaminophen tablets, 1 box of cough and anti-inflammatory Chinese patent medicines, 10 medical surgical masks, 1 bottle of medical alcohol, 4 nucleic acid detection antigen reagents, etc.
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