At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in Shanghai held on May 11, Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, introduced that since May 1, medical institutions in Shanghai have gradually resumed daily medical services, but It has not yet reached its pre-pandemic state. For emergency surgery, medical institutions need to complete the necessary preparations in the shortest time, and race against time to carry out emergency surgery to save the patient’s life. For this type of surgery, medical institutions have always been open.
Zhao Dandan said that in medicine, in addition to emergency surgery, there are limited-time and elective surgeries that do not require urgent implementation, and medical service institutions for these two types of surgeries are gradually recovering. To this end, the resumption of work and medical treatment in medical institutions will be accelerated. (Reporter Kang Yuzhan)