Taiwanese medical staff perform disinfection operations (data map)
Overseas Network May 23rd< /strong>According to a report by Taiwan’s United News Network on the 23rd, as of May 22, there have been 543 new crown deaths in Taiwan since April, of which more than 30% died within two days of being diagnosed. Su Yiren, the former “Director of the Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention” of the Taiwan authorities, said that this shows that the island’s epidemic prevention system and medical system have problems.
According to statistics, among the 543 new crown deaths, 100 died on the day of diagnosis (18%), and 77 died on the second day of diagnosis (14%). , 49 people were diagnosed after they died (9% of the total), and more than 40% of the deaths in total died quickly after diagnosis or were too late to be diagnosed. The time of their deaths was concentrated in the past two weeks, which is the stage when the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center has successively opened up close contacts of long-term care institutions, and those over 65 years old who are positive for quick screening can be diagnosed by comparison.
Su Yiren said that when the number of critically ill patients in long-term care institutions increases, if all are sent to the hospital, the medical capacity will soon collapse, but if they cannot be sent to the hospital, there will be more and more infections death in the institution.
Su Yiren said that with the surge in confirmed cases, in addition to the major challenges facing the epidemic prevention system, there are also difficulties such as blocked access to medical treatment, gradually insufficient medical capacity, and poor quality of care. For example, quick-screening positive people queue up for PCR testing, and may have to wait three or four days for the results, but as long as the elderly fail to take medicine in time for three or four days, the situation will become very difficult, resulting in diagnosis and death. The time is very close. （Overseas Network Yang Jia）
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