China Youth Daily client, Beijing, May 23 (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Xia Jin) At the press conference of the State Council’s joint prevention and control mechanism held this afternoon, the National Health and Health Commission’s Medical Administration and Medical Administration Bureau Ombudsman Guo Yanhong pointed out that the elderly and vulnerable people with underlying diseases are not only prone to develop severe disease after being infected with the Omicron variant strain, but also have underlying diseases, which brings great challenges to medical treatment.
Guo Yanhong pointed out that in order to ensure the treatment of critically ill patients, the construction of designated hospitals must first be strengthened, and patients with ordinary, severe, critical and at risk of severe disease should be admitted to designated hospitals. All localities should choose hospitals with strong comprehensive capabilities, good treatment conditions, and high management levels as designated hospitals for new coronary pneumonia. At the same time, designated hospitals should appropriately increase ICU bed resources, and promptly admit critically ill, critically ill, and patients with high risk factors to ICU wards for monitoring. In addition, it is necessary to provide sufficient equipment, facilities and medical forces for critically ill treatment, especially to improve the treatment capacity of medical staff to meet the treatment needs of critically ill patients.
In addition, it is necessary to standardize diagnosis and treatment. All localities must strictly follow the ninth edition of the diagnosis and treatment plan during the treatment process. On the one hand, insist on moving the threshold forward in the process of treatment, especially for people who seem to have mild symptoms but have high-risk factors, and increase the monitoring of early warning indicators. In the process of treatment, it is necessary to treat both new coronary pneumonia and underlying diseases, so special attention should be paid to “one person, one policy” and multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment. In addition, it is also very important for patients to strengthen psychological support, nutritional support and related symptomatic treatment.
Guo Yanhong emphasized that the prevention and control of the epidemic must be based on “prevention”, so the prevention and control measures must be implemented quickly and strictly in order to avoid the infection of a large number of people in a short period of time, thereby avoiding the occurrence of more number of severe and even fatal cases.
Guo Yanhong said that wearing masks every day, washing hands frequently, ventilating regularly, and reducing gatherings are effective measures to reduce infection. The elderly and people with underlying diseases must protect themselves from infection when an epidemic occurs. Vaccination is still an effective measure to prevent severe illness.