Shanghai: Medical institutions must not delay treatment on the grounds of waiting for nucleic acid results

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Source: CCTV News

From 0 to 24:00 on the 14th, 3,200 new local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 19,872 asymptomatic infections were added in Shanghai. This morning (April 15), Shanghai held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic to introduce the latest situation of epidemic prevention and control.

  • As of 9:00 a.m. on April 15, Shanghai has accumulated close contacts in Shanghai for this round of epidemic. Among them, 317,115 people have been put under control, of which 267,740 people have negative nucleic acid test results, and the rest are being tested. A total of 124,738 people in close contact in Shanghai have been investigated, and all of them have been put under control. Among them, 124,333 people have negative nucleic acid test results, and the rest are being tested.
  • On the 14th, 543 local confirmed cases were discharged from hospital in Shanghai, and 8070 cases were released from centralized isolation and medical observation. They will all return to their places of residence for health monitoring.
  • The relevant person in charge introduced that in order to ensure the needs of Shanghai citizens for medical treatment during the epidemic prevention and control period, public medical institutions at all levels are required to keep outpatient visits in principle, especially key departments such as emergency and fever clinics must be fully open to the public. , Strictly implement the responsibility system for the first diagnosis, the emergency and critical care system, and ensure medical services. During the whole process of the patient’s consultation, it is required that waiting for the nucleic acid test result should not be used as an excuse to refuse to prevaricate and delay treatment.
  • At present, according to the national requirements, Shanghai has implemented the measures of “centralized isolation medical observation + home health monitoring” for close contacts. After the close contact personnel arrive at the centralized isolation place, in principle, a single room will be implemented, temperature will be measured every morning and evening, and nucleic acid testing will be carried out regularly.

Shanghai will continue to pay attention to the elderly living alone and extremely poor families

  • For the elderly living alone, especially the elderly living alone or those whose family members are isolated and treated and temporarily unattended The elderly, etc., carry out a thorough investigation, grasp the actual needs, and organize forces to provide assistance.
  • For extremely poor families, the civil affairs department has strengthened assistance and support, requiring the timely and full payment of the minimum living security fund, and the provision of necessary epidemic prevention materials, agricultural and sideline foods, daily necessities, etc., to ensure the basic needs of the poor during the epidemic prevention and control period. Life.
  • In response to the recent rise in vegetable prices, a one-time subsidy will be provided to the urban and rural subsistence allowances, the extremely poor, and the living assistance recipients of poor families.