Shanghai faces the most severe epidemic prevention and control challenge since normalization
Writing |Wang Hang
Source | “Medical Community” Official Account
“We sincerely accept everyone’s criticism and are working hard to improve.”
At the press conference on epidemic prevention and control held on the morning of the 31st, Ma Chunlei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Secretary-General of the Municipal Government, said that in the face of the highly contagious and hidden mystery Shanghai does have problems with insufficient understanding, insufficient preparation, and inadequate implementation of the Chron mutant strains and the implementation of prevention and control measures.
Shanghai New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference
On March 30, Shanghai added 355 local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 5,298 local asymptomatic infections. Since March 1, there have been more than 30,000 local infections in Shanghai, and the epidemic prevention and control is facing the most severe challenge since normalization.
In order to achieve social zero as soon as possible, Shanghai announced yesterday evening that it will adopt comprehensive prevention and control measures such as global static management, nucleic acid screening of all employees, comprehensive flow investigation and investigation, and national cleaning and disinfection.
Further improving first aid capabilities
“Difficulty in seeking medical treatment” is the main problem in the screening of closure and control.
On the evening of March 30, a netizen posted on Weibo that an asthma patient in Shanghai was refused help at 120 o’clock and eventually died, and listed a detailed timeline and related video evidence.
Today, the Shanghai Pudong New Area Health and Health Commission released the results of the investigation, saying that although the doctor involved had an emergency treatment task at the time, the treatment was inappropriate and had been suspended.
“I am deeply saddened by the passing of this patient, and deeply sorry for the inexperienced and improper handling of the emergency doctor for failing to lend a vehicle-mounted defibrillator to rescue the patient in time!” Pudong New Area The Health and Health Commission is strengthening the education of medical staff in the region.
In the super-chat section of Weibo “Anti-epidemic Help”, there are also a large number of help information from the family members of patients, some patients with hemodialysis positive need urgent dialysis, some patients with cancer urgently need treatment, and others Those with other diseases that require surgery…
In response to the problems of “difficulty in seeking medical treatment” and “slow transportation”, Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, said at a press conference today that Shanghai is taking the following measures to ease the pressure of medical treatment:
First, emergency medical institutions at all levels in the city have been opened under the premise of standardizing epidemic prevention;
The second is to coordinate the allocation of hemodialysis treatment resources in the city, increase equipment and related medical personnel, and support the treatment of hemodialysis patients in Pudong New Area;
Third, during the epidemic prevention and control period, medical institutions can reasonably increase the dosage of a single prescription according to the actual situation of patients, and reduce the number of times patients visit medical institutions for dispensing;
Fourth, publicize the contact numbers of designated medical institutions in the city’s closed-off areas to the public, and designate a dedicated line to answer medical calls, focusing on meeting the necessary medical needs of emergency patients.
Director Wu Jinglei said frankly that while the Shanghai medical and health system is doing its best to fight the epidemic, it is also doing its best to provide daily medical services to the citizens, but there is still a certain gap with the needs of the public. .
“During this period, the 120 emergency center was under tremendous pressure to answer and operate, although we have taken emergency measures to increase the capacity of emergency services, the ambulance on duty increased by nearly 50%, and the workload It is three times that of the original, but it still cannot fully meet the needs of all patients, and there are also problems that individual staff are inexperienced and have insufficient emergency response capabilities.”
Health care systems are under enormous pressure as the number of infected people soars. Wu Ganyu, a first-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, introduced yesterday that a number of centralized isolation and treatment places have been opened at the Shanghai and district levels, and many other large venues are under reconstruction. point.
Following the emergency renovation of Minhang Gymnasium, Jiading Gymnasium, and World Expo Exhibition Hall and putting them into use, the temporary centralized isolation and treatment point of Shanghai New International Expo Center will be completed soon. There are more than 15,000 beds here, mainly for the treatment of mild and asymptomatic infections. As of 12:00 noon on March 31, half of the beds are eligible for delivery.
This morning, 371 nurses from the Nursing Department of the Tenth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University and medical staff from other hospitals have entered their respective wards.
New International Expo Center Isolation Point
Image source: Jiefang Daily
“All medical staff in our entire medical and health system will continue to work with all their might.” Director Wu Jinglei said that Shanghai will further improve the emergency departmentreasoning ability.
As for the problem of “difficulty in buying vegetables”, Ma Chunlei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Secretary-General of the Municipal Government, said that the work plan for emergency supply of vegetables has been launched, and the supply of goods from other provinces and cities has been actively organized. Increase the strength of transportation and distribution, and find ways to get through the “last mile”.
Shanghai implements global static management
“At present, we are in the most critical and critical stage of epidemic prevention and control. Every hour and every minute is very precious. No matter how hard or tired we are, we must endure it.”
In order to achieve social zero as soon as possible, yesterday evening, Shanghai held a meeting of leading cadres in the city. Li Qiang, secretary of the municipal party committee and leader of the city’s leading group for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, announced at the meeting: Shanghai will take measures Comprehensive prevention and control measures such as global static management, nucleic acid screening of all employees, comprehensive flow investigation and investigation, and national cleaning and sterilization are implemented in batches and seamlessly connected.
Starting from the 28th, Shanghai has implemented the “half city” in turn closure and control, and all residential quarters in the closure control area are under closed management (Minhang is divided into two batches), and all personnel stay at home , people and vehicles can only get in and out. Today, the epidemic prevention measures have been further upgraded to “global static management”.
In addition to strictly controlling a series of out-of-home activities such as grocery shopping and commuting, traffic control measures are also being upgraded.
According to the WeChat public account of “Shanghai Transportation”, from April 1, 2022 to April 4, 2022, Shanghai Metro will suspend all rail transit in Puxi and some parts of Pudong and Punan. Station operation. All bus lines in the closed area (the airport line will be arranged separately) will be suspended; the bus lines passing through the closed area will be detoured; the bus lines going to the closed area will be shortened.
In addition, it is prohibited to drive and engage in commercial business activities in the closed area; inter-provincial passenger transport and intra-city chartered vehicles will be suspended in the closed area; Jinshan Railway will be suspended; 7 stations including Songjiang South Station stop picking up and dropping off passengers.
On the 31st, the current round of nucleic acid screening in Pudong, Punan and adjacent areas in Shanghai is coming to an end. Starting tomorrow, more people (16 million people) will be involved and the scope of control will be larger (12 Nucleic acid screening in Puxi area will be fully launched.
As for the civil activities before and after the lockdown, Wu Fan, member of the expert group of the Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group and Vice Dean of Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, stressed that personal protection and reducing mobility are still important important.
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