Since March, more than 550,000 local infections have been reported nationwide, affecting 30 Province(district, city).
Under severe circumstances, nosocomial infections in hospitals are frequent, especially in the “hardest hit areas”.
Since April, news broke from time to time on the Internet that nosocomial infections have occurred in many medical institutions in Shanghai, and some Medical staff, patients, and accompanying staff in almost the entire ward were infected.
The momentum of nosocomial infection has not been effectively dealt with, coupled with the shortage of protective materials and daily necessities, some medical Staff, especially nurses, are desperate to seek help online.
According to medical reports, a hospital in Shanghai sent people out for sampling when there were positive staff in the hospital. , There is no sterilization and epidemic prevention in the hospital. The next day, the doctors and nurses in one ward were almost wiped out. On the fourth day, the hospital issued a closed-loop management notice, and the ward received the first batch of protective equipment. Prior to this, it was revealed that the nurse’s ward had been “streaking” for many days. During the period, other departments treated the ward as an epidemic area, but the ward was not closed and the personnel were free to come and go. On the other hand, all nurses in a ward of a hospital in Puxi, Shanghai have been living in the ward, sharing toilets with patients and their families, and eating at the nurse’s desk. Some people rely on colleagues to support necessities such as sanitary napkins. Since the positive patient has not been transferred, and the close contact medical staff has not arranged for isolation, some nurses worry that “if a patient is positive, the entire ward will be positive.”
After the news of asking for help came out, some hospital directors were publicly dismissed. On April 7, Zhou Baoguo, deputy secretary and dean of the Party Branch of the Huangpu District Mental Health Center in Shanghai, failed to perform his duties properly in the epidemic prevention and control work, resulting in the infection of many patients and employees, and was removed from party and administrative positions. subject to further investigation.