May 19 is the 12th “World Family Doctor Day”, and the theme of this year’s event is “Meet a Family Doctor” , along with health.” Family doctors are the health care partners of community residents. There are 251 community health service centers in Shanghai, more than 30,000 community medical staff, and more than 6,000 family doctor teams, from maternity care to newborn visits, from risk screening to health Management, from general outpatient clinics to nursing wards, from rehabilitation guidance to traditional Chinese medicine services, from home beds to palliative care… Always accompany residents and shoulder the mission of health. Since the current round of the epidemic, community medical staff represented by family doctors have adhered to the position of community prevention and control, went all out to protect the health of residents, and resolutely won the “Great Shanghai Defense War”.
On the front line of epidemic prevention and control, family doctors and community medical staff have turned into “big whites” and fought on multiple fronts. We will fully invest in nucleic acid screening, and cooperate with disease control departments, street towns and village committees to fully complete nucleic acid screening, review, and coordinated transport, and build the first line of defense to block the spread of the virus. Complete isolation and health observation, stationed at the isolation point to carry out health observation for every entry and close isolation personnel, face-to-face temperature measurement every day, always caring, and help the isolation personnel to pass the isolation period smoothly. Actively participate in the diagnosis and treatment services of the square cabin, and together with the medical staff of higher-level hospitals and other provinces and cities, take on the functions of medical services, health observation, hospital infection protection, psychological counseling, etc., to help every patient get out of the square cabin healthy. . Implement discharge health management, cooperate with street and village committees, include discharged patients and infected people returning to the community into community health management, and strengthen health guidance, monitoring and care.
In the position of protecting health, 251 community health service centers in the city insisted on opening as much as possible, and the service hours and contact information were announced to the public. The family doctor team takes the initiative to care about the contracted residents, relying on the “Shanghai Health Cloud” family doctor online service, “I want to dispense” and other Internet service platforms, using APP, WeChat, phone calls, text messages and other channels to guide residents to do a good job of health self-management With personal protection, health education and psychological counseling services are provided, and health consultations raised by residents are answered as soon as possible, so as to fully protect the basic health needs of residents. For residents in need of dispensing medicines, family doctors cooperate with village committees to collect and compare residents’ medication needs, and community health service centers continue to adjust and enrich drug allocations, provide convenient services such as “substitute dispensing”, and strive to ensure residents’ drug “dispensing” during the lockdown period. For residents who need to go out to see a doctor regularly, family doctors focus on key groups such as hemodialysis, chemotherapy and regular obstetric examinations, etc., actively track and contact the diagnosis and treatment situation, and fully cooperate with residents for regular diagnosis and treatment “uninterrupted”; for residents with limited mobility , Community health service centers maintain continuous and stable family bed services, and try their best to achieve “guaranteed” home diagnosis and treatment for special groups such as the elderly and the disabled.
On the evening of May 19, Shanghai’s landmark “Global Harbor” lit up the lights for the city’s family doctors, and slogans such as “Sign a contract with a family doctor, make an appointment with your health” and “United as a city, Shanghai will win” are under the background of the lights. It is not only a tribute to the family doctors in the city, but also reflects the confidence of winning together. Shanghai family doctors and all community medical staff will continue to stick to the front line of community prevention and control, make every effort to protect the health of residents, and fulfill their solemn commitment to protecting the health of residents.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Zuo Yan