National notification: By the end of the year, the whole country will be equipped with these medical equipment
Recently, there has been a surge in social positive cases, and medical institutions are undergoing an unprecedented comprehensive test. Jiao Yahui, Director General of the Medical Department of the National Health Commission, said at a recent briefing that the preparation of medical resources is the preparation and key to our work in the next phase of medical services.
In the face of this big examination, the reserve and balance of medical resources become the key to solve the problem. Before the end of December, the equipment of county-level hospitals will be greatly upgraded
On December 11, the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for novel coronavirus Pneumonia issued the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Work Plan for Improving the Medical Security Capacity of Rural COVID-19 by Relying on the County Medical Community (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”).
It is pointed out that in rural areas, with the county medical community as the carrier, to enhance the critical treatment capacity of county-level hospitals and give full play to the health monitoring role of township health centers and village clinics, it is possible to reduce the severity rate and mortality rate, and formulate this plan.
It is observed that this round of capacity enhancement will trigger a large number of medical equipment purchase demand in the short term.
Specifically, according to the Plan, it is necessary to improve the medical treatment capacity of COVID-19 in the county.
First, it is necessary to strengthen the construction and preparation of medical resources for severe diseases and infectious diseases in county-level hospitals.
County-level hospitals led by the county medical community should achieve the following goals by the end of December:
Making preparations for intensive care medical resources. If a county hospital is a tertiary hospital, it should speed up the completion of the construction and upgrading of integrated ICU monitoring units to ensure that the number of integrated ICU beds for the treatment of all types of critically ill patients infected with the new coronavirus is no less than 4% of the total number of beds actually open in the hospital, and that each intensive care unit is readily available for use.
At the same time, the capacity expansion and transformation of other specialized intensive care beds except the comprehensive ICU should be immediately started. The power supply and oxygen supply systems should be reformed according to the standards of the comprehensive ICU, and the monitoring and treatment equipment such as ventilators and monitors should be equipped to meet the needs of comprehensive intensive care, so as to ensure that the patients can be put into the medical treatment at any time when needed.
If a county-level hospital is a second-level hospital, it shall set up an independent intensive care department, construct and renovate intensive care units in accordance with comprehensive ICU standards, and ensure that all intensive care units are available at any time. The city counterpart hospitals in the working group shall guide and accept the construction and transformation of the intensive care unit of county-level hospitals.
In addition, to strengthen the buffer ward construction. Buffer wards are set up in a relatively independent area of each department in the hospital. If the county-level hospital is a level-III hospital, an appropriate number of buffer wards can be selected according to needs, equipped with necessary oxygen supply, monitoring and treatment equipment, and upgraded into treatment beds for critical patients.
Do a good job in the construction of infectious diseases department. The infection department is set up in the independent area or building of the inpatient department. The ventilation, passage and zoning meet the requirements of the hospital infection prevention and control of infectious diseases. The equipment of each bed unit is equipped with power supply and oxygen supply conditions.
In addition, all localities should allocate all the symptomatic treatment drugs such as Chinese herbs, antipyretic and cough medicines and antigen detection kits in accordance with 15-20% of the population served by the township health centres.
The Plan also talks about strengthening the capacity of village clinics to provide medical services. Township hospitals distribute traditional Chinese medicine and antigen detection kits to village clinics, strengthen the training of rural doctors, and improve the ability of rural doctors to provide antigen detection guidance, home health monitoring, and symptomatic drug treatment for people at high risk of severe COVID-19.
Giving full play to the supporting role of informatization. All localities should make full use of information technology to strengthen the command and dispatch of graded and classified treatment of COVID-19 patients within their jurisdiction. Within the county medical community, it is necessary to achieve full coverage of telemedicine in fever clinics (outpatient clinics) of township health centers, and the superior hospitals improve their grassroots capabilities through remote consultation, remote diagnosis, remote training and other ways.
The Plan made it clear that more investment should be made to strengthen the capacity of county-level hospitals for critical care and the construction of fever clinics (outpatient clinics) in township hospitals to ensure the completion of construction tasks on schedule.
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By Saibolan Instrument
Translated & edited by Bradyknows
