Nghe An expands mobile medical stations to respond to Covid-19 outbreak
(Baonghean.vn) - At the conference, Mr. Duong Dinh Chinh requested units to proactively advise the District People's Committee based on the epidemic situation in the area, urgently consolidate, supplement human resources and expand mobile medical stations.
On February 10, Nghe An Department of Health held an online meeting with the Provincial Center for Disease Control; Medical Centers of districts, cities, towns, regional and district general hospitals and units in the health sector on the implementation of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control tasks and strengthening the capacity of grassroots health care in 2022.
According to Mr. Chu Trong Trang - Deputy Director of the Provincial Center for Disease Control, since the beginning of the epidemic season, Nghe An has recorded 21,984 cases of Covid-19,ranked 30th in the country.The average number of cases in the past 12 days is 672.0 cases/day, 136 community cases/day.The number of cases has more than doubled compared to before Tet. Especially from February 6 until now, there have been days when Nghe An has had over 2,500 cases.
Vinh City is still the leading unit in the number of cases in recent days. Specifically, the localities with the highest number of cases in the past 12 days are: Vinh City 1,669, Nghi Loc 906, Dien Chau 758, Yen Thanh 735, Quynh Luu 648 and Do Luong 567.
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| Health Department leaders inspect epidemic prevention work during Tet holidays. Photo: TT |
According to the leader of CDC Nghe An, the number of cases in the province in the past few days has increased due to a number of subjective and objective factors. Firstly, in the past time, Nghe An people from other provinces returned to celebrate Tet in relatively large numbers, along with a large number of COVID cases, leading to infection within families and relatives. During Tet, people visit, congratulate, and celebrate a lot, especially festivals with large crowds, which are major causes of infection in the community.
In addition, during the Tet holidays, people did not declare and did not go to the doctor, so at the end of the Tet holiday, the number of people at risk and showing clinical symptoms went for testing. Furthermore, to prepare for work at the beginning of the year, some agencies and factories required employees to get tested before going to work, leading to a sudden increase in the number of F0 cases in recent days. In addition, people were subjective because they had received 2 doses of vaccine, so they did not comply with epidemic prevention work as well as implement 5K well.
“Home quarantine and treatment of F0 can also be a cause of infection when the quarantine process is not carried out properly and the family's facilities do not meet regulations. Meanwhile, communication work in recent days has been somewhat limited and overwhelmed by Tet media channels,” said Mr. Trang.
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| Director of the Department of Health concluded at the conference. Photo: Tien Hung |
Speaking at the conference, Director of the Department of Health Duong Dinh Chinh highly appreciated the active and proactive participation in implementing measures to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic, vaccinate as well as develop grassroots healthcare of medical units in the industry.
However, the head of Nghe An's health sector said that, in addition to the achieved results, there are still some shortcomings that need to be overcome in medical isolation, COVID-19 vaccination, and the reception and monitoring of COVID-19 patients at home/place of residence. Along with that, due to the complicated developments of the epidemic, there are times when some units have not paid due attention to the development of technical expertise at the district level.
Regarding COVID-19 prevention and control, Associate Professor, Dr. Duong Dinh Chinh requested units to proactively advise the District People's Committee based on the epidemic situation in the area, urgently consolidate, supplement human resources and expand mobile medical stations in communes/wards/towns to deploy health care and monitoring of F1 and COVID-19 patients at home/place of residence.
Organize testing and use screening reagents according to the risk subjects prescribed by the Ministry of Health. Public medical facilities do not collect fees for rapid pooled sample testing for people in need. Review and supplement sufficient supplies, chemicals, and equipment to ensure meeting the needs of epidemic prevention when an epidemic occurs in the area.
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| Patients were cured at the first mobile medical station in Nghe An. Photo: Contributor |
Mr. Chinh also requested to proactively expand the capacity of medical facilities in the area to effectively carry out routine medical examination and treatment and COVID-19 treatment and intensive care, especially COVID-19 treatment facilities at the district level. Ensure sufficient medical oxygen; have plans to reserve medicines, blood, infusion fluids, supplies, chemicals, equipment, arrange hospital beds, emergency vehicles, and be ready to respond to and serve treatment and emergency care.
Regarding COVID-19 vaccination, the leaders of the Department of Health requested that units proactively advise the COVID-19 vaccination campaign steering committee at the district level to mobilize the entire political system to participate in the implementation of the vaccination campaign; such as reviewing vaccination subjects, mobilizing vaccination subjects and supporting the health sector in implementation. Regularly arrange vaccination points at grassroots health care vaccination points to organize vaccination for people; Arrange mobile vaccination teams to vaccinate at home for the elderly, the weak, the disabled, etc. Medical examination and treatment facilities from the district level and above are responsible for receiving cases with indications for vaccination at medical examination and treatment facilities from mobile vaccination points and grassroots health care vaccination points to deploy vaccination immediately during the vaccination campaign....
In addition, it is also necessary to strengthen communication work with many forms and means, especially maximizing the effectiveness of the commune/ward radio system to provide the community and local people with information on disease prevention and control; raise people's awareness of getting enough vaccines, testing, isolation, treatment, especially strictly implementing 5K in COVID-19 prevention and control.
Regarding grassroots health care, the Director of the Department of Health requested medical examination and treatment facilities to raise their vigilance in preventing and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic at medical examination and treatment facilities. Strictly implement the set of safety criteria for preventing and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic at medical examination and treatment facilities from the provincial level to the grassroots level. Strengthen training and capacity building for professional staff at the district level, transfer technical services to lower levels based on the Satellite Hospital Project approved by the Provincial People's Committee. Continue to strengthen the implementation of activities to build Green-Clean-Beautiful medical facilities, quality management in hospitals; Update and improve technical and professional processes, treatment regimens developed at the unit. Improve service quality and satisfaction of patients and people with medical examination and treatment facilities. Continue to strongly deploy the application of Information Technology in hospitals; perfect the smart hospital model at the units.
Meanwhile, district-level health centers are responsible for continuing to direct general disease prevention work (especially COVID-19); not allowing major epidemics to occur; controlling infectious diseases, and controlling emerging diseases well...