BEIJNG: Medical institutions and authorities at all levels are ramping up efforts to allocate resources to relieve pressure among medical institutes.
With restrictions largely withdrawn, how to ensure normal operation of medical institutions to maintain routine diagnosis, emergency and critical treatment is a test for medical institutions at all levels.
Medical treatment is the current focus of the country’s epidemic prevention and control. The country is allocating medical resources accordingly, based on the epidemic situation and the urgency of disease, Mi Feng, spokesperson of the National Health Commission, told Thursday’s press briefing.
It is difficult to train medical staff in a very short time but medical institutes could allocate more manpower from upper-level medical institutes or rehire medical personnel who retired in the past five years to alleviate the huge pressure that medical institutions are undergoing, Nie Chunlei, an official with the NHC, suggested.
Despite the cold winter in Beijing, lines of patients are waiting in front of fever clinics. On December 12, the daily number of patients in the fever clinics of Beijing hospitals reached 22,000, 16 times higher than a week earlier. To relieve the pressure and reduce the lines in front of fever clinics, many cities are setting up new fever clinics. In Beijing, the number rose to 303 from 94 previously, of which 235 are open 24 hours and 100 can receive child patients. More than 340 local community centers have also set up fever clinics.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News Exchange Item
