Thousands of doctors in Shanxi to the grassroots, traveling medical care to ensure health

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During the Spring Festival, the province launched the “Thousands of physicians to the grassroots, improve the grassroots treatment capacity” tour medical work, clearly focused on the “health protection, prevention of serious illnesses” work objectives and “infected patients have medicine, serious patients have beds In addition to the “health protection, prevention of serious illness” goal and the “infected patients have medicine to eat, serious patients have beds” requirement, there are people to manage minor illnesses and serious illnesses are transferred”, relying on the counterpart support mechanism of tertiary hospitals, through consultation, traveling medical treatment, personnel training and other ways to improve the ability of county hospitals to treat serious illnesses and improve the ability of primary medical institutions to receive treatment.

Provincial and municipal medical institutions actively organize and have selected medical personnel with middle and senior titles who have practical experience, responsibility, strong business ability and good health to take up traveling medical work. These medical personnel gave up their holidays to join the front line, to protect the health and life safety of rural residents silent dedication.

According to the “Thousands of doctors to the grassroots, enhance the grassroots treatment capacity” tour medical work requirements, by the Shanxi Baiqiuen Hospital, the People’s Hospital of Shanxi Province, the first hospital of Shanxi Medical University and the second hospital of Shanxi Medical University, the four hospitals of critical care and critical care experts composed of tour medical team, focusing on the city and county medical institutions Medical resources reserve for critical illness, treatment of critically ill and critically ill patients with new coronavirus infection, implementation of medical quality and safety core system in medical institutions, etc., and conduct municipal critical care faculty training.

The hospital has set up 10 medical teams consisting of 49 personnel to support the treatment of NICU in the county, each team includes attending physicians and above with experience in critical care and respiratory care to ensure that the basic configuration of a NICU “treatment team” is met and the quality of rounds is guaranteed. At the same time, the formation of two provincial-level new coronary infection rounds expert task force to Yangquan City, Changzhi City, Jincheng City, municipal level three general hospitals, designated hospitals, to carry out new coronary infection and critical care patients rounds, medical institutions to implement the core system of medical quality and safety tour guidance work.

Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital urgently dispatched 82 key physicians to each county medical group to carry out treatment of patients with new coronavirus infection. Zhang Jiao-lan, director of the hospital’s medical department, said, “Despite the tight staffing, the hospital arranged medical staff shifts at the first opportunity and made every effort to do the relevant work.” Li Jianzhen, an attending physician at the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Provincial People’s Hospital, was also part of the expert touring medical team working at the Zuoquan County People’s Hospital. Li Jianzhen said, “We went down to the Chinese medicine department of the local hospital and checked the room all morning. Then, for several patients with serious conditions, in-depth discussions were held to guide local treatment.”

According to the work requirements, relevant medical institutions also formed a county-level medical team to help. In accordance with the standard of one medical team per county and no less than 10 people per medical team (including one respiratory and critical care physician each and two Chinese medicine practitioners), more than 1,000 physicians and medical personnel with senior titles in nursing were deployed from 51 hospitals in the province (including 36 tertiary general/specialty hospitals and 15 provincial and municipal Chinese hospitals) to go into key institutions such as county and rural medical institutions and nursing homes and child welfare institutions In order to carry out medical treatment and guidance work.

As a member of the touring medical team, Gao Xiaomei, deputy director of the fifth ward of the Department of Encephalopathy of the Affiliated Hospital of the Changzhi Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was stationed at the Zechu County People’s Hospital in Jincheng City, where she participated in several consultations with critically ill patients and gave acupuncture and Chinese medicine treatments according to their conditions. In particular, after 3 days of Chinese medicine treatment for a patient with acute cerebral infarction with grade 0 muscle strength after “Yang Kang”, the patient’s muscle strength improved significantly and the family was very satisfied with the treatment effect.

The traveling medical work insists on early intervention, early prediction and early treatment, shifting the gate forward, highlighting the management of key populations, ensuring that rural people at high risk of serious illness are treated in a timely and effective manner, ensuring that they are admitted, transferred and treated as much as possible, and protecting the life safety and health of rural residents to the greatest extent.