Gansu Lintao: "grid services + multi-linkage" to build a solid rural epidemic prevention and control barrier

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In this nine-nine cold days, dripping water into ice season, Gansu Province Lintao County Tao Yang town Kezuo village mass Yong Zhilan home but warm, village doctor Yue Caihua is visiting her condition.

Yong Zhilan is 84 years old, suffering from hypertension, diabetes and other basic diseases, and is the key management object in the village. A few days ago, Yong Zhilan had a headache and fever. Yue Caihua checked her at home and confirmed that she was infected with the new crown. In view of the old man’s age and mobility problems, she was treated with home medication.

Medical staff carrying out treatment.

Every morning, Yue Caihua and the contracted doctor would take turns to visit the elderly with a medicine box on their backs and instruct them on the medication. At present, the elderly’s symptoms have improved significantly. In the past half month, Yue Caihua has received dozens of calls from people asking for medical advice or help every day.

“My cell phone is on 24 hours a day, and some elderly people who have basic diseases and have mobility problems, I go to the door.” Yue Caihua said, for the key management of infected people, she will visit or call back every day, asking about blood pressure values, cold symptoms and other conditions.

In the past few days, Lintao County has closely focused on the overall requirement of “protecting health and preventing serious illness”, continued to optimize rescue and treatment measures, improved the county and village three-level grid service system and linkage mechanism, reasonably deployed medical resources and strength, comprehensively enhanced the level of medical rescue and treatment capability, and built a solid barrier of rural epidemic prevention and control.

In order to facilitate infected patients to get timely medical treatment services, Lintao County takes village health room as the basis, gives full play to the health testing management role of village doctors, village cadres and contracted doctors of township health hospitals, and implements visiting and telephone inquiry systems. At present, the county has achieved full coverage of 335 village (community) health management service doctors.

Medical and nursing staff carrying out medical treatment services.

Lintao County conducts large-scale, carpet-type mapping and survey, incorporates senior age, patients with basic diseases and maternity into the management of key populations, and prepares fundamentally to deal with patients with critical illnesses. According to statistics, up to now, there are 7,251 key people, 12,049 sub-focus people and 47,930 general people in the county.

Recently, Wang Junfang, a 32-week pregnant villager from Liujia Haotou Village in Shanying Township, suddenly developed symptoms such as chest tightness and shortness of breath, and was found to be infected with the new coronavirus after a checkup at the township health center, which immediately transferred her to the county people’s hospital.

“We have divided all departments into three levels. Among them, the departments of respiratory and critical care medicine, geriatrics, infection medicine and cardiovascular medicine are divided into the first level, and the medical resources of other departments are tilted to the departments of the first level, optimizing the patient admission process, and doing all the admissions for those with serious infections to ensure that patients with acute and critical illnesses are treated in a timely manner.” Li Yue, president of Lintao County People’s Hospital, said.

In order to let the masses see the disease and see the disease nearby, Lintao County insists on full coverage of fever clinic and consultation room on the basis of strengthening medical supplies and drug guarantee, should open as much as possible, should set up as much as possible, at present a total of 2 fever clinics and 29 consultation rooms are set up and opened. At the same time, actively supplement the “120” emergency power, and equip all 335 villages (communities) in the county with non-emergency transfer vehicles, ensuring in principle that all key people can seek medical treatment in time within half an hour.

Lintao County Party Secretary Xu Shude said, under the new stage of epidemic prevention and control situation, will further accelerate the county’s medical resources “quality expansion” and rural medical level re-improvement, try to meet the masses’ demand for medical treatment, all-round and all-cycle protection of people’s health.