Hunan: multiple initiatives to tighten the "an old and a small" key populations of epidemic prevention safety net

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After the adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control measures, the health and safety of the key people with lower immunity, “one old and one small”, is of great concern. The reporter learned that Hunan has recently stepped up the weaving of a safety net for the “one old and one small” by strengthening community mutual aid, carrying out caring actions, and solidifying the emergency disposal mechanism of key institutions.

The community of Jianxiang Xincun in Changsha is a typical old community, with more than 60% of its residents being elderly. Under the epidemic, many senior citizens and elderly people living alone have difficulty in traveling. For this reason, the community relies on community cadres and party volunteers to form a group of more than 20 “elderly helpers” to help the elderly in the community to “run errands” to purchase supplies on their behalf.

“You have really solved my big problem.” On December 26, 2022, the community resident, Grandma Li, thanked the members of the “Helpers Group” at her door. 77-year-old Grandma Li has a basic disease and lives alone at home, but she is worried about the recent increase in the number of new infections in the community, “I can’t buy food and medicine without going out, and I’m worried about going out. ‘Yang'”. On the same day, the “help group” sent meat, eggs, vegetables and medicine supplies, which made her feel warm.

Members of the “Elderly Helpers” group in the community of Jianxiang Xincun, Changsha, buy supplies for the elderly in the community.

“We have mapped out the special elderly in the community, and appointed two ‘Helpers’ members and a civil affairs officer to contact each household, so that they can find someone when they need it.” Huang Yi, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Jianxiang New Village, told reporters that since December last year, the ‘help group’ has increased the frequency of errands, combined with “door-knocking action”, so that the elderly can get warm services without going home.

The lives and studies of many children in need have been affected by the epidemic. Recently, in Changsha City Guanshaling Street “minor workstation”, staff members went to the families of children in difficulty in the district to distribute free “epidemic prevention health kits” containing masks, alcohol and other materials, arranged for professional social workers at social work stations to provide psychological guidance, and connected with social The social work station has arranged for professional social workers to provide psychological counseling, and has connected with the community to provide online class equipment for many children.

Tang Fangyin, deputy director of the public service office of Guanshaling Street, said that in addition to increasing loving care, in order to ensure that children in distress can seek timely medical treatment and medication after infection, the street has joined hands with the local community health service center to contact contracted family doctors to provide health guidance, while coordinating with medical institutions at all levels to establish a “green channel” for fever outpatient clinics, so that children with severe symptoms can be referred to the doctor in a timely manner. Children with serious symptoms are referred to the clinic in a timely manner.

A social worker from Guanshaling Street Social Work Station in Changsha instructs children in difficulty in Internet classes at home.

The new health care center in Huaihua City, Hunan Province, is one of the county’s larger socialized institutions for the elderly. 72-year-old Grandpa Tang developed a fever and other symptoms of the new coronavirus infection in the center on Dec. 29, 2022, and the center started the emergency disposal mechanism at the first time. “At that time, we urgently placed the old man in an isolation room and contacted the corresponding medical institution for medical treatment of the old man.” Xu Weizhang, the person in charge of Huitong County Min Kang Medical Care Center, told reporters that the “1+1+1+1” medical treatment support mechanism, relying on the elderly institutions to a secondary and above general hospitals, a primary health care institutions, a retail pharmacy, the medical care center elderly medication, referrals are adequately guaranteed.

After a few days of careful care, Grandpa Tang’s health gradually improved, and there was no sign of further spread of the epidemic in the medical and nursing center. “In the next step, the medical and nursing center will continue to strengthen the health monitoring of the elderly, and reasonably allocate the diet to ensure the nutritional supply of the elderly, and make every effort to guard the health of the elderly in the hospital.” Xu Weizhang said.

According to the person in charge of the Hunan Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, in order to improve the emergency response capacity of key institutions, Hunan has recently formed 166 emergency response support teams and 105 emergency response professional teams. At the same time, actively carry out the “care for the elderly and small social organizations in action” epidemic prevention materials donation activities, the convergence of social love warm current, to ensure the supply of key institutions and people medical supplies.