Number of fever outpatient visits in rural areas of Guangxi declines

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The picture shows the training session on medical treatment of new coronavirus infection in Pinggui District, Hezhou City.　

Reporter 12 from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Health and Health Commission was informed that Guangxi is strong and orderly promotion of rural areas of the new coronavirus infection treatment work, the number of fever outpatient clinic visits in rural areas further decline, the region’s grassroots epidemic peak has passed smoothly.

It is reported that Guangxi constructs “five levels of secretary” to grasp the responsibility system of rural epidemic prevention and control, primary medical and health institutions fever clinic should be set up as much as possible, should open as much as possible. At present, the region’s primary medical and health institutions have opened fever clinic (outpatient) 1433, to achieve full coverage. Each clinic is equipped with the appropriate medical staff, ventilation facilities and medical equipment to receive patients normally. From December 21, 2022 to the present, more than 1.22 million fever patients have been seen, effectively meeting the demand of the public to see a doctor for fever.

Guangxi’s health and wellness department organized grassroots teams to visit households and register key people, classifying them according to their age, underlying diseases and other information to ensure that no one is missed and information is fully covered. At present, Guangxi has fully completed the health survey of key people aged 65 and above with a total of 5,890,700 people, and made three categories of red, yellow and green classification, including key people (red) 641,700 people, accounting for 10.9%; secondary key people (yellow) 1,226,200 people, accounting for 20.8%; general people (green) 4,022,800 people, accounting for 68.3%. According to different groups of people, refine the services such as rounds, health monitoring, home medication guidance and timely referral.

Guangxi has taken a number of initiatives to do its best to ensure the supply of drugs at the grassroots level and initially alleviate the problem of drug shortage at the grassroots level. In terms of equipment allocation, 13,000 finger-clamp oximeters, more than 1,000 oxygen machines and other equipment have been allocated one after another, and more than 29,000 oximeters have recently been allocated for village health offices in the region, all of which are used for medical consultation and treatment for grassroots people in villages and towns.

According to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Health and Wellness Commission, Guangxi medical treatment work in an orderly manner, through timely treatment of patients attending the hospital, do a good job at home to guide the medication of infected people and other initiatives, see the sick people get timely treatment, the region’s epidemic is relatively stable. The total number of febrile patients seen in Guangxi peaked on December 22, 2022, with 118,537 people, and then began to gradually decline. As of January 10, 2023, the number of fever outpatient visits in the region had dropped to 10,454, with a simultaneous downward trend in the number of visits in all cities.

Guangxi has issued notices related to the conduct of rounds of consultation services in grassroots areas, etc. Health centers in all areas have sent rounds of consultation teams to villages and towns, providing rounds, consultation services, and publicity on virus-related knowledge. Guangxi also compiled courseware such as interpretation of grass-roots prevention policies for new coronavirus infection and key points of personal protection, and guided localities to carry out comprehensive training for grass-roots medical and nursing personnel, with more than 120,000 participants.

At the same time, Guangxi around the co-ordinated arrangements of grassroots medical institutions medical and nursing staff, the region’s second-level hospitals are assigned to the grassroots medical and health institutions 1718 people, the grassroots medical institutions are also the formation of medical and nursing reserve team, the recruitment of retired doctors and winter vacation returned to the home medical students a total of more than 350 people, emergency enrichment of grassroots medical and nursing staff team, focusing on supporting the fever clinic and other departments, to ensure that the rescue and treatment work required manpower. (End)