Specialists sink down to the level of treatment, smooth referral - Shandong Jiaozhou to improve the rural epidemic "to protect health, prevent serious illness" treatment

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Since the optimization and adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control policy, Wu Shuangquan, as the executive director of the Department of Cardiology of Jiaozhou Hospital of Tongji University Affiliated Eastern Hospital, sank to support eight primary medical institutions such as Lixi Community Health Center and Puji Town Health Center in the Medical Community, and together with his colleagues, took up the heavy responsibility of “health protection and prevention of serious illness” in rural areas.

“The key is ‘fast’!” In the Rizhik community health center, just after checking the room Wu Shuangquan opened his cell phone, showing reporters a number of WeChat group of doctors to exchange the treatment of patients. The team of doctors will provide health services and follow-up management for key populations, and refer seriously ill patients to higher-level hospitals at the first time.

The picture shows Wu Shuangquan (center) studying the patient’s condition with his colleagues at the Lixi Community Health Center.

Experts sink, graded diagnosis and treatment, has become an important initiative to prevent and control rural epidemics in Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province, “to protect health and prevent serious illnesses”, to achieve “small diseases at the grassroots level, large diseases to the hospital, rehabilitation to the community”.

In order to do a good job of “protecting health and preventing serious illnesses”, Jiaozhou City has established and improved the mechanism of medical community doctors’ sinking support and graded treatment for new coronavirus infected patients, set up three graded treatment networks: Jiaozhou Hospital of Dongfang Hospital of Tongji University, Jiaozhou Central Hospital and Jiaozhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, organized medical community leading hospital experts to sink to support the grassroots, and regularly The leading hospitals of the Medical Community are organized to sink to support the grassroots level and carry out regular rounds and emergency referral services. At the same time, the family doctor contracting service is used to guide patients to seek primary care, and 536 grids are formed through the way of 1 superior physician + 1 health center physician + N rural doctors to improve the referral mechanism among the hospitals in the medical community, so as to achieve primary care and orderly referral of related patients.

The picture shows Wu Shuangquan (second from the left) checking in with colleagues at the Rizhik Community Health Center.

The reporter visited a number of township health centers and village health offices in Jiaozhou City and found that thanks to this working mechanism, many township health centers and village health offices in Jiaozhou City are in good order.

In the consultation room on the first floor of the Shahe village health room in Jiaozhou City’s Puji Town, village doctor Gong Hanshai is seeing patients for the villagers. The spacious consultation room has clear windows and a whole row of medicine cabinets with all kinds of medicines. Gong Hanshai was operating the computer to record the situation for the patients. Another village doctor, Chen Haifeng, was busy preparing various kinds of infusion drugs for patients in the dispensing room.

Gong Hanshai, a village doctor at Shahe Village Health Office in Jiaozhou City’s Puji Town, is sitting in the clinic.

“The village health office mainly assumes the role of a ‘sentinel’, and once there are villagers with serious illnesses, we help to contact them for referral at the first time.” Gong Hanshuai said that the graded diagnosis and treatment mechanism allows the smooth operation of epidemic treatment in Shahe Village. While doing a good job in the daily intake of the village health office, he and his colleagues also make regular visits to the elderly with underlying diseases in the village to keep abreast of their health conditions and help refer patients in need.

The reporter learned in the interview that Jiaozhou City also further strengthens the preparation of drugs and materials and other preparations to strengthen the construction of software and hardware for graded treatment. Nearly 50 million yuan was invested to purchase 1,439 units (sets) of critical care equipment; strengthen oxygen reserves and equip 3,091 pulse oximeters to ensure that each health center (community health service center) has 20 and each village health room has 2; strengthen medical treatment drug reserves, medical institutions at all levels reserve three months of relevant drugs on the basis of daily dosage.