Visit to Sichuan grassroots health centers: more people returned to the countryside, but the peak of infection did not appear

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In a number of cities and counties in Sichuan grass-roots visits found that both in the village health room or in the township health center, doctors reported that fever patients did not increase. The first day of the year, the second day of the year are on duty in a township health center doctor said, this year from the field to return home for the New Year than the previous two years increased significantly, but he was on duty in the hospital but two days is relatively easy.

Shehong City Renhe Central Health Center

January 24, Sichuan Shehong Renhe town Wolong village health room doctor Xu Feng told reporters that from the situation in his health room, there is no suspected infection of the new crown before and after the New Year, and even the cold seems to be less than in previous years, which more or less let him feel a little surprised.

According to the State Council joint prevention and control mechanism of the Spring Festival work task force data: as of January 22, the total number of national Spring Festival passenger flow exceeded 600 million people. Sichuan as a labor export province, the Spring Festival also ushered in a large number of people returning home. Previously, the heads of several county-level medical institutions in Sichuan told reporters that they were well prepared to deal with possible epidemics during the Spring Festival.

People waiting to pick up medicine at a pharmacy

On Jan. 20, in the lobby of Renhe Central Health Center in Renhe town, there were two people waiting to pick up medicine at the window of the pharmacy on one side, and a dozen people in line at the registration fee and medical insurance settlement on the other side. One more day is New Year’s Eve, many hospitalized people choose this day to discharge home for the New Year.

“Drugs are still tight during the peak season, but now there is no such problem.” A doctor in the pharmacy of the health center told reporters that after the first wave of the epidemic peak in mid to late December, the drug problem has now eased.

Two people in the outpatient corridor waiting to be seen

On Jan. 20, only two people were waiting in the outpatient corridor of the health center, and only three infusion patients and one accompanying family member were in the infusion room on the second floor of the outpatient clinic. The nucleic acid testing window on the left side of the hospital, there is a sampler on duty, but there is no one doing nucleic acid. The whole hospital looked extraordinarily cold. In contrast, the street outside the hospital gates was bustling with activity, with stores on both sides of the street doing a brisk business, and the spacious streets becoming crowded with people buying New Year’s Eve goods and passing vehicles. In order to solve the problem of congestion in the field town during the Spring Festival, the town government staff manned various intersections to guide the one-way circulation of vehicles in the field town.

Government staff guiding traffic at intersections in a congested field town

Congestion of people and vehicles in the field town

Hospital nucleic acid testing site

The hospital’s nucleic acid testing site is located in the village of Wolong, where the six rooms are located in the upper field entrance of the town, and on January 20, near 12:00 p.m., Xu Feng was eating lunch, and several young people were sitting at the entrance waiting for him, while several patients were receiving infusions in the health room. He said, a month ago at the peak of the epidemic, he a small health room, a day to see sixty to seventy patients, there is no time to eat lunch.

He said there were not many people in the countryside at that time, and those who were outside had not yet returned, so hospitals and clinics were probably the most crowded places in the whole town, but now there are fewer people. What surprised him the most was that “cold patients seem to be much less than in previous years during the same period”.

Yanting County Yulong Town Health Center

With Xu Feng have the same feeling, there is also Yanting County Yulong Health Center fever clinic on duty doctor Wang Bo. The first day of the year, the second day of the year are on duty in the hospital Wang Bo said, this year, the field to return home for the New Year than the previous two years increased significantly, the third day of the year, he finished his shift home, driving through Yulong town with 15 minutes, which in the usual two or three minutes to pass. But he was on duty at the hospital but two days was relatively easy.

“Not only fewer people with colds and fevers, even less people fighting after drinking and falling.” Wang Bo said that on duty for two days, he only received more than 10 patients a day.

A month ago, here, as in many primary health centers, a large number of patients with fever symptoms poured into the hospital, and health care workers were infected, and the hospital faced unprecedented pressure to attend. The question of whether the mass movement of people during the Spring Festival would bring a new wave of infections became a common concern.

“Now it seems that this concern should not arise for the time being.” A primary care doctor told reporters that he believes that after the first wave of peak infections, the population already generally has antibodies, which is probably the main reason why there is no peak in the outbreak during the Spring Festival.

Public Health Center, Yuelai Town, Dayi, Chengdu

“Is there a risk of infection after the return trip from home? Judging from the national performance, this concern has been redundant. Halfway through the Spring Festival holiday, there has been no large-scale outbreak.” Hu Yang, deputy director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, also said in a recent media interview, “Everyone has just been infected, there are still antibodies in the body, and the probability of re-infection in the short term is relatively low.”