August 18 Taiwan Chiayi City, from January to July emergency responsibility hospital emergency full notification of 291 cases, an average of 41.5 cases per month. Chiayi City, a hospital emergency room last month more 4, 50 times full, nursing staff do not have time to eat, mental stress to break down and cry. Chiayi City Health Bureau today called on the public not to abuse the emergency resources, try to go to the clinic first to confirm the condition of the disease, and then tracked to a major hospital.
Chiayi Christian Hospital emergency department last month appeared 4, 50 times full, emergency department director Liu Zhongxian (left) today called on the public to implement the examination of the injury triage, do not take the emergency as outpatient care.
"The emergency department is now too busy, do not send patients over first," and "How long do I have to wait for a bed?" This is the hospital emergency personnel and ambulance personnel dialog, and the people to go to the emergency room of the big hospital helpless lament.
The Chiayi City Department of Health analyzed that among the emergency patients, the mildly ill patients were as high as 70%, and the overuse of emergency resources by the mildly ill patients was the main cause of the congestion. Liu Zhongxian, director of the hospital's emergency department, clinically observed that there are about 250 to 300 patients in the emergency room a day, of which about 50 are seriously ill, and 20% of the people examined for injuries of the first and second level. When the emergency room is overcrowded, it not only reduces the quality of medical care and delays the life-saving time of critically ill patients, but also makes the emergency medical staff exhausted and overloaded with work.
According to statistics from the Chiayi City Health Bureau, the number of people treated in the emergency room for influenza-like illnesses in July this year was 6.08 percent more than in the same period last year. Liu Zhongxian said that influenza is not only a good thing at the turn of the seasons, but also easy to infect as long as crowds gather, and that the clinic now has influenza-like illnesses in the form of fast screening and casting of influenza treatments, followed by self-isolation at home.
Reminding people to distinguish between the disease, to the specialized departments to check.