Influenza is raging Xiamen's many hospitals fever outpatient volume has reached record highs

In recent times, the city has entered a highly active period of influenza. The reporter visited the major hospitals to understand that the volume of emergency room visits increased significantly, fever outpatient volume is a record high.

In this regard, yesterday, the Municipal Health Commission issued a corresponding countermeasures, requiring major hospitals to set up additional fever outpatient clinics in the hospital, expanding the waiting area.

In addition, the public can through the? The beautiful Xiamen intelligent health? The city's major hospitals and pediatrics and fever clinics need to wait in line time, the nearest choice of waiting for a small number of hospitals.

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Many hospitals fever clinic volume record high

Yesterday morning at 10:30 am, the reporter came to Xiamen Haicang Hospital. In the fever clinic, the reporter saw, patients than usual significantly increased, mostly children. Ms. Wu, a citizen, told reporters that her two children have a fever. I took a vacation to bring my children to see the doctor, I did not expect so many people in line!

Parents like Ms. Wu are in the minority, and some of them waited for more than three hours. According to the city Haicang Hospital statistics, pediatric fever clinic on June 20, the outpatient volume of 977 people. City Haicang Hospital, deputy director of the medical department Li Xing introduced, the past fever clinic daily minor consultation volume of nearly a hundred times, since June, a single day pediatric outpatient emergency room as well as fever clinic received a record high.

The same scene is also staged in Xiamen many hospitals.

From Xiamen Children's Hospital learned that the recent hospital single-day outpatient emergency and fever outpatient volume are record high, June 20, the hospital outpatient emergency 3842, of which the fever outpatient clinic received 1617. 18:00 to 8:00 on June 20-21, the fever outpatient clinic volume of the hospital reached 829, and last year's fever outpatient clinic single-day volume of up to no more than 700 people. Doctors, fever clinic visits to the children, 80% -90% of children with influenza, to kindergarten, elementary school children are predominant.

Recently, Xiamen University Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital fever outpatient clinic at the peak of a day to receive the number of people is 10 times the single day in May. Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently averaged more than 1,000 daily visits to the fever clinic.

Response

Additional manpower to increase the fever outpatient clinic

In response to the city's major hospitals fever outpatient clinics for a continuous and significant increase in the situation, the Municipal Health Commission issued a corresponding countermeasures, and has been issued to major hospitals to implement.

Xiamen Municipal Health Commission, medical administration and management of the fourth level researcher (presiding over the work) Chen Lan told reporters that this wave of influenza came suddenly, the original fever outpatient clinics and the number of health care workers in a short period of time can not meet the needs of the patients, so the Municipal Health Commission asked the major hospitals to set up more fever outpatient clinics within the hospital and to expand the waiting area. Due to the large number of patients, the volume of nucleic acid testing has also greatly increased, and the waiting time for nucleic acid reports is long.? Chen Lan said the Municipal Health Commission has also asked major hospitals to increase the number of nucleic acid testing machines and to advance the time of the report as much as possible. At the same time, the urgent transfer of goods to increase the city's stock of antiviral drugs.

Compared with the island, the island outside the area of the fever clinic less, more pressure. While the hospital is expanding its clinics, the Municipal Health Commission is also urgently dispatching pediatricians from community health centers to the hospital for support.

In the face of the raging influenza, Xiamen University Affiliated Sun Yat-sen Hospital hospital multi-departmental linkage, fever outpatient clinic additional medical staff, additional clinic rooms, improve the waiting environment, optimize the process of diagnosis; nucleic acid rapid test 2 hours out of the report, timely deployment of supplemental antiviral medication, fever outpatient clinic 24-hour operation, to protect the public's health.

In order to meet the surge in demand, Xiamen City Hospital fever clinic and personnel inputs than the usual increase of more than three times; at the same time, the hospital fully optimized to simplify the process, minimize the patient waiting time. The city hospital also for children patients with the characteristics of the introduction of children's influenza Chinese medicine treatment and Chinese medicine preventive formula, the public online and offline can be prescribed, delivery to the home.

Xiamen Children's Hospital Executive Director Zhuang Deyi introduced the hospital fever clinic clinic increased to 7, the emergency room clinic is also open to 5, to ensure that the clinic 24-hour operation. The reporter learned that the city children's hospital has also optimized the process of consultation, yesterday, for the holding of the green health code, two weeks without a history of travel in high-risk areas of the child, after the nucleic acid test can be carried out after the consultation and related checks, after the consultation without waiting for the nucleic acid report on the hospital, avoiding a long time to stay gathered.

Recently, Xiamen Haicang Hospital has six pediatricians to see the outpatient clinic a day, adult fever clinic also has two doctors outpatient clinic, dynamic scheduling, timely reinforcement, to protect the public access to health care.

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Children with six types of symptoms should seek medical attention

Recently, including Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian and other southern provinces have issued a flu warning, according to the National Influenza Center released the 23rd weekly report of 2022, the flu epidemic

Reporters learned that early, especially within 48 hours of the onset of the application of anti-influenza virus drugs can significantly reduce the incidence of serious illness and death of influenza, which is more widely used is oseltamivir. The majority of the public friends, because the use of drugs have indications and contraindications, so be sure to use the drug under the guidance of clinicians.

The child is sick, the whole family tossed. Xiamen Children's Hospital Vice President Hong Shaoxian introduced the flu symptoms are obvious, most of the children will have a headache and dizziness, general weakness, muscle aches and pains, early fever, after 3 days of fever appeared after coughing, sore throat, runny nose.

He analyzed the rapid growth in the number of children with influenza and days of rainy weather has a certain relationship, ? Prolonged rain, high humidity, virus toxicity; children's outdoor activities to reduce, resistance to decline, easy to ? be trapped?

Hong Shaoxian introduced, if the child has a fever but the body temperature is below 38.5 ℃, mental state and appetite is better, you can first let the child drink more water, more observation; temperature more than 38.5 ℃, you can take ibuprofen, acetaminophen and other antipyretics. If the child's temperature gradually drops and his or her mental state becomes better, there is no need to go to the hospital for the time being. However, if the following six conditions occur, it is still necessary to seek medical attention: high fever over 39 ℃, cold hands and feet, vomiting a lot, poor mental state, weakness, dripping, and in the past the fever had a convulsion.

He reminded that it is best not to take public **** transportation during the visit, to be well protected, wear a mask, hands do not touch the mouth and nose, and keep a distance from others in line.

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