East China’s Jiangsu province has made every effort to allocate medical resources, accelerate the construction of the grass-roots defense line for health protection and prevention of severe diseases, and ensure the stable and orderly progress of the measures to downgrade COVID-19 management.
The community health service center of Moling Street, Jiangning District, Nanjing, was crowded with patients receiving intravenous drip while many patients lined up. With the surge of fever patients, Moling Community Health Service Center arranged for 10 doctors and 12 nurses to be on duty 24 hours a day to ensure that residents seek medical treatment at night.
Zhu Hua, Deputy Director of Moling Community Health Service Center, Jiangning District, Nanjing
We can receive patients with fever and respiratory symptoms 24 hours a day.At the same time we have prepared sufficient drugs to ensure that residents can see and dispense drugs in case of emergency.Our center will expand the coverage of diagnosis and treatment and play the role of sentinel of grass-roots hospitals through the form of family doctor team visiting the Internet online diagnosis and treatment mobile vehicle.
This community hospital has added 20 infusion chairs and merged beds in the inpatient department of the cardiovascular ward to receive COVID-19 positive patients who meet the hospitalization indications.
At the same time, they established a two-way referral mechanism with Jiangning District Hospital to ensure the timely admission and transfer of serious diseases. At the same time, they set up a special TCM health care clinic for patients in the recovery period to be treated with TCM solutions.
Local Resident
My father is 90 years old this year and has symptoms such as cough and dyspnea.The community sent my father to Moling Community Hospital through a family doctor for timely rescue.After a few days, he became more stable.
While improving the treatment capacity of grass-roots hospitals, Jiangsu has also continuously expanded blood oxygen monitoring and oxygen inhalation services.
At the Siwangting Road outlet of Baixinyuan Pharmacy in Yangzhou City, 80-year-old Zhang and his wife were buying cough lozenges and oral liquid.
Not long ago, the couple was infected with COVID-19 and had a slight cough after turning negative. Knowing that the nearby drugstore provides free blood oxygen testing service for residents, they hurried to the store for blood oxygen saturation detection.
Mr Zhang, Resident of Yangzhou
We feel that this service is very good and convenient and we feel relieved.
After infection with COVID-19, there is a hidden danger of inducing "silent hypoxia", which led to the shortage of blood oxygen finger pulse meter. Since January 5, the pharmacy equipped blood oxygen meters in 150 local outlets, providing free blood oxygen saturation detection services for citizens. Seven central outlets provided oxygen inhalation services.
Qi Lianxia, Licensed Pharmacist of Siwangting Road outlet of Yangzhou Baixinyuan Pharmacy
The normal blood oxygen concentration is between 98 and 95 percent If the test shows less than 93% and the patient has chest tightness and shortness of breath we recommend that the customer go to the hospital for medical treatment in time.
