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Written by: Zhu Yashuang and Yu Ruijing
2020-01-25 19:19
Last updated: 2020-01-25 20:47The number of confirmed cases of pneumonia in Wuhan in Hong Kong has increased to five. The Hospital Authority announced today (25th) that when a female patient was diagnosed with the disease in Tuen Mun Hospital, the female patient was placed in a non-vacuum unit in the hospital. Negative pressure ward stays for about 3 to 4 hours. Zhong Jianli, Director of Quality and Safety of the Hospital Authority, acknowledges that the incident may have an impact on staff or patients and apologizes. Seen at Tuen Mun Hospital in Hong Kong at 01 pm, at least seven people were taken to isolation wards.
Female patient stays in trauma ward for two hours with daughter and son-in-law
Guo Delin, the director of infection control at Tuen Mun Hospital, apologized to the affected people on behalf of Tuen Mun Hospital. He said that the incident involved a 62-year-old female patient who went to Tuen Mun Hospital at about 8.30 pm on January 23 with her daughter and son-in-law, a family of three. The nurse at the triage station asked the patient for medical records and travel history. After learning that the female patient was from Wuhan, she detected her temperature and found that she had a fever, so she arranged for the family of three to wait for a doctor in the suspected infection area of the triage station. At about 10 pm, the doctor saw the three patients and thought they might be infected. Although the doctor had a negative pressure room, but there were patients using it at that time, the doctor hoped to arrange a room suitable for a family of three to wait together. In a ward (trauma ward) with a filter in the trauma ward, the door was often closed, and the doctor "intuitively felt fit", so they arranged to wait in the room to go to the isolation ward. Until about 12 pm, the three were ordered to stay in the isolation ward, and the three stayed in the trauma ward for about 2 hours.
Non-negative pressure ward air exits the "cold lane"
Guo Delin pointed out that because the room has non-negative air pressure, the air will circulate. When the door is opened and closed, the air will exit the "cold alley." Because the trauma ward is located in the X-ray position, other patients will go to the X-ray. Later, they were suspected of being at risk of infection, so they reported the incident to the General Office of the Hospital Authority and the Department of Health, and invited experts to Tuen Mun Hospital to check whether other patients would be affected. Experts came to inspect today.
X-ray waiting area affected 11 patients are in close contact
Mo Junqiang, deputy administrative director of Tuen Mun Hospital, said that the Chief Infection Control Director and health protection experts of the Hospital Authority today conducted a site inspection to review the opportunity and scope of air outflow from the trauma ward. After the inspection, it is believed that the affected area is an X-ray waiting area. Mo Junqiang pointed out that the experts checked the list of patients appearing in the X-ray waiting area and found that 11 of them met the definition of close contact, including 4 men and 7 women, aged between 18 and 88, and 5 of them were still in Tuen Mun. The hospital has been hospitalized. Six patients have been discharged. The hospital and the Center for Health Protection will follow up the situation of 11 patients. They will also follow up if they are accompanied at the time or appear in the X-ray waiting area. These patients will be quarantined. quarantine. Another male insurer who has been on duty in the emergency room for a long time also needs to be isolated. Mo Junqiang also said that the Tuen Mun Hospital was cleaned and disinfected regularly every day. After each use, the trauma ward was cleaned and disinfected according to established procedures.
"I don't believe it will affect the central air conditioning in the hospital."
The trauma ward is a positive pressure ward and is located in the emergency room. Mo Junqiang pointed out that there is a high-efficiency filtration system in the room. The high-efficiency filtration system can filter out bacteria and viruses in the ward, including known airborne viruses. Normal operation, "I don't believe it will affect the central air conditioning in the hospital."
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The doctor involved has experience in arranging trauma wards for three people at the same time
Mo Junqiang said that because the patient is a family of three, the doctor in question hopes to find a spacious ward for consultation with three people at the same time. Since the trauma ward is an independent ward, there is no consultation, and he is a very experienced Doctors. Guo Delin said, "My colleagues are happy, because the impact is so great." He said that the hospital will follow up. There is only one negative pressure ward in the hospital, but there are two consultation rooms with independent air ventilation systems. If the negative pressure ward is used, it is ideal to arrange patients in two consultation rooms. Since the trauma ward is used from time to time, it will be indicated in the future that patients with infectious diseases cannot be placed to remind medical personnel to avoid similar incidents. He also said that patients with fever were arranged to wait at the triage station with masks to separate them from non-fever patients.
Guo Delin pointed out that Tuen Mun Hospital has always had a lot of emergency patients. The medical staff is constantly working, "not necessarily a lot of stranded." If the community breaks out, it will be a problem faced by emergency hospitals in Hong Kong. The Hospital Authority will consider how to handle a larger number of patients. The emergency level has now been upgraded. It will reduce non-emergency services and strengthen emergency services because the public needs to make adjustments.
A 62-year-old female patient was diagnosed with the third case of Wuhan pneumonia yesterday (24th). She went to the Accident and Emergency Department of Tuen Mun Hospital the night before and is now in stable condition. Zhong Jianli, Director of Quality and Safety of the Hospital Authority, today (25th) received a call from the infection control officer of Tuen Mun Hospital, revealing that the medical staff had not sent the female patient to the negative pressure ward according to the procedure and stayed in the non-negative pressure ward for about 3 To 4 hours, the incident may affect employees or patients, Zhong Jianli apologized to the public for the incident.
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