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Written by: Li Enci
2021-01-02 11:26
The last update date: 2021-01-02 11:37
Hong Kong has been fighting the epidemic for nearly a year. Earlier, medical staff in public hospitals reported to "Hong Kong 01" that the Department of Health's Health Protection Center has complicated manual procedures and low administrative efficiency, and still uses fax machines to transmit and receive patient information; The documents faxed by the center to the hospital were incomplete, the communication was one-way, and the delay in issuing and lifting the quarantine order affected the work of medical care.
In addition, close contacts of the patient died while waiting to be sent to the quarantine center, causing criticism from the society.
A spokesperson for the Food and Health Bureau revealed yesterday that it is working with the Bureau of Innovation and Technology and other relevant departments to develop an internal information platform specifically for contact tracing, which will collect the information required for contact tracing in a unified way electronically to simplify Current working procedures.
Checking the information, the Innovation and Technology Bureau has stated on December 16 that it is developing a new platform, and has not disclosed when it will be launched.
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A spokesperson for the Food and Health Bureau replied that, in conjunction with the Innovation and Technology Bureau and other relevant departments, an internal information platform specifically designed for contact tracing is being developed, linking multiple relevant departments or institutions and existing information systems. Collect electronically the information needed for contact tracking, simplify the current manual data collection, input and sharing procedures, and speed up the Department of Health's work on contact tracking and testing, quarantine or medical surveillance.
Some medical staff told "Hong Kong 01" earlier that the Health Protection Center still uses fax machines to transmit and receive patient information.
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About 500 people were waiting to be sent to the quarantine center. Chen Zhaoshi once said that the Department of Health was not enough manpower should speak up
The epidemic reached the fourth wave, and the family members of the confirmed cases died while waiting for quarantine.
A 62-year-old woman living in Meitao Building, Meilin Village, was found dead at home on December 12 while waiting for quarantine. Her daughter was diagnosed on the 9th of the same month.
Five days after the woman's death, the Health Protection Center discovered that she was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia.
In addition, Li Yanyan, founder of the Justice League, passed away on December 16 and was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia.
Her husband Xie Chengjun was a close contact, and he was only arranged to be admitted to the quarantine center three days after his wife passed away.
Chief Secretary for Administration Zhang Jianzong revealed on the 19th of last month that about 500 people were waiting to be sent to the quarantine center due to lag.
Outsiders questioned the government’s epidemiological tracking work and quarantine staff shortage. The Secretary for Food and Health, Chen Zhaoshi, also said on the same day that the Department of Health should "voice" if there is insufficient manpower, and that the bureau has immediately deployed internal staff. Including the addition of manpower and vehicles to the Civil Security Forces, the Fire Services Department has also joined in assisting quarantine persons and has handled 500 backlogs.
Maybe the jam line of the fax machine does not return to the phone again. Okay.
In addition to waiting for the delay in quarantine, there are also many problems in the communication between the government and doctors regarding patient isolation and contact tracing.
Earlier, a medical staff told "Hong Kong 01" that the Center for Health Protection still uses fax machines to transmit and receive patient data. "I won’t know that I will receive it or I will receive it. Maybe the fax machine jam line (failure), I don’t know. I don’t want to return to the phone and I’m sure. Sometimes the prophet doesn’t receive it after two hours, and then he faxes again.” And some of the documents faxed to the hospital by the Health Protection Center are incomplete, affecting the work of medical care.” I’ve tried a two-character ID card number, and I’m always surprised that I’m the same person, I can be the first to be diagnosed, I can’t make a mistake!"
The picture shows the staff of the two hotline centers of the Department of Health who answer the public hotlines.
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The low work efficiency has caused the center to delay issuing "quarantine orders" to the confirmed cases. Only the confirmed cases were issued the quarantine orders and the quarantine orders were released on the day when the confirmed cases were discharged; some confirmed cases were not released after waiting for a long time. , Could not be discharged; another close contact was delayed for nearly 27 hours before being sent to the quarantine center and remained in the hospital.
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