The epidemic is severe, public hospitals are overloaded with services, and the emergency room is full of confirmed patients waiting to be admitted. The HA is currently researching a collaborative plan with private hospitals to transfer some patients to private hospitals for management.
However, the Sanatorium and Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital indicated that they will cooperate with the plan, in which the Sanatorium and Hospital will support the Li Ka Shing Foundation to further explore feasible solutions to assist public hospitals in receiving patients, such as some cancer patients.
However, the two hospitals respectively stated that they would not accept patients with new coronary pneumonia for their treatment, worrying about the risk of in-hospital transmission.
The Sanatorium and Hospital stated that it will support the cooperation of the Li Ka Shing Foundation to further explore feasible solutions to assist the public hospital in accepting patients, but will not accept patients with new coronary pneumonia for treatment.
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The Sanatorium and Hospital stated that it would support the collaborative plan between the HA and private hospitals to receive patients who were not referred by the HA for non-COVID-19 pneumonia. However, during the epidemic, the hospital also accepted some pregnant women who were referred by the HA in labor. nursing and caesarean section, and patients with other conditions transferred from public hospitals.
However, as for the hospitalization arrangement for confirmed patients with new coronary pneumonia, the spokesman said that since the hospital authority and the centre for health protection are still coordinating the handling, the prerequisite for receiving infected people is that they meet the requirements of isolation facilities, such as ventilation systems. arrangements and negative pressure ward facilities, referring to the fact that private hospitals do not have sufficient isolation facilities.
If receiving patients with new coronary pneumonia, there is an opportunity to increase the risk of nosocomial transmission.
Li Ka-shing, former chairman of the Changhe Department.
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In addition, the Sanatorium and Hospital stated that it will maintain close cooperation with the Li Ka Shing Foundation to further explore feasible solutions to assist the hospital in accepting patients, such as some cancer patients.
Sanatorium currently has nearly 200 resident specialist doctors, fully cooperating with the Li Ka Shing Foundation's plan.
The hospital also mentioned that it has mobilized all medical staff in the hospital to fully support the fight against the epidemic and reduce the pressure on public hospitals, including continuing to provide specialist consultation services in various departments, strengthening outpatient services, and providing the public with rapid COVID-19 antigen tests and nucleic acid tests. It refers to arranging tests immediately for some patients with suspected new coronary pneumonia symptoms. After confirming that they are non-new coronary pneumonia patients, they will be diagnosed and treated immediately.
St. Paul's Hospital said it will not accept new crown patients due to isolation facilities and personnel training issues.
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St. Paul's Hospital stated that considering the isolation facilities and personnel training issues, it will not accept new crown patients, but it can accept other non-new crown patients according to the use of the facilities, provided that the hospital's medical staff or authorized doctors take care of them. In line with unified management, rather than purchasing beds by the government.
The hospital has signed a number of public-private partnership agreements with the HA last year to accept patients at a discounted price, including patients in obstetrics, fractures, breast cancer, and patients awaiting gastroenteroscopy, computer scans, and MRI. Refer patients.
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