Since the fifth wave of COVID-19 has developed, public hospital doctors and nurses are struggling to take care of patients. All walks of life have called for private doctors and nurses to join the public hospital team. Private hospitals accept public hospital patients and share the pressure on the public hospital system.
At the same time, pharmacists and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners also showed their professionalism to help the medical staff of Qinggong Hospital.
The Food and Health Bureau has launched the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Outpatient Special Treatment Service" scheme to provide free Chinese medicine outpatient rehabilitation services at Chinese medicine clinics and teaching and research centers for those discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for COVID-19.
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The fifth wave of the epidemic struck, and the Pharmacy Service Fund expanded the delivery of medicines to homes at the end of last month to include elderly or disabled homes with positive COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 patients in community isolation facilities. The Hong Kong Association of Licensed Pharmacists also set up a Whatsapp hotline Provide medicine delivery and inquiry services for quarantined people.
Last Tuesday (March 1), the Hong Kong Society of Hospital Pharmacists took the initiative to explain the risks of using various drugs for a list of commonly used drugs to relieve mild symptoms of the new coronavirus.
These timely reminders organized by pharmacists can prevent citizens from seeking a doctor due to misuse.
In the previous waves of epidemics, the role of local TCM physicians was mainly on prevention, treatment and recovery. However, in the fifth wave of the epidemic, infected people were scattered everywhere, and TCM physicians from the community also began to participate in the treatment...
For details, please read "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Issue 307 (March 7, 2022) "
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