The fifth wave of the epidemic "tsunami-like" hit, and it has spread rapidly to this day. Fan Hongling, Chairman of the Hospital Authority, accepted an interview with China News Agency on Tuesday (22nd), saying that the Hospital Authority is fighting the epidemic with "wartime thinking" and is doing its best to fight the epidemic. , reiterated the current key strategy of "reducing deaths, reducing severe illness, and reducing infections".
Fan Hongling recalled the impact of the current wave of the epidemic on Hong Kong. He pointed out that he had learned lessons from experience. It is regrettable that he did not try his best to increase the number of vaccinated people when the epidemic situation was relatively stable, especially for the protection of the elderly in institutions.
In the early days of the fifth wave of the epidemic, a large number of patients were stranded in tents outside public hospitals waiting to be admitted, and the chaos was criticized. Fan Hongling pointed out that the hospital "has gradually streamlined the process of receiving patients and improved the ability to receive patients and treat critically ill patients. After the space for receiving patients has been increased, the backlog of patients waiting to be admitted to the A&E department has been greatly reduced, and patients can receive appropriate treatment faster.
He said that medical resources have always been tight, so the current method of stratified triage is implemented to give priority to patients with higher risk, and priority use of hospital beds, treatment specialists, drugs, etc. on these high-risk patients, to reduce deterioration to severe and death. risks of.
Prepared for a tsunami-like outbreak before the epidemic, but it came too fast and too fast
Looking back on the development of the fifth wave of the epidemic so far, Fan Hongling pointed out, "Before the fifth wave of the epidemic, the SAR government and the Hospital Authority have done a lot of preparations to deal with this tsunami-like epidemic. However, this wave of epidemics is too violent and the development is too high. Quickly.” All the measures that are beneficial to the fight against the epidemic have been exhausted, and the epidemic of the century has been confronted with a wartime mentality, but the reality is beyond Hong Kong’s ability to deal with it, and the central government is required to support it.
Fan Hongling pointed out that in more than a month, the number of confirmed cases has risen sharply from hundreds of cases per day to the peak of more than 50,000 cases per day, and the transmission power is amazing.
The fifth wave of the epidemic not only spread widely in the community, but also spread into residential care homes, causing more than 30,000 elderly residents to be infected. A total of more than 1 million people were infected, and about 6,000 people died of the disease.
Fan Hongling pointed out that they have also learned a big lesson from the epidemic. When the epidemic situation was relatively stable last year, they should increase their efforts to increase the number of vaccinated people, especially strengthening the protection of the elderly in institutions, which may reduce the number of deaths in the fifth wave of the epidemic.
Fan Hongling pointed out that the epidemic situation is far from reaching the inflection point and the isolation camps must be built continuously: Hope the mainland will send thousands of medical staff Fan Hongling: Hope the central government will support doctors and nurses Liang Meifen: Use emergency vaccines when necessary | He hopes to get 10,000 injections by the end of next month and ask the central government to send another Chinese medicine team to assist Hong Kong. What are the tragic similarities in the number of confirmed deaths in residential homes with more than 3,000 deaths?
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