Over the past weekend, have you responded to the government's call for rapid antigen testing?
The epidemic has eased a little recently, and I feel that the atmosphere in the whole society is not as tense as before. I hope everyone will not relax easily and continue to take epidemic prevention measures.
It has been more than three months since the fifth wave of the new crown epidemic began at the end of last year.
At the height of the epidemic, the number of confirmed patients increased exponentially, posing unprecedented challenges to Hong Kong's public medical system. Perhaps the difficulties we face this time also reflect the challenges facing the entire Hong Kong society.
Written by: Dr Chung Kin-lai, Director of Quality and Safety, Hospital Authority
Hong Kong has built a proud medical service system in the past.
But in the face of an unprecedented virus, policy makers, medical staff and even citizens are all looking for ways to deal with it.
It is not easy to explore the way forward. If we ignore the public sentiment and culture of Hong Kong and blindly apply the effective set of others to Hong Kong's medical system, it may be futile or even counterproductive.
Conversely, if we reject all new approaches without digging into whether they are good or bad, we may eliminate the opportunity to solve the problem.
Taking this fight against the epidemic as an example, we have received strong support from mainland experts and the mainland medical team in Hong Kong. We have introduced new elements in receiving and treating patients, such as adding set-point hospitals and using stratified shunting to reduce deaths and reduce deaths. Severe and reduced infection.
In addition, Hong Kong has also introduced more facilities for receiving patients, such as respite centers and community isolation facilities, as well as more solutions for treating patients, such as arranging more Chinese medicine inpatient and outpatient services to take care of COVID-19 patients and recovered patients. The new elements are all plans drawn from the experience of different places in fighting the epidemic, and they are also the key to fighting the fifth wave of the epidemic.
For patients, it is one more choice, and we know that many patients have responded very positively.
As for some effective measures in the Mainland, such as the "closed-loop" management of medical staff, it is difficult for us to copy the paper and accept all the documents. We can only be flexible and take a rapid antigen test before going to work every day to protect it in another form. patient.
It is said that "where there is danger, there is opportunity". I hope that stakeholders from all walks of life in Hong Kong will seize the opportunity of the current epidemic situation and state support, study the development of the current wave of the epidemic, and learn from the experience of other places to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses. At the same time, they must carefully consider the population of Hong Kong. Structure, public sentiment, culture, etc., to tailor a feasible anti-epidemic path for Hong Kong, in order to prepare for the rebound of the epidemic or the sixth wave of the epidemic.
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