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Epidemic | Four patients received prescriptions from private doctors for new crown oral medicine, and there are still places left in the designated clinics of the HA

2022-04-20T03:13:36.067Z


The government provides free oral antiviral drugs for COVID-19 to private doctors and prescribes them to suitable patients. So far, more than 150 doctors have relevant drug reserves. The HA said that as of yesterday, four patients had been reported by private doctors as


The government provides free oral antiviral drugs for COVID-19 to private doctors and prescribes them to suitable patients. So far, more than 150 doctors have relevant drug reserves.

The HA said that as of yesterday, private doctors reported that four patients had been prescribed oral Covid-19 drugs.

At present, the designated clinics have not been used up. Students infected with the virus can make an appointment for consultation if necessary.


▼On April 11, the Education Bureau announced that schools will resume classes from April 19▼


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Ho Wan-xia, the chief administrative manager of the Hospital Authority, said on the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "Millennium" that as of Monday (18th), public hospitals had prescribed new crown oral drugs to 27,100 patients, and more than 150 private doctors also had related drug reserves.

As of yesterday, private doctors reported that four patients had been prescribed oral Covid-19 drugs.

Half of the designated clinics are reserved for high-risk people

Ho Wan-xia pointed out that the 23 designated clinics of the Hospital Authority provide more than 4,000 consultation places every day, half of which are reserved for higher-risk groups, including primary school and kindergarten students.

As the epidemic eases slightly, designated clinics have enough places to meet the demand, and patients are urged to seek medical treatment at designated clinics if they feel unwell.

As of 1:00 pm yesterday, 118,600 people had received consultation services, of which 16,600 had been booked through the care hotline.

As for whether the designated clinics will be transferred back to general outpatient clinics, she said that the number of clinics will be adjusted depending on the epidemic situation as soon as the school resumes classes.

Lin Zhexuan, a member of the Legislative Council of the medical and health sector, said on the same program that the information of private doctors who are issued oral medicines for the new crown must be transparent, and the time of consultation for new crown patients must be listed to avoid the risk of cross infection between new crown and non-new crown patients. Clean and wear personal protective equipment.

▼Addresses and contact numbers of designated clinics and drug refill clinics▼


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Relaxation of gathering restrictions | There are no hard indicators to judge what is a serious rebound The Hospital Authority will review the high and rising capacity of the remaining hospital beds: It is not ruled out that the epidemic rebounds The Hospital Authority needs to prepare for the next wave of additional designated hospitals in advance. Public hospitals lost more than 3,300 people last year. It is said that the fifth wave of the epidemic shows that the doctor turnover rate is 6.9% under the epidemic, and the turnover rate of the two departments exceeds 10%. The HA spends 180 million yuan to keep the HA prospective relatives to visit the dying or critically diagnosed patients. Medical monitoring of children's COVID-19 sequelae, HA records 13 children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome and 7 need to be admitted to ICU

Source: hk1

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