According to Taiwanese media reports, the island's publicly funded Qingguan No. 1 has not restricted the number of users. The usage has increased sharply in recent days, leading to serious overruns in the administrative department's budget. It is rumored that on July 1, it plans

According to Taiwanese media reports, the island's publicly funded Qingguan No. 1 has not restricted the objects of use. The usage has increased sharply in recent days, resulting in serious overspending of the administrative department's budget. It is rumored that on July 1, it plans to limit the number of publicly funded objects. However, this move has attracted criticism from the outside world. The Taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association even said that ignoring high-risk subjects may increase moderate to severe disease and death. Some officials said that the local epidemic situation intensified in April, and the use of the publicly funded Qingguan No. 1 was "unexpected", so they considered limiting the number of public funds.

The "Command Center" announced that from April 18, confirmed patients with mild and asymptomatic new coronavirus pneumonia who need home care can use Qingguan No. 1 at public expense. So far, more than 92,000 people have received Qingguan No. 1, with public expenses exceeding 130 million to 150 million yuan (NT$, the same below). On June 20, the "Ministry of Health and Welfare" meeting was reviewed for cost overruns, and it was proposed to use "age" as the standard for providing public-funded COVID-19 relief. People aged 13 to 64 years old who were diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia It will be changed to self-financing, which has been criticized by the outside world as unreasonable.

Officials from the "Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine" said that the adjustment of the standards for receiving public funds for Qingguan No. 1 is indeed related to the insufficient public budget. When the budget was initially estimated, there were only a few hundred confirmed cases per day. However, since May this year, there have been more than 10,000 cases per day. , even reaching 80,000 or 90,000 cases in a single day, an increase of almost a hundred times. The usage of Qingguan No. 1 was only a few hundred copies before April, but it soared to more than 10,000 copies after April. The number of users and the number of users increased greatly, "all of which were unexpected. of".

Officials said that in addition to the increase in the use of the traditional Chinese medicine Qingguan No. 1, the use of other Western medicines, oral antiviral drugs, epidemic prevention supplies, rapid screening reagents, etc., as the epidemic increased, was much larger than expected. Therefore, various departments of the "Executive Yuan" have From the perspective of fighting for budget and epidemic prevention, we certainly hope that it will be used by the "Ministry of Health and Welfare".

The Taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Association stated that ignoring high-risk groups may increase the risk of moderate to severe illness and death. It is recommended that public subsidy targets be expanded to high-risk groups, including people diagnosed with mild symptoms who have any "severe risk factors", such as: fever, Patients diagnosed with sore throat, cough, etc.; patients diagnosed with moderate symptoms with the above mild symptoms and "asthma"; children under 12 years old with confirmed mild or moderate symptoms. Officials of

said that they will generally plan in this direction, but the details still need to be reviewed, because Western antiviral drugs have guidelines related to indications. They are currently discussing with experts to formulate guidelines for the priority candidates for Qingguan No. 1.

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