According to Taiwanese media reports, 41 fathers in New Taipei City took a 6-month-old baby boy with a high fever to the emergency room of Chang Geng Memorial Hospital in Linkou on April 28, but the medical staff asked him to queue up and register for about an hour. The baby boy's condition took a sharp turn for the worse. After emergency treatment, he was still declared dead. The family angrily controlled delays in treatment. New Taipei City Councilman Su Hongqin questioned today that SOP should be set for emergency and severe medical treatment for infants and young children under one year old to prevent similar regrets from happening.
Su Hongqin said that the 6-month-old baby had a high fever, and the hospital asked his family to wait in line, but the child unfortunately passed away after waiting for an hour. Some people also shared their personal experience. The child had an emergency and the parents went to the emergency room and were blocked outside, but the parents couldn't help but rush into the emergency room to deal with it urgently.
Su Hongqin believes that the rate of infants and young children under 1 year old has a high incidence of emergency and severe illness. He asked the Municipal Health Bureau to set a set of SOP procedures to prevent children from going to the emergency department to seek medical treatment and even having a high fever of 39 or 40 degrees. He was also asked to wait for registration, delaying the golden treatment time.
Liu Junhao, the Health Bureau, responded that the central government had previously formulated relevant regulations that if an emergency or critically ill patient needs medical treatment, he can call 119 directly for treatment.
