The local epidemic in Taiwan continues to heat up, with cases exceeding 1,000 for 12 consecutive days. In addition to people rushing to grab rapid screening reagents, hospitals in the Shuangbei region are overwhelmed by screening people from day to night, and the medical capacity is tight. Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe adopted the "amnesty principle" to allow medical and epidemic prevention personnel to screen and isolate themselves and not be tied up by the "3+4" policy. Chen Yufeng, chairman of the Taipei Nurses Union, appealed to everyone not to waste emergency room energy and please not to make things difficult for emergency nursing staff. Another medical fan pointed out that in just two hours, the emergency room of a small and medium-sized hospital was filled with people queuing up to be screened. Two rows of admission orders triggered heated discussions among netizens, with some even saying that " A sign of medical collapse."
Su Yifeng, a thoracic surgeon at the Yangming Campus of Taipei United Hospital, complained that from day to night, the hospital is full of people queuing up for examinations. Because there are too many people, people queuing up complain constantly. He lamented, "It's really not that easy to coexist with the virus. ".
Bai Yongjia, director of the emergency surgery department at Hsinchu Mackay Hospital, also said that the emergency room is crowded with people waiting for screening every day. Hospitals in the Shuangbei region are almost overcrowded, and the situation in all counties and cities should be similar.
Bai Yongjia said that the emergency department still has to deal with many moderately and severely ill patients with myocardial infarction, septic shock, major trauma, etc. He appealed to people who have no confirmed family members or who are asymptomatic not to rush to the emergency department for screening out of panic.
Jiang Guanyu, a physician at the Zhongxing Campus of Taipei United Hospital, also pointed out that if people test positive twice, it can be regarded as confirmed and there is no need to go to the hospital for screening.
The Democratic Progressive Party authorities introduced the "3+4" new quarantine system. Ke Wenzhe bluntly said that Taipei City still needs to have an "amnesty principle" to maintain medical capacity. Because if a caregiver who has to take care of the elderly is diagnosed and everyone in the social welfare unit is quarantined, won’t the institution be shut down? Therefore, for people in categories 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 of publicly funded vaccinations, if they come into contact with a confirmed person and are listed, "screening instead of isolation" can be adopted.
Ke Wenzhe complained that the DPP authorities had issued an order, but they still had to prevent the medical and epidemic prevention systems from collapsing. The worst-case scenario would be to follow the model of some overseas places, where no epidemic investigation or quarantine would be carried out, and only those with severe symptoms would be sent to hospital. Doctors; if 10,000 cases are diagnosed every day, it is impossible for 100,000 people to be screened. At that time, they will be forced to deal with clinically severe cases. What is more troublesome is that Taipei City cannot decide its own epidemic prevention policy.
In addition, Taiwan's "Emergency Emergency Room" fan post also shared a photo on the 26th, pointing out that an emergency physician in a small and medium-sized hospital took two dense rows of admission orders, and all patients were queuing up for screening. Judging from the photos, from 7:23 pm to 9:44 pm, in just two hours, at least 44 people poured in to be tested. After the
pictures and text were exposed, Taiwanese netizens sparked heated discussions, "Because I can't buy rapid screening reagents", "I can't do rapid screening even when I go to the clinic. Doctors told me that the rapid screening is gone and they tell me to buy it myself." , "It's always like this when an epidemic breaks out", "Frontline medical care is hard, and the accountability system that was already overworked has now turned into a white hell", "Just say don't crowd the emergency room", "A sign of medical collapse ". (Lin Jingxian/editor)
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