China News Service, Beijing, February 27th (Wei Xianghui) Recently, there have been clusters of seasonal infectious diseases such as influenza and norovirus infection in many provinces, which has aroused great concern.
How should individuals do relevant protection?
How to standardize diagnosis and treatment after infection?
What arrangements have the medical institutions made?
On the 27th, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference to introduce the situation of consolidating major achievements in epidemic prevention and control, and to answer in detail the recent prevention measures for seasonal infectious diseases.
National epidemic situation continues to remain stable
Mi Feng, spokesman of the National Health and Medical Commission, said at the meeting that recently, the national epidemic situation has continued to remain stable.
The epidemic situation in various places is in a state of local sporadic sporadic distribution, and no provinces with obvious rebound of the epidemic situation have been found.
Mi Feng said that it is necessary to pay close attention to the various measures of "Class B and B Management" and consolidate the hard-won major achievements.
It is necessary to optimize the layout of medical and health resources, strengthen the production guarantee and overall allocation of medical materials, and continuously enhance the ability to deal with major epidemics and public health emergencies.
It is necessary to pay close attention to the development of the overseas epidemic situation, maintain the effective operation of the normalized command system, and improve the rapid response level of epidemic monitoring and early warning.
Data map: In early spring, citizens in many places began to go out to enjoy flowers.
Photo by Wang Gang
The global epidemic is still prevalent. Regarding the production and supply of key medical supplies in the next step, Zhou Jian, deputy director of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the following four aspects will be focused on in the future: First, normalize and focus on Production and supply of medical supplies.
The second is to effectively improve the resilience and safety level of the industrial chain of key medical supplies.
The third is to comprehensively improve the emergency support capabilities of medical supplies.
The fourth is to accelerate the development of the pharmaceutical industry.
Zhou Jian introduced that with the joint efforts of various departments, localities and enterprises, the production capacity of various medical materials has been greatly increased in a short period of time. Phenol increased by 4.9 times, invasive ventilator increased by 6.8 times, finger clip pulse oximeter increased by 4.3 times, oxygen generator increased by 2.1 times, and domestic ECMO was successfully approved for listing.
Data map: A "shared medicine box" set up in a community in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Photo by Zhang Yuhuan
Prevent seasonal infectious diseases such as influenza and norovirus
In response to the recent closure of schools and kindergartens due to influenza A and norovirus infections, Guo Yanhong, Director of the Medical Emergency Department of the National Health and Health Commission, said that influenza and norovirus infections are seasonal infectious diseases. The Committee has asked medical institutions at all levels to further strengthen pre-examination and triage, such as fever clinics and bowel clinics, to open as much as possible, and reserve a certain amount of therapeutic drugs. It is necessary to strengthen diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and give active treatment according to the etiology and symptoms, so as to effectively guarantee the medical needs of patients who seek medical treatment.
Guo Yanhong introduced that influenza is a respiratory infectious disease caused by influenza virus infection, which is mainly transmitted through droplets and close contact.
Influenza is a seasonal epidemic every year. Most influenza is a self-limiting disease, but some patients develop severe cases due to pneumonia or other complications, mainly in the elderly, children, pregnant women and those with some chronic underlying diseases. crowd.
Measures to prevent influenza mainly include vaccination, wearing masks, washing hands frequently, ventilation, and reducing the gathering of people.
After flu-like symptoms appear, you should pay attention to rest and self-isolation. People with high-risk factors for severe illness should seek medical treatment in time.
In addition, norovirus mainly causes acute gastroenteritis through digestive tract infection, which is mainly transmitted through contact with infected patients and consumption of virus-contaminated water and food.
Norovirus has relatively strong resistance in the environment, the incubation period after infection is short, and the patient's detoxification time is relatively long, so it is easy to cause transmission among people.
Every year from October to March of the following year is a period of high incidence of norovirus infection. The key places for prevention and control are mainly schools, nursery institutions, and collective units that provide centralized meals.
The preventive measures for norovirus are mainly good hand hygiene and good personal food hygiene.
For example, do not drink raw water, wash fruits and vegetables, and eat cooked vegetables as much as possible, and cook food at high temperature.
The onset of norovirus infection is mainly mild, and the main symptom is vomiting and diarrhea.
Guo Yanhong said that the onset of norovirus infection is also a self-limiting disease. After infection, you should pay attention to replenish water and maintain electrolyte balance. If you have severe vomiting, diarrhea, or risk of dehydration, you should seek medical treatment in time.
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