CCTV News:Recently, there has been cooling and snowfall in many parts of the country, and children’s respiratory diseases are in the high season. What is the overall situation of pediatric medical resources in the national maternal and child health care system? What matters should be paid attention to in children’s home care? The National Health and Wellness Commission held a press conference on the 17th to respond to concerns about the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in winter.
According to reports, as children’s respiratory diseases enter a period of high incidence, the National Health and Health Commission has made overall plans to guide and promote maternal and child health care institutions at all levels to expand capacity and increase efficiency, and fully protect children’s medical needs: expand pediatric service resources, guide maternal and child health care institutions to strengthen personnel deployment, and meet children’s medical needs to the maximum extent; Optimize the spatial layout and treatment process, promote the pre-diagnosis inspection service, smooth the green channel for emergency treatment, and gradually realize the grading and stratification of children’s treatment; Promote the "internet plus" service, and reduce the pressure of offline medical treatment through online outpatient follow-up, online prescription, and logistics and delivery of drugs to the home.
At the present stage, China has strengthened children’s health guidance in combination with children’s health care services, continuously increased the popularization of popular science, and provided targeted technical guidance to kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and other institutions with a large number of children to prevent the occurrence of clustered diseases. In response to the problem of home care for children that parents are generally concerned about, industry insiders said that parents should choose to rest at home or seek medical treatment in time according to the changes of children’s condition, do not enter the park or attend classes with illness, and avoid taking antibacterial drugs for their children.
Lu Gen, Director of Respiratory Department of Guangzhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Guangdong Province:Attention should be paid to the interaction of drugs. Do not take antipyretics and compound cold medicines containing antipyretic and analgesic at the same time. At the same time, avoid using Chinese patent medicines with the same function and overlapping components, which will increase the risk of adverse drug reactions. After children get sick, they should choose to rest at home or seek medical treatment in time according to their illness. It is not recommended to enter the park or attend classes, so as to avoid cross-infection.
Chang Zhaorui, a researcher at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of China, said that Covid-19 infection in China is at a low epidemic level, and the BA.2.86 mutant and its subfamilies in Covid-19 account for a relatively low proportion. At present, the public health risk of this mutant in China is low. So far, no unknown new viruses and bacteria have been found in the pathogen monitoring of respiratory diseases in China.