What does a hospice hospital mean?

Shelter hospitals are constantly being built in many places in China, firstly to effectively control the spread of COVID-19, and secondly to effectively improve the work efficiency of medical staff, rationally allocate medical resources and avoid waste.

The original intention of establishing shelter hospitals in many places is to control the rapid spread of COVID-19 and achieve the goal of social elimination under our current epidemic prevention measures? The so-called "social zero elimination" means reducing the number of controlled areas and closed controlled areas and minimizing the occurrence of large-scale transmission. At present, the most popular strain in China is Omicron strain, and the incubation period of this mutant strain is obviously longer. Due to the enhanced adaptability to human body in mutation, the symptoms after infection are not obvious, and the improvement of vaccination rate in China, the number of mild patients and asymptomatic patients increased sharply during the epidemic in China. Because these patients can not be screened out in time and become the source of further spread of the epidemic, it is necessary to isolate asymptomatic and mild patients, so isolating these patients in a shelter hospital is the most effective way to cut off the transmission chain.

The establishment of hospice hospitals is also for the rational distribution of medical resources. If asymptomatic and mild patients are sent to designated hospitals for treatment according to the previous isolation measures, it will consume a lot of medical resources and bring a serious burden to the medical system. The space of the hospice hospital is open, ordinary patients can take care of themselves or help each other, and the medical resources consumed are very small, so more resources can be saved and put into the first-line screening work.

The purpose of building a shelter hospital is to restore the normal life of residents as soon as possible. If designated hospitals and hotels are used for isolation, it will undoubtedly increase the economic burden of residents and affect the recovery of industrial economy. In the past, gyms were borrowed from isolated places, which also caused risks such as cross-infection. Therefore, it is very necessary to look at the construction of refuge hospitals from a long-term perspective and play an important role in restoring economic development and restoring the normal life of residents.