Taiwan‘s Central Epidemic Command Center Chen Shih-chung announced on the 20th the clearance of the Taoyuan Hospital where the cluster of infections took place.
After Taiwan’s first physician contracted New Crown Pneumonia (CCP virus), a hospital cluster infection broke out, accumulating ten confirmed cases in nine days. The government mobilized the military to move the hospital’s patients to other hospitals, and supplies from all walks of Life also poured into the hospital at the first opportunity to show care. Taiwan has been regarded as a model region for global epidemic prevention, and whether the epidemic can be prevented from expanding this Time has become an indicator case.
National Army chemical soldiers in protective clothing stationed at Taoyuan Hospital to disinfect. (Courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense)
When the world was caught in the storm of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Taiwan had a record of two hundred and fifty-three days and eight months of zero confirmed cases. After the first case of infected physician appeared on January 12, there was a breach in The prevention of the epidemic, and a succession of girlfriend nurses, doctors in the same hospital, nurses, and Family members of physicians were diagnosed, and a total of ten people were diagnosed in nine days. The Central Epidemic Command Center qualified this as a cluster infection and community infection at the Ministry of health and Welfare Taoyuan Hospital.
Seventeen years ago, Taiwan once closed the Peace Hospital during an outbreak of SARS (atypical pneumonia), which resulted in the death of many infected people and the death of seven doctors and nurses. After learning the lesson, how to deal with the cluster of infection within the hospital, and whether to close the hospital or not? There are many discussions in Taiwan society.
In response to the cluster infection in Taoyuan Hospital, the Central Epidemic Command Center originally adopted an “out but not in” approach, setting up a command post in the hospital and mobilizing National Army chemical soldiers in protective clothing to disinfect the area. After the ninth day of accumulating ten confirmed cases, Commander Chen Shih-chung announced on the 20th that the Taoyuan Hospital would be emptied immediately.
More than 400 medical staff were isolated for 14 days and more than 200 patients were cleared in 48 hours.
National Army chemical soldiers in protective clothing into the Taoyuan Hospital to disinfect. (Courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense)
Chen Shizhong said: “Now start emptying, one is backward, originally discharged, now to clear backward before transferring. From the risk area before transferring to the hospital to take tests must be negative, after transferring to the hospital must first live in a dedicated isolation ward, fourteen days quarantine period or before moving out first take tests.”
Chen Shizhong also pointed out that the discharge from the risk area Home isolation fourteen-day quarantine period expired to arrange for testing, stay in the hospital to arrange for one person, one room, to implement the compartmentalization and triage. Health care back to the mechanism if the assessment of high risk, will take home isolation, the end of the collection of tests.
The project to empty the hospital and relocate the patients is huge, plus a large number of physicians and nurses isolated for 14 days, adding pressure to the tight medical and nursing manpower. Chen Shizhong said: “At present to yesterday was three fifty-three, today we isolated a total of four hundred and twenty-seven people, has arranged one hundred and sixty-three in the centralized quarantine, the other we will explore their home environment one by one, if it is not suitable, will also be moved to the centralized quarantine to do isolation.”
Chen Shizhong said that Taiwan has no confirmed cases in the past six months, people do have a little laxity in epidemic prevention. He cited the example that when he used to go home, he would want to quickly take off his jacket at the door, and his shoes would have to be sprayed, and his family would remind him, but there was relatively little during this period. Viruses are indeed omnipresent, an extra caution is an extra protection. He called for tighter masks to be worn in public places, alcohol to be worn on the body, diligent disinfection, and the implementation of epidemic prevention by everyone.
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An open letter to the public from the president of the Ministry of Health and Welfare Taoyuan Hospital, Xu Yongnian. (Taoyuan Hospital Facebook)
After the outbreak of infection in the Taoyuan Hospital, former health director Yang Zhiliang named the biggest problem as the failure of physicians to follow SOPs (standard operating procedures). Yang’s remarks drew a chorus of scorn from netizens in support of health care workers. From President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice President Lai Ching-teh, Executive President Su Tseng-chang, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, and many representatives of public opinion have all voiced their support for the medical staff.
The private sector, however, displayed a strong supportive attitude towards Taoyuan Hospital. From breakfast to midnight snack, people from all over the world donated supplies to the Taoyuan Hospital, with encouraging notes reading “You have worked hard on the front line to fight the epidemic”. Some utility companies sent hundreds of steamed buns with eggs and soy milk for breakfast, while some companies sent delicious and rich lunch boxes, and people from as far away as southern Taiwan sent two hundred drinks and biotech companies sent healthy Food. There are even hand-drawn cards, Facebook messages, Facebook “Taoyuan people” society also launched to support medical care, please help Taoyuan medical care together to cheer. Taoyuan Hospital said on Facebook that it was “like seeing an oasis in the desert, full of hope”.
Ministry of Health and Welfare Taoyuan Hospital President Xu Yongnian said through Facebook on the 19th, the hospital currently has six doctors and nurses confirmed, about a hundred doctors and nurses and administrative staff are under quarantine. In addition to paying tribute to his colleagues and looking forward to their early recovery, he also launched a series of contingency measures to close the active wards of the confirmed doctors and nurses and clear the floor control area to avoid the expansion of infection in the hospital. The patients in the negative pressure isolation ward have all been moved out, and the remaining patients will be assisted in transferring to the hospital; the fastest speed will be used to move the patients out to ensure patient safety.
The hospital’s staff has been working diligently for a year to participate in the epidemic prevention campaign, with a peak of more than 30 confirmed patients a day, and believes that the hospital has sufficient capacity to respond to the crisis and accept criticism and instruction from the outside world.
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Taiwan Vice President Lai Qingde’s personal letter of solidarity with the medical staff of Taoyuan Hospital. (Taoyuan Hospital Facebook)
The two days on the Internet in Taiwan is circulating a former health director Yang Zhiliang a few months ago, in the MRT car pulled down the mask to talk on the phone photos, was criticized for epidemic prevention is also not true. When asked about this, Chen Shizhong asked the Taiwanese society that “there is no need for a witch hunt”.
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Yang Zhiliang suggested that the government should give health care workers as a backstop. Many health care workers are afraid to go home and cannot live in the duty room every day. He suggested that health care workers should be given a good rest in an epidemic-proof hotel. He also questioned why health care workers have to pay 6,000 to 7,000 NTD (equivalent to 1,300 to 1,600 RMB) out of pocket when they feel they need to be screened. So expensive.
Yang mentioned that if new cases of infection are found in Taoyuan Hospital in the next two weeks, don’t panic. He supported Chen Shizhong’s move to “empty the hospital”.
Yang Zhiliang said: “It is right to clear the hospital instead of closing it, this is the right thing to do, because the closure of the hospital is not accessible, and will cause a lot of panic. This time clearing the hospital, so many hospitals jumped out (to receive), this is the same as SARS time to say you do not come, I think this is very great, very great. (Host Wang Shaoqiu: is completely different, is to sweep the snow in front of their own doors).”
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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s Facebook page supports medical staff. (Tsai Ing-wen Facebook)
The company’s main business is to promote the development of the company’s products and services. Executive President Su Tseng-chang said that the epidemic prevention really needs to be tightened up and tasked the Ministry of Health and Welfare and related ministries to work together to do a good job on epidemic prevention measures.
In order to avoid the expansion of the epidemic, ten counties and cities automatically announced the suspension of the Chinese New Year activities, the Taipei International Book Exhibition was changed to online, the Taiwan Lantern Festival, the Tainan Salt Water Beacon Cannon, and the fireworks display at Buddha Mountain were all announced to be cancelled one after another.
The total population of Taiwan is more than 23 million people, the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia accumulated a total of 870 cases diagnosed in a year, of which seven cases died and 769 cases were released from quarantine.
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