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China - Overcrowding in major hospitals due to influenza in Nanjing, Jiangsu province

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Overcrowding in major hospitals, nurses working trot into the influenza season in Nanjing
Source: People's Daily Online - Jiangnan Times
At 00:33 on January 12, 2011


These days, emergency room overcrowding in major hospitals in Nanjing. Transfusion Department, nurses are busy shuttling back and forth "with no time on the toilet", long line of patients waiting for infusion could do nothing but shake their heads again and again: "how do so many people cold!" Many people are even worried that , will be a few years ago had been the influenza epidemic H1N1 influenza is making a comeback?

Hospital Status: each infusion room are overcrowded

Nanjing Children's Hospital emergency room, this week described as "bursting with every day." Statistics from the hospital, this weekend, Nanjing Children's Hospital out-patient number of 2700 reached only medicine, of which about a cold Bacheng fever. Emergency room nurses infusion claims for this busy, "with no time on the toilet," but long line waiting for the infusion of the children is still a crying, anxious parents is constantly whining, medical staff can only again over and over to explain, to placate ... ...

A similar situation occurred recently as major hospitals in Nanjing. This weekend, Drum Tower Hospital, emergency room admissions of more than 1,000 patients, all nurses in the emergency room Lian Zhouzhuan is still busy, this hospital had drawn nurses from other departments, "reinforcements."

9 o'clock yesterday morning, reporters in Nanjing First Hospital Outpatient Respiratory see patients waiting for treatment where the patient is not packed full to the brim, cough, urging sound, one after another. A nurse on duty told reporters, only an hour yesterday morning, respiratory hung up No. 110, "Bacheng above are a fever." And just last weekend, the hospital's respiratory department, a morning to hang 150 fever patients. Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital situation is basically the same, the emergency room nurses are linked to water trot.

Not only during the day, the most recent major hospitals in Nanjing, the amount of night-time emergency, but also significantly increased compared with some time ago. 9 night, Nanjing Children's Hospital emergency medical admissions were more than 470 children, including four children to the hospital seizures have occurred. That night, the hospital emergency room treated a total of 16 children, the next morning and 13 children received ... ... the Drum Tower Hospital emergency room nurse for this emotion, said, "Now the big winter, the number of patients was more than the most likely to get sick of the Spring and Autumn days, really could not understand! "

Explore the reasons: Why are there so many people cold

The past, people always feel cold spring is the easiest. May have entered the winter holds many lessons, why suddenly so many flu patients? Department of Respiratory Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, Nanjing Master Ren Linyong believe that the recent emergence of so many cold Nanjing cases, the recent weather conditions and Nanjing have a direct relationship.

According to reports, the recent emergence of Nanjing cold weather for several days, sudden cold weather so difficult to adapt once the citizens of Nanjing, the elderly, children, usually relatively weak physical groups, it is difficult to Kangde Zhu, formerly of potential physical where the disease is easy to induce them, resulting in a cold, fever and other symptoms.

Acute Communicable Disease Control in Nanjing CDC chief of Hong Lei told reporters that although the major hospitals in Nanjing significant increase in flu cases, but they are testing for months, are not found in Nanjing, H1N1 influenza A virus-positive cases. This shows that large numbers of flu patients holds many lessons, but the common cold, is not H1N1, the people who do not have to tense.

It is understood that the present total of five Nanjing national influenza surveillance sentinel influenza virus H1N1, including the Children's Hospital, First Hospital, the Provincial People's Hospital. A flow from the 2009 outbreak, CDC, Nanjing weekly from 5 to sentinel hospitals to collect specimens, each 10 or so, get laboratory monitoring. So far, this work did not stop. Since June of last year, the Division of monitoring sentinel hospitals from more than 1,400 specimens obtained so far have not found positive for influenza A H1N1 virus cases. Hongke Zhang believes that the current seasonal influenza A H3N2 subtype of Nanjing still pop-oriented.

Hongke Zhang said, the current large numbers of flu cases, mainly caused because of the weather factors. He said: "Each year winter flu patients will increase. This is just the natural order of development of the disease."

In addition to continuous low temperatures near Nanjing, the reasons, experts also believe that the Nanjing nearly dry during the fog and haze, "also contributed to the high incidence of common cold is one important reason." According to reports, this year in nearly a dozens of Nanjing The most severe autumn drought years, after the winter there is only two brief rain and snow, under the exceptionally dry air Nanjing, there were frequent haze days, allowing bacteria, viruses are very active form of the respiratory tract of people very large stimuli, and influenza virus in a dry environment, the reproduction rate will be significantly accelerated, which to some extent, to cause the flu and other respiratory diseases.

Need attention: more white-collar family illness

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, Nanjing main Renlin Yong told reporters that cold this year, Nanjing has two characteristics: First, patients are mostly white-collar workers, students, office workers, etc., and second, a longer duration of the cold, mostly manifested as recurrent fever, cough, nasal congestion runny nose.

Superficial Director further explained that the white-collar workers and students, a cold person, because this part of the crowd is always living in a closed environment, the air circulation less easily spread germs, a person prone to illness, surrounded by people " dipping "situation.

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