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China: Shanghai hospitals to ask new patients about exposure to poultry

Catbird

Senior Moderator
Machine translation from original article:

"Shanghai started three plans: fever patients to ask the history of contact with poultry

2013 04 03

Evening News reporter Xu Qin Xiao Bo Yu Tao Ran reports

City start to the prevention and control of influenza epidemic three contingency plans, various medical institutions at all levels to strengthen management of fever clinics, strictly implement the pre-screening triage system. 43 Influenza Surveillance points and 130 medical institutions set up fever clinics "to" daily report "unexplained pneumonia from the weekly report.

Last night and this morning, this reporter separately interviewed fever clinics and emergency rooms of some hospitals in the city, found that recent city fever outpatients did not increase, but all hospitals are deployed to deal with the H7N9 avian influenza program encountered fever symptoms the patient, to the desk nurse will ask first out "whether poultry contact history", the medical staff also enhanced personal protection.

Children's Hospital: wearing masks first into the fever clinics

Encountered fever patients in the Shanghai Children's Hospital outpatient and emergency pre-screening station, to the desk nurse will ask first out "whether poultry contact history"; come to seek treatment for fever patients, the medical staff of a small patients and parents do its protective measures, not only to wear a mask, do "clinic" separate clinic visits into the sub process...".
 
Re: China: Shanghai hospitals to ask new patients about exposure to poultry

Good find, Catbird. :) I'm glad they are checking.
 
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