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发信人: icecap (暖一暖*MOH), 信区: English
标 题: Official explains rise of SARS cases in Beijing
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年04月21日20:29:16 星期一), 站内信件
Executive Vice-Minister of Health Gao Qiang said here Sunday the difficulti
es in diagnosing SARS, a disease never known to mankind so far, partly expla
ined why the latest figure of SARS cases in Beijing was far bigger than that
released several days ago.
Gao said at a press conference that SARS was a sudden and severe disaster. "
It takes time from receiving the patients to confirming SARS cases," he said
, adding that after a period of diagnosis and treatment, some of the suspect
ed cases with obvious symptoms were confirmed to be SARS patients, thus incr
easing the total number of SARS cases.
A lack of effective communication and information exchanges among hospitals
in Beijing was another major reason, the official said.
The patients were located in more than 70 Beijing hospitals belonging to dif
ferent departments, therefore, it was difficult for the city health authorit
y to have accurate and comprehensive statistics on SARS cases in the city.
According to Gao, there are 175 hospitals of second grade or higher in Beiji
ng. Among them, 131 are at municipal, district and county levels, 14 belongi
ng to the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, 16 run by the milita
ry and armed forces and 14 belonging to various industries. Gao said the fac
t that the Ministry of Health had not been well prepared for public health e
mergencies and the epidemic control system was comparatively weak also contr
ibuted to the sharp rise of SARS cases in Beijing.
When the SARS disease emerged, the ministry failed to formulate timely a uni
fied system for collecting and reporting information about the epidemic situ
ation across the country.
The ministry did not have a clear requirement to local health authorities on
information collecting and reporting, nor gave them effective directions, t
he official said.
He said that Beijing Municipality had made great efforts and medical workers
in the city had done their best to treat patients. However, as related depa
rtments did not have an effective mechanism in providing information, statis
tics and monitoring reports and carrying out follow-up investigations, they
failed to have correct figures of SARS cases and report them to higher autho
rities.
"We must draw lessons in an earnest way from the failures and make improveme
nts," Gao said.
He said the monitoring team dispatched by the State Council to Beijing on Ap
ril 15 had worked together with the Beijing municipal government and related
departments of the central government. They went to hospitals in Beijing on
e after another to check the number of SARS cases and register patients.
A a week's hard work had resulted in the verified number of SARS patients, i
ncluding those from other provinces, who were being treated in hospitals in
Beijing, he said.
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