According to an April 26 report by Liberty Times, since the number of reported SARS cases in Taiwan has reached 250, Minister of Health Twu Shiing-jer announced at the Executive Yuan last night that Taiwan's epidemic prevention measures have officially entered the second-level management stage. The government has already stepped up public information efforts and is actively reallocating hospital beds to cope with the growing demand for isolation beds.
Chen Chai-jin, director of the Department of Health's Center for Disease Control, said last night that Taiwan has entered the second-level management stage starting today, meaning a certain hospital in the north and its medical staff will be requisitioned to care exclusively for SARS patients, though he declined to reveal details. Deputy Minister of Health Lee Lung-teng pointed out that if the number of hospitalized patients exceeds 200, one hospital each in central, southern, and eastern Taiwan will also be designated to admit only SARS patients for isolation treatment.
After the collective SARS infection outbreak at Heping Hospital, the speed of the epidemic's spread in Taiwan has clearly increased. As of yesterday, the number of probable cases nationwide had reached 49, and the distribution has gradually spread from being concentrated mainly in northern Taiwan to central and southern Taiwan. As a result, besides Heping Hospital, Kaohsiung National Health Insurance Outpatient Center and Chiayi Hospital under the Department of Health have successively reported hospital closures or medical personnel being placed under isolation; in addition, 38 schools are suspected to have been affected, leading to measures such as suspension of classes for entire schools or some classes and home isolation for students.
Premier Yu Shyi-kun also clearly declared last night that from now on, no medical institution may refuse to admit any SARS patient. If necessary, the Executive Yuan will coordinate military support for the medical facility needs of hospitals at all levels. After coordinating with the Ministry of National Defense, the Department of Health also announced that starting immediately, 1,000 nursing personnel and 300 doctors from military hospitals would be deployed into the follow-up epidemic diagnosis, treatment, and care work.
Last night Premier Yu specially convened the heads of the relevant ministries and commissions to hear the situation regarding the central government's assistance in handling the isolation measures at Taipei Municipal Heping Hospital. Premier Yu instructed the relevant ministries and commissions to fully assist Taipei City in carrying out epidemic prevention work, to arrange as soon as possible for non-SARS patients to be transferred and settled in other hospitals, and called on the public who had entered or left Heping Hospital after April 15 to place themselves under home isolation and report as soon as possible to the Center for Disease Control (nationwide epidemic reporting hotline 0800024582). Premier Yu also ordered the relevant ministries and commissions to fully assist in tracing the list of people who had entered or left Heping Hospital after April 15.
According to the SARS epidemic strategy plan drawn up by the Department of Health, epidemic prevention measures are divided into three levels of management mobilization. Before yesterday, the domestic epidemic situation was still at the first level, but Twu Shiing-jer confirmed last night that because the number of reported cases nationwide had exceeded 200, it had officially entered the second level. If the number of reported cases exceeds 500 in the future, it will enter the third level of management, the highest mobilization state, including full control over people and vehicles entering and leaving communities where cases are showing an increasing trend, full community disinfection and protective measures, full quarantine and disinfection of vehicles that must enter or leave, a complete suspension of classes for two weeks, and closure of nonessential public places.
As for the second-level state, it includes temporarily suspending community activities in communities where cases are showing an increasing trend, setting up temporary simple quarantine stations, and controlling the movement of people in and out. At the same time, schools within the community will suspend classes for 10 to 14 days; if there are two clustered cases among employees at the same workplace, work will be suspended for 10 to 14 days. If necessary, an emergency order may also be issued to prohibit the mini three links.
Although the second-level state has been entered, the Executive Yuan emphasized yesterday that there is still no need at present to declare an emergency order. Twu Shiing-jer said that for now only public information efforts are being strengthened, while the nationwide reallocation of hospital beds will be carried out more actively. The other second-level measures have not yet been adopted.
Chen Chai-jin, director of the Department of Health's Center for Disease Control, said last night that Taiwan has entered the second-level management stage starting today, meaning a certain hospital in the north and its medical staff will be requisitioned to care exclusively for SARS patients, though he declined to reveal details. Deputy Minister of Health Lee Lung-teng pointed out that if the number of hospitalized patients exceeds 200, one hospital each in central, southern, and eastern Taiwan will also be designated to admit only SARS patients for isolation treatment.
After the collective SARS infection outbreak at Heping Hospital, the speed of the epidemic's spread in Taiwan has clearly increased. As of yesterday, the number of probable cases nationwide had reached 49, and the distribution has gradually spread from being concentrated mainly in northern Taiwan to central and southern Taiwan. As a result, besides Heping Hospital, Kaohsiung National Health Insurance Outpatient Center and Chiayi Hospital under the Department of Health have successively reported hospital closures or medical personnel being placed under isolation; in addition, 38 schools are suspected to have been affected, leading to measures such as suspension of classes for entire schools or some classes and home isolation for students.
Premier Yu Shyi-kun also clearly declared last night that from now on, no medical institution may refuse to admit any SARS patient. If necessary, the Executive Yuan will coordinate military support for the medical facility needs of hospitals at all levels. After coordinating with the Ministry of National Defense, the Department of Health also announced that starting immediately, 1,000 nursing personnel and 300 doctors from military hospitals would be deployed into the follow-up epidemic diagnosis, treatment, and care work.
Last night Premier Yu specially convened the heads of the relevant ministries and commissions to hear the situation regarding the central government's assistance in handling the isolation measures at Taipei Municipal Heping Hospital. Premier Yu instructed the relevant ministries and commissions to fully assist Taipei City in carrying out epidemic prevention work, to arrange as soon as possible for non-SARS patients to be transferred and settled in other hospitals, and called on the public who had entered or left Heping Hospital after April 15 to place themselves under home isolation and report as soon as possible to the Center for Disease Control (nationwide epidemic reporting hotline 0800024582). Premier Yu also ordered the relevant ministries and commissions to fully assist in tracing the list of people who had entered or left Heping Hospital after April 15.
According to the SARS epidemic strategy plan drawn up by the Department of Health, epidemic prevention measures are divided into three levels of management mobilization. Before yesterday, the domestic epidemic situation was still at the first level, but Twu Shiing-jer confirmed last night that because the number of reported cases nationwide had exceeded 200, it had officially entered the second level. If the number of reported cases exceeds 500 in the future, it will enter the third level of management, the highest mobilization state, including full control over people and vehicles entering and leaving communities where cases are showing an increasing trend, full community disinfection and protective measures, full quarantine and disinfection of vehicles that must enter or leave, a complete suspension of classes for two weeks, and closure of nonessential public places.
As for the second-level state, it includes temporarily suspending community activities in communities where cases are showing an increasing trend, setting up temporary simple quarantine stations, and controlling the movement of people in and out. At the same time, schools within the community will suspend classes for 10 to 14 days; if there are two clustered cases among employees at the same workplace, work will be suspended for 10 to 14 days. If necessary, an emergency order may also be issued to prohibit the mini three links.
Although the second-level state has been entered, the Executive Yuan emphasized yesterday that there is still no need at present to declare an emergency order. Twu Shiing-jer said that for now only public information efforts are being strengthened, while the nationwide reallocation of hospital beds will be carried out more actively. The other second-level measures have not yet been adopted.
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