How can South Koreas crown disease detection efficiency be alone?

Source: Taiwan Economic Daily

Daqiu and Xintiandi Church used to be a popular keyword that everyone smelled the color change, but now it is a distant memory.It directly reflects that the epidemic in the Korean new crown pneumonia has cooled a lot, and this is due to the high -efficiency testing network developed after the MERS epidemic in 2015.

The Wall Street Journal reports that South Korea has slowed a major blow to the pneumonia's epidemic; this epidemic has caused the medical system in many countries to be busy.South Korea can try to inhibit the spread of epidemic and reduce the number of infections, in part of the reason for the long -lasting detection network that continues to rely on efficient, including quickly isolation of infected people.

South Korea has conducted virus tests on nearly 300,000 people, and the number of tests is twice as many as Italy, but the number of diagnosis is only less than one -third of Italy.

Despite the efforts of the United States to improve the testing capabilities, data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other public health laboratories show that the number of people testing in the United States is only one -tenth of South Korea.However, the United States may not quickly expand virus testing because the Trump administration plans to prioritize the implementation of social alienation, not carpet testing.

The detection network developed by South Korea after the MERS epidemic in 2015 was opened when the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out at the end of January.Korean physicians, medical staff, laboratory and political leaders have taken their own responsibilities and followed the provisions established in recent years.

For example, Korean clinic biologist Lee Hermione (transliteration) got out of bed after the alarm of 4.45 am, and settled at his own desk in less than a few minutes and started working, including analyzing the chart of pneumonia detection, and the test of the test was positive.The chart is divided into the negative person.

He often checks the majority of the detection results in the Laboratory of the Saibaris Hospital under the Health System of Yanshi University.Li Hermione was busy at 11 o'clock in the evening, but he usually woke up in the middle of the night to continue to check the test results.The epidemic is quite severe, which is the case for everyone.

Li Hermione and other physicians represent the last checkpoint of the test network system, and this cooperative diagnosis work connects 633 in the country to quickly detect stations with more than 100 laboratories.The operations of these units are consistent, including the use of the same detection equipment in the laboratory, the same training, and the decision based on the same information.

Each laboratory in South Korea uploads the results of pneumonia at 8 am every day to a shared database, allowing domestic and private hospitals to monitor the test results of patients and report to the South Korean Disease Management Department (KCDC).The hospital uploaded the test details to an online register; this roster was produced by experts from the Korean Infectious Disease Association (KSID).

Li Hermione said that this monitoring system allows them to predict where to strengthen their efforts. It is also believed that this is a network that can share any related issues with unclear test results.

South Korea has less resistance to epidemic prevention measures for large -scale testing. Because South Korea implements a single payer's medical health insurance department and formulated comprehensive regulations on infectious diseases, it will help increase the response speed of South Korea to the new coronary pneumonia.When a doctor suggests that testing, or testing personnel found that the public may be exchanged with the cases of confirmed cases, the public can do the test for free.

South Korean health officials said that the government has the ability to detect up to 20,000 daily detection stations through 633 testing stations across the country. The testing stations include the mobile clinic near the location of the rapid testing stations and the new solid cases.

The detection sample will be sealed in a closed container about 4 degrees Celsius, and then transported to 118 laboratories, and a team composed of about 1,200 professional medical personnel is responsible for analyzing these samples.