Guangdong: H7N9 treatment fee can be reimbursed

On the morning of August 11th, the Guangdong Provincial Government immediately convened a leading group meeting on the prevention and control of H7N9 bird flu in the province, and implemented the important instructions of Hu Chunhua, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Zhu Xiaodan, the governor of the CPC Central Committee, and organized experts to analyze the current Guangdong Province. H7N9 bird flu epidemic prevention and control situation, research and deployment of the current prevention and control work.

In response to the current prevention and control work, the deputy governor of Guangdong Province, Shao Shaochun, requested all relevant departments to fully treat the confirmed patients. At the same time, with regard to the H7N9 epidemic, the prevention and control should be based on the current situation. Starting from the poultry source and market management, decisive measures should be taken to control the source and efforts should be made to block the passage of the birds. Actively play the role of primary medical institutions to ensure early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment of patients.

Lin Shaochun stressed that it is necessary to implement joint prevention and control measures in place. Once a suspected case is discovered, it must strictly implement protective isolation. The industrial and commercial departments must strengthen the inspection of the implementation of the system of “one-day-one-cleaning, one-week-disinfection, and one-month-out-of-one-on-one-day” systems. The occurrence of live birds should be traced back to the source as early as possible. The agricultural sector should increase the detection density and ensure that the sampling inspection mechanism for live poultry before slaughter is put in place. The letter, finance and other departments must make every effort to ensure the supply of drugs.

Zhang Yonghui, director of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, believes that there are potential cases of human infection with H7N9 bird flu in Guangdong and that prevention and control work should be further improved.

Zhong Nanshan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the leader of the expert group of the provincial prevention and control people infected with the H7N9 bird flu virus, said that the patient is still in critical condition. Currently, the Huyan Institute of the First Hospital of Guangyi Medical College is still fully trying to rescue him. Zhong Nanshan said that the next phase should focus on early detection and early diagnosis of the H7N9 epidemic. For patients with confirmed H7N9, it is recommended that they be treated in a locally qualified hospital. If there is no condition, the referral should be made early. When poultry breeding and sales and slaughter personnel are found to have flu symptoms, they must pay great attention to the early use of antiviral drug Tamiflu. The agricultural sector must strengthen the sampling of poultry.

The reporter was informed that after transferring the patient to Guangzhou, he had to pay 30,000 yuan first, but his family was not well-off and could not raise treatment fees. In response, the Provincial Department of Health responded yesterday that, with regard to treatment costs, patients who have purchased medical insurance for urban and rural residents are included in the scope of Medicare reimbursement for treatment costs; those who have not purchased financial insurance for urban and rural residents' medical insurance may have established treatment before. The prevention and control of H7N9 bird flu infection and medical assistance fund will be implemented.