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  • China - Beijing shortage of emergency ambulance workers and doctors understaffed in emergency rooms - low pay and infectious disease risk cited

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    Beijing 120 emergency doctors often beaten shortage of low-income
    Time :2014-01-13 Editor: wuxueyuan font Enlarge font Decrease
      Observation Motivation: Recently, a Shanghai citizen sudden illness, family members were told several times to call 120, "no car." And other emergency vehicles late, the patient has been let go unseen. The city's emergency medical center responsible person tells the hidden secrets in an interview: "Not really no ambulance, but not enough manpower."

    Beijing emergency doctors are also in the case of how the shortage of personnel in this predicament, Beijing Youth Daily?? Reporter survey found that Beijing 120 emergency doctors there are also a serious drain on the network, do not move the Master and so on. BYD reporter learned from the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, to alleviate the emergency medical staff shortage situation, the city plans to increase medical aid members of this new career.

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    the city's 120 emergency network every day there are 150 ambulances on duty, you need to have at least 700 doctors in three shifts with the car service, as is a 24-hour emergency service. However, Beijing 120 current reality is that less than 700 emergency physicians, did not meet the minimum standards of staffing emergency network.

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     High-risk, often beaten, a sense of professionalism poor, low-income four reasons caused emergency doctors frequently leave
      BYD Reporter survey found that high-risk, often beaten, a sense of professionalism poor, low income is the major cause of emergency doctors frequently leave.
      One high-risk occupation. Relative to the hospital emergency department physicians, emergency physicians of higher technical difficulty. In patients at home, in the absence of emergency doctors to X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging, CT and other auxiliary inspection tool with the help of a short preliminary judgment on the patient's condition and the treatment given direction, a slight slip is medical malpractice, to bear the medical liability .
      In addition, some patients with infectious diseases are not afraid to pull the emergency vehicles, intentionally concealed the disease, doctors unknowingly chose a low level of protection, for example, only wearing a mask and went transshipment of ordinary TB patients infected disease risk is very high.

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    zhttp://health.chinadaily.com.cn/information/news/4582536504.html
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