Why should we continue to build shelter hospitals?

Shelter hospitals are constantly being built in many places in China, firstly to effectively control the spread of COVID-19, and secondly to effectively improve the work efficiency of medical staff, rationally allocate medical resources and avoid waste.

The initial purpose of establishing shelter hospitals in many places is to control the rapid spread of COVID-19 and achieve this goal under our current epidemic prevention measures? Is the social aspect clear? The so-called "social clearing" means reducing the number of control areas and closed control areas, and minimizing the occurrence of large-scale communication. At present, the most popular strain in China is Omicron strain, and the incubation period of this mutant strain is obviously longer. Due to the enhanced adaptability to human body in mutation, the symptoms after infection are not obvious, and the increase of vaccination rate in China, the number of mild patients and asymptomatic patients increased sharply during the China epidemic. Because these patients can not be screened out in time and become the source of further spread of the epidemic, it is necessary to isolate asymptomatic and mild patients, so isolating these patients in the shelter hospital is the most effective way to cut off the transmission chain.

The establishment of shelter hospital is also for the rational distribution of medical resources. If asymptomatic and mild patients are connected to designated hospitals for treatment according to the previous isolation measures, it will consume a lot of medical resources and bring a serious burden to the medical system. The space of shelter hospital is open, ordinary patients can take care of themselves or help each other, and the medical resources consumed are few, so more resources can be saved and put into the first-line screening work.

The purpose of building shelter hospital is to restore the normal life of residents as soon as possible. If designated hospitals and hotels are used for isolation, it will undoubtedly increase the economic burden of residents and affect the recovery of industrial economy. In the past, gyms were borrowed from isolated places, which also caused risks such as cross-infection. Therefore, it is very necessary to look at the construction of shelter hospitals from a long-term perspective and play an important role in restoring economic development and restoring the normal life of residents.