" This (Covid19) crisis puts a spotlight on a health-care system that was already uneven, with care in rural areas lagging that of big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. In recent years, China has embarked on an ambitious overhaul of its medical system in a bid to drag down drug costs and waiting time, but the current epidemic brings those persistent inequalities into sharp relief.
Over 23,000 doctors and nurses
have been sent from hospitals around the country to Hubei to shore up the virus response at the epicenter,
leaving some hospitals with fewer medical staff in provinces like Guangdong and Jiangsu "
~Facts
1.Prizma or GMPatch cannot directly help 80000 Covid19 patients
2. 23000 doctors/nurses (military and civilian)have been moved from othercentres/cities to Wuhan and Hebei.3Prior to this forced transfers China hospitals were/are already facingDAILY acute shortages of doctors and nurses.
4.Ongong after-effects of Covid19 in Hebei/Wuhanthat highlight urgent needs for medtechs like Prizma dn GMPatch - remote monitoring of patients - acute or minor illments
This article explains my points better than i can:
~Hospitals in China,Overwhelmed by Coronavirus, Turn Away Patients With Other Pressing Needs
https://time.com/5788495/china-hospital-shortage/By Bloomberg
February20, 2020
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While most marked in devastated Hubei, where the novel coronavirus first took hold, a shortage of non-virus medical care is also emerging across China — even in its most prosperous cities.
This crisis puts a spotlight on a health-care system that was already uneven, with care in rural areas lagging that of big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. In recent years, China has embarked on an ambitious overhaul of its medical system in a bid to drag down drug costs and waiting time, but the current epidemic brings those persistent inequalities into sharp relief.
Over 23,000 doctors and nurses have been sent from hospitals around the country to Hubei to shore up the virus response at the epicenter, leaving some hospitals with fewer medical staff in provinces like Guangdong and Jiangsu.
And a fear of exposing medical staff to the highly infectious pathogen is causing some hospitals to turn away all new patients in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai, even if those patients need urgent care for cancer or renal failure.
~Liu is one of a growing number of Chinese patients with urgent medical conditions unrelated to the coronavirus epidemic who have become collateral damage as China struggles to gain control of an outbreak that’s now claimed over 2,000 lives.
In Hubei, the province of 60 million that Wuhan is the capital of, medical facilities are still facing severe shortages in dealing with the surge in virus patients. Almost all medical personnel, equipment and resources have been channeled into fighting the outbreak, leaving other patients in limbo.
~Pawn Sacrificed
Posts from desperate patients begging for help and accounts of citizens taking their own lives because they could not get medical care are trending on social media in China, where anger is already simmering over the government’s slow initial response to the outbreak.
On Sunday, Wuhan designated six hospitals for patients in critical condition unrelated to the virus, and another 15 hospitals that can take emergency non-virus cases. In the city of 11 million people, 46 hospitals with nearly 19,000 beds are devoted to virus care, with converted stadiums, office buildings and schools also providing thousands more beds for infected patients.
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