covid-19|马来西亚:私立医院在COVID-19战役中扮演更重要的角色

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covid-19|马来西亚:私立医院在COVID-19战役中扮演更重要的角色
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由于医疗保健体系处于崩溃的边缘,大马政府正在整合公立和私立医院 。
根据惠誉资询的一份报告,在颁布紧急条例以动员私立医疗部门的资源后,马来西亚私立医院将在对抗COVID-19大流行中发挥更大的作用 。
作为紧急工作的一部分,政府将整合公立和私立医院服务,以实现更好的协调 。根据卫生部的指示,公立医院和参与计划的私立医院都将在马来西亚政府的COVID-19综合控制中心下的混合集群中运营,以治疗患有病毒或其他病毒的患者 。
所涉及的医院目前正在对其部分病房进行改造,以容纳COVID-19病例,而位于巴生谷郊区梳邦再也的Sunway医疗中心等则正在扩大其容纳更多病例的能力 。
总共有210家注册的私立医院中的96家同意在该国紧急状态期间提供COVID-19治疗,该状态从1月11日至8月1日生效 。据总理穆希丁·亚辛称,他们将在重症监护病房中增加1344张床位和65张床位用于治疗 。
预计病例数激增将使该国医疗体系的现有能力瘫痪 。亚辛承认,由于政府医院每天无法支持超过2,000例新的阳性病例,因此马来西亚的医疗保健系统正处于断裂点 。
他还指出,有15家医院的非重症监护病房床位利用率超过70% 。
在巴生谷,吉隆坡医院和马来亚大学医学中心的COVID-19患者的ICU病床已达到最大容纳量,而双溪毛糯医院已达到其总容纳量的83% 。
同时,全国医院的1,450多名医务人员已被感染或定向隔离 。
由于公共设施的资源仍然捉襟见肘,等待非紧急服务的时间较长以及对公立医院床位的大量需求,马来西亚开放了其卫生部门,以进一步吸引私人参与 。
政府为建立新的私立医院,翻新现有机构,购买新设备以及申请国际认证提供退税 。从十年前的公共设施和私人设施之间以大约80:20的比例分配到现在,现在已接近70:30 。
报告说:“近年来,由于收入增加,医疗保险的扩大和专业设施的开放,政府鼓励私营部门发展的努力得到了帮助 。”*
Malaysia's private hospitals to play bigger role in COVID-19 battle
The government is integrating public and private hospitals as the healthcare system is at its breaking point.
Private hospitals in Malaysia will play a bigger role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, following the enactment of an emergency ordinance to mobilise resources of the private healthcare sector, according to a report from Fitch Solutions.
As part of the emergency effort, the government will integrate both public and private hospital services for better coordination. Both public hospitals and participating private ones will operate in a hybrid cluster under the Malaysian government’s COVID-19 Integrated Control Centre to treat patients with the virus or otherwise, based on the Ministry of Health's directions.
【covid-19|马来西亚:私立医院在COVID-19战役中扮演更重要的角色】Hospitals involved are currently converting some of its wards to accommodate COVID-19 cases, whilst some like Sunway Medical Centre, located in the Klang Valley suburb of Subang Jaya, are expanding their capacity to take in more cases.
In total, 96 out of 210 registered private hospitals throughout Malaysia have agreed to provide COVID-19 treatment during the country’s state of emergency, which is effective from 11 January to 1 August. They will add an additional 1,344 beds and 65 beds in ICU for treatment, according to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
The surge in the number of cases is expected to paralyse the existing capacity of the country’s healthcare system. Yassin admitted that Malaysia's healthcare system is at its breaking point as government hospitals are unable to support over 2,000 new positive cases per day.

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