Ambulances follow strict pandemic prevention and control requirements to prevent infection. [Photo/ddcpc website]

Guiyang city – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – is said to have made progress in controlling the recent COVID-19 outbreak and it has removed static management in some areas.

Medical institutions in these areas are taking strict pandemic prevention and control measures to provide safe and orderly treatment of patients.

At the health center for Jinhuayuan community in Guanshanhu district, patients are required to wear masks, present their health codes, travel codes and nucleic acid reports and have their body temperatures measured before entering.

To meet their medical needs, the health center opened a general clinic and medical examination center, receiving about 30 patients per day after the static management was removed.

The center has effective pandemic prevention and control measures at the entrance, pre-examination rooms, consulting rooms and treatment rooms. It also provides a referral service for patients with acute and critical conditions and a door-to-door service for people in special circumstances.

At the First People's Hospital of Qingzhen, patients are also required to follow strict pandemic prevention and control requirements, keep social distance between each other, while only one doctor and one patient are allowed in each consulting room at a time. By 5 pm on Sept 11, the hospital had received more than 1,100 patients on that day.

For inpatients, the hospital has reduced the number of visitors and nucleic acid tests it conducts each day. All the ambulances follow strict pandemic prevention and control requirements when transporting patients or nucleic acid samples. The hospital is also completely disinfected twice a day.

At the Second People's Hospital of Guiyang, guards verify and register all the visitors and vehicles before they can enter. The hospital is also optimizing the diagnosis and treatment process, to ensure safety for critical patients, pregnant women and children.

The hospital has opened 12 departments now and is encouraging patients to make reservations on its official WeChat account before their visit.