A fire at a medical and nursing center in Hunan killed five people; the epidemic in Xi'an is expected to be under control in a week.

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The National Health Commission responded to the abortion of pregnant women in Xi'an

On January 8, at the press conference of the State Council's joint prevention and control, Guo Yanhong, supervisor of the Medical Administration Bureau of the National Health Commission, said that in recent days, incidents such as abortion of pregnant women in Xi'an have aroused great concern in society. After the incident, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan held a special meeting to emphasize that we should uphold the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life, and we must not use any excuse to prevaricate or refuse to accept patients.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council has repeatedly issued five orders, requiring that while doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, normal medical services must be guaranteed, for the masses with medical needs, especially acute and critically ill patients should be timely and effectively treated, and must not be prevaricated and refused to be treated, for hemodialysis patients, tumor radiotherapy and chemotherapy patients, pregnant women, newborns and other special groups that need regular treatment and follow-up, medical institutions should be designated to effectively guarantee continuous medical services, and for elderly and chronic disease patients, the amount of prescriptions should be appropriately extended. Grass-roots health institutions should do a good job of contracting services, and when necessary, do a good job of door-to-door delivery of medicines, etc., and must not use epidemic prevention and control as a reason to suspend, refuse diagnosis or delay treatment.

At the same time, medical institutions are required to set up a buffer area, and patients who have not been excluded from the new crown virus infection should be treated on the basis of protection first, and transferred to the general ward after excluding the new crown pneumonia. (CCTV News)

2 people in Tianjin Jinnan District were positive for nucleic acid

In the early morning of January 8, the Tianjin Municipal Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters received two reports from Jinnan Hospital, and two personnel had initially screened positive for the nucleic acid test of the new crown virus. At 6:32 a.m., the Tianjin Municipal Department of Disease Control reviewed both samples positive. The two are willing due diligence personnel and fever clinic active medical personnel. Based on the results of their nucleic acid tests, clinical manifestations, blood tests and CT tests, the municipal expert group comprehensively determined that both were new local confirmed cases (both mild). (CCTV News)

Lanzhou University COVID-19 Prediction System:

The outbreak in Xi'an is expected to be under control around January 15

Lanzhou University's COVID-19 Global Forecasting System recently released its prediction and analysis of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Xi'an on December 9. The results show that under the timely and effective control measures taken by the current government, the current round of epidemic in Xi'an is expected to be under control around January 15, 2022. (Beijing Daily)

A fire at a medical care center in Hengyang, Hunan

Five people were killed

At 00:27 on January 8, the fire department received a fire alarm: a fire broke out at the Laiyan Medical And Nursing Center in Shigu District, Hengyang City. The fire department and local relevant personnel immediately rushed to the scene and dispatched forces to quickly extinguish the fire, emergency rescue and rescue the injured. By 1:30 a.m., the fire had been extinguished. At the time of the incident, the medical care center had a total of 19 people, 5 people were safely transferred, and 14 people were sent to the hospital. Five of them died after ineffective treatment, and the other injured are undergoing full medical treatment. The cause of the accident is under investigation. (Stone Drum Fusion Media)

A 4-year-old girl with autism was beaten by four teachers

Tong Tong (pseudonym), a 4-year-old daughter with autism, was beaten and intimidated while attending the Xingxing Autism Training Center in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. Parents found through the monitoring that the 4 teachers had beaten and bitten the children. Police officers at the police station who accepted the case told parents that a suspect who beat the child was sentenced to 12 days of administrative detention. The Qingyuan Disabled Persons' Federation, which is in charge of the Autism Training Center, explained in the reply letter that it had put forward rectification opinions and completed rectification. (Cover News, Guangming Network)

Fingerprints may be used for early screening for congenital diseases

The team of researcher Wang Sijia of the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the team of Professor Denis Headon of the University of Edinburgh and the team of Academician JinLi of Fudan University carried out in-depth research with more than ten scientific research institutions inside and outside the United Nations, accurately quantified the fingerprint patterns of various ethnic groups, and after analyzing the relationship between millions of genetic loci and fingerprint patterns, concluded that the genes related to human limb development played a key role in the formation of fingerprint pattern phenotypes. The study is expected to provide new ideas for the study of early identification and screening of specific diseases through skin pattern phenotype. The research results were published in the first issue of Cell in 2022. (Morning News)

South Korea's presidential candidate advocates

Include the treatment of hair loss in medical insurance

After South Korean presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung proposed to expand the coverage of hair loss covered by medical insurance in his campaign proposal, "hair loss" became a hot topic. Currently, the Korean National Health Insurance can only reimburse the cost of treatment for hair loss caused by specific diseases, and hair loss caused by age and genetics is not included. Lee Jae-myung said that nearly 10 million South Koreans suffer from hair loss, and many can only buy drugs or use alternative drugs from abroad because of the high cost of treatment, and he advocates including the treatment of hair loss in the national health insurance. (Xinhua International)

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