Strategy of hospital logistics support to the battle against COVID-19 by a hospital / 中华医院管理杂志

Public hospitals in the face of COVID-19, should prioritize medical services of patients as the topmost task. In order to ensure the smooth progress of diagnosis and treatment, and prevent the occurrence of nosocomial infection, the hospital took an overall response strategy featuring " logistics support mode 3+ 1" . This strategy requires to make facilities ready by transforming isolation wards, overall management and deployment of protection supplies, optimizing logistics service flow, strict sterilization and isolation of medical wastes and environment, optimizing catering service within the hospital to reduce the gathering and flow of personnel. It also enhanced personnel training, to eliminate staff panic and to stabilize the logistics support team. Meanwhile, the logistics department took over the hospital access screening work for tight access control, which maximize the safety and reliability of the logistics support within the hospital, and ensure the smooth progress of the epidemic prevention work.

Strategy of hospital logistic support to the battle against novel coronavirus pneumonia / 中华医院管理杂志

Nowadays hospitals have been at the forefront fighting against novel coronavirus pneumonia, with diagnosing and treating of patients as a top priority. In order to ensure the smooth progress of diagnosis and treatment, and prevent the occurrence of nosocomial infection, logistics support needs to make allowances for the isolation ward in time from the perspectives of logistics, facilities and equipment, and to transform the in-and-out double channels of ward access as required, thus setting up the partition of the three zones. Secondly, logistics support needs to optimize the logistics service workflow, including the medical waste management, the environmental disinfection isolation, and to optimize the catering service within hospitals to reduce the gathering and flow of personnel. Thirdly, logistics support needs to increase personnel training, and to eliminate psychological panic as well as to stabilize the logistics support team by putting logistics management cadres on the front line. Meanwhile, the logistics department needs to take over the hospital access screening work, strictly manage those who enter the hospital, maximize the safety and reliability of the logistics support within the hospital, and ensure the smooth progress of the epidemic prevention work.