News … Excluding some cases from pre-booking is an urgent requirement

Abdul Razzaq Al Mohsen –

Primary health care centers are considered the first line of defense and safety valve for the Ministry of Health, thanks to its pivotal role in providing curative, preventive and rehabilitative services to their auditors based on their illness and relieving pressure on public hospitals, especially the emergency departments in them.

The role of these centers, spread across all regions of the country, grew during the Corona pandemic, which imposed the assignment of 10 centers to care for people with “Covid-19”, the distribution of electronic bracelets and the supply of instruction relating to the emerging virus, as well as the provision of health care to patients with other diseases in the remaining centers and through general and specialist clinics.

However, recent times have witnessed decisions that require reconsidering their negative consequences for auditors and patients in general. The application of the pre-booking system in primary care centers before going to them requires the study of some of the consequences that may involve the absence of a reserve with references, and then apologize for its reception and entry into General practice clinic, for example, and then the patient arrived late to the emergency room at any hospital close to his home address.

Dangerous symptoms

According to doctors, the symptoms of a heart attack, for example, are pain in the center or left of the chest, which can last several minutes, or pain in the upper body, or indigestion, shortness of breath and sweating, and you may suffer from these. symptoms any reference to the health center And then we apologize for not having received it because there is no prior booking, and as a result there may be health risks for the patient, who may not be aware of his injury with this type of stroke or other serious illnesses, and therefore the time factor is important to him.

While some health centers exclude seniors, people with special needs, and those with unstable health from the pre-booking system for entry, there are centers that require an appointment in advance and there are reviewers who face technical issues when trying to fix an appointment in advance at the dispensary in the area where they live, or even do not have Appointments are available sometimes, as now happens with citizens who want to take doses of the vaccine against seasonal flu or pneumonia (Nemococcal).

Specialists have warned that patients who leave the health center without treatment under the pretext of unavailability of prior booking could have disastrous consequences. There are cases that require cardiopulmonary resuscitation to be performed and a delay that reduces the chances of getting the heart back to work by 10%, which means that within 10 minutes without starting the ambulance, the victim’s chance of survival becomes a lot small, if not non-existent, then pulmonary resuscitation increases. The heart and brain contain blood and oxygen and increase the victim’s chances of recovery.