• These guidelines are essential to identify and promptly treat patients
The Campeche health sector attends all suspicious and positive patients of COVID-19, throughout the current protocol, which, once the symptoms are detected, call 9-1-1 or go to the corresponding medical unit of legal entitlement.
For this reason, the State Health System integrated by INDESALUD, IMSS, ISSSTE, SEMAR and SEDENA requests the population to monitor the symptoms and communicate by telephone according to their right of residence, if you consult INDESALUD and ISSSTE call 9-1- 1, and if you consult the IMSS through 800 222 2668.
The Secretary of Health of the Executive Power of the State informs that the protocol of attention is as follows: If the person suspects having COVID-19, presenting some of the following symptoms or signs, fever equal to or greater than 38, headache, excessive tiredness or dry cough, which can be accompanied by general discomfort, diarrhea, loss of smell and taste; In these cases, you should call 9-1-1, where a trained doctor will perform an epidemiological survey.
If no alarm signs and symptoms or any chronic pathology that requires specific control are found, the patient receives recommendations for safeguarding and hygiene at home. If you do not have alarm signs or symptoms during the twenty days after the symptoms start, you can return to your normal life. It should be noted that federal guidelines indicate that for every ten patients with mild symptoms, a sample should be randomly taken.
In the event that the suspicious person presents warning signs or symptoms that are: difficulty breathing, feeling of shortness of breath, pain or pressure in the chest, or inability to move or speak, they should immediately go to their institution.
In the State capital, if you are an IMSS beneficiary, go to the General Hospital of Zone 1 «Dr. Abraham Azar Farah ”, to Clinic # 10 in Santa Lucia or to clinic # 11 better known as Novia del Mar; if you are a holder of the ISSSTE, to the Hospital Clinic «Dr. Patricio Trueba de Regil ”; SEDENA, for SEMAR must go to the Clinica Naval Hospital; PEMEX according to the agreement, etc.) or go to the General Hospital of Specialties of Campeche «Dr. Javier Buenfil Osorio ”or to the Hospital of Specialties“ Dr. Manuel Campos ”. You can also call 9-1-1, where the questionnaire will be conducted, and if required, an ambulance will be sent to transport the patient from his home to the unit where he will be attended.
On the other hand, if from the first contact, either by 9-1-1 or when going to a health unit, serious signs or symptoms are identified, this patient is referred to a hospital for evaluation and hospitalization. The sampling for these hospitalized patients is 100 percent.
The hospitals with the highest resolution capacity have been converted to deal with this pandemic, that is, they have been divided into safe areas; a specific area to serve suspected and confirmed patients with this disease, with timely and exclusive access for users of services and staff; and another part of the hospital, safely separated from the COVID areas, is used to continue normal operations.
The route for respiratory patients is a sealed and separate isolation circuit, to avoid the approach of personnel who will attend to other pathologies and do not have contact with the suspected patient to COVID-19.
Since entering the COVID area, the person with respiratory symptoms is placed with a mouth cover and hand washing or use of alcohol gel is applied; the doctor reviews risk factors and in case of finding symptoms or alarm signs, he is designated for a second evaluation; Patients with uncomplicated respiratory symptoms are sent home with symptomatic treatment, general measures, information, alarm data, and home isolation for 14 days.
Translated by Patricia Rubio
