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Criteria for admission
What are the criteria for admission? Basically the criteria for admission are: PUI
who is clinically ill, PUI with uncontrolled medical conditions or laboratory
confirmed case (asymptomatic/symptomatic). Refer to the Diagram 3.
If the admission criteria are fulfilled, we will discuss with the HKL Infectious
Disease (ID) physician on-call. If the ID physician agrees for the ward admission,
then we will alert the MECC (Medical Emergency Coordinating Centre), which is
the emergency department, HKL. The patient will be sent by our clinic's
ambulance and the ambulance will then be decontaminated in the HKL hospital
itself before it is back to the clinic.
Otherwise, if the hospital admission criteria is not fulfilled, we will notify the case
to our PKD (District Health Office). The PPKP or health inspector will visit the
patients at home. They were given home surveillance orders for them to be
quarantined. They will arrange an appointment date for them to do nasal
pharyngeal & oropharyngeal swabs, give home assessment tools and pamphlets
about this infection.
