The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council is against the change in the standard of organizational health care for patients suspected of being infected or infected with SARS-CoV-2, introduced by the regulation of the Minister of Health of January 21, 2022.
NIL: The new duties for GPs are time taken away from non-covid patients
Published Jan. 31, 2022 10:11
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The regulation introduces the obligation to carry out a physical examination by a primary care physician of every patient over 60 years of age who has been referred for home isolation, with the proviso that this examination is to be carried out no later than 48 hours of this isolation.
As the NRL points out, current medical knowledge does not provide sufficient grounds to impose such an obligation. Indications for a physical medical examination should, also during an epidemic, result from the current medical knowledge and the patient's condition, and not from legal regulations.
The Presidium emphasizes that the implementation of the introduced obligation will significantly disturb the process of admitting non-covid patients. Creating conditions for the admission of each patient over 60 years of age referred to isolation at home will require a significant reorganization of admissions for primary care patients, and the allocation of time windows for covid patients.
Among covid patients over 60 years of age required to undergo a physical examination, there will be patients who do not require such examination. The time spent admitting and examining these patients for purely bureaucratic and not health reasons is the time taken away from other patients whose health condition will require an examination.
Instead of improving care for covid patients, the changes introduced will actually worsen the availability of primary care for both covid patients and other patients - assesses the PNRL.
Source: NIL
