Organization of work of mobile ambulance team’s activity to screen the population for COVID-19 with the inclusion of medical workers of the anti-tuberculosis organization

Abstract

The article describes the experience of prompt response and organization activity on the inclusion of medical workers of the Moscow Research and Clinical Center for Tuberculosis Control of the Moscow Government Department of Health into the mobile medical teams of the A.S. Puchkov Station of Ambulance and Emergency Care of the Moscow Department of Health in order to conduct an initial examination of persons who arrived from countries with an unfavorable situation with the spread of a new coronavirus infection
caused by SARS-CoV-2, and contact persons with a new coronavirus infection.
The favorable epidemic situation for tuberculosis in the city of Moscow and temporary restrictive measures, experience of working with infectious patients allowed the employees of the antituberculosis organization to mobilize in a short time and join the work with contact persons of the new coronavirus infection, assigned to the II pathogenicity group.
The practical experience, methodological materials and work algorithms obtained in implementation of the measures could be used by other medical organizations in case of necessity to carry out similar activities.