全球抗疫英雄谱——奋战在国际抗击新冠肺炎（COVID-19）一线的医护人员
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朱拉隆功大学新冠肺炎应急中心负责人纳林·希兰苏蒂库（Narin Hiransuthikul）：领导研发新型新冠试纸

纳林·希兰苏蒂库（Narin Hiransuthikul）是朱拉隆功大学新冠肺炎应急中心负责人，也是泰国流行病学高级专家。新冠肺炎疫情暴发后，他领导该校研究团队研发了新冠肺炎快速检测试纸，可以在15分钟内得出检测结果。

3月27日，朱拉隆功大学新冠肺炎应急中心发布通知，最新研发的新冠肺炎快速检测试纸将于3月30日投入使用，以缓解患者人数不断增加导致医护人员过度劳累的情况。纳林教授介绍说，朱拉隆功大学新冠肺炎应急中心是当下唯一能够提供新冠肺炎快速检测试纸的机构，但是它还需要再收集一些信息提交给食品和药物监督管理局，以及医学科学部，等待批准。“获得批准后，检测试纸将立刻广泛投入使用。”

纳林教授表示，这种新的检测方法需要对患者进行采血，不同与医务人员收集咽喉拭子和鼻拭子，然后将样本送到实验室进行聚合酶链式反应测试的常规检测方法。研究团队已经进行了100多次血清测试，这种检测方法的准确率高达95％。“5％的患者被错误地检测为阴性，因为他们对新冠病毒类似的病毒产生了抗体。我们相信，新研发的检测套件将改变游戏规则。”

虽然这种快速检测试纸不能代替传统的聚合酶链反应测试，但是能够帮助医院和医护人员减轻负担，因为来医院接受测试的人越来越多。纳林教授解释说：“随着疫情加剧，许多人蜂拥至医院接受聚合酶链式反应测试。人们等待的时间也延长至3、4天。假设朱拉隆功国王纪念医院每天会收集大约1000个样本，这会使医务人员处于危险之中，因为医护人员需要与患者进行密切接触。”

朱拉隆功大学为想要接受测试的患者设置了一套程序。患者必须先在网络上注册、填写表格，然后远程咨询医务人员。“目前，我们只为处于惊恐状态和危险状态的患者提供检测。检测仅需5至15分钟，如果检测结果呈阳性，我们会立即将患者送往医院，我们也会要求检测结果呈阴性的患者在三天内再进行一次检测。”

Dr Narin Hiransuthikul：lead Chulalongkorn to launch 'game changer'

Chulalongkorn University's Covid-19 Emergency Operation Centre will launch a strip test on March 30 to ease the burden on overworked medical personnel as the number of coronavirus infections continues to rise.

Centre chief Narin Hiransuthikul said the centre is the only provider of the strip test for now, because it still has to gather information and submit it for approval by the Department of Medical Sciences and the Food and Drug Administration.

The strip test was developed by a team from the university's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

"Once approved, the strips will be sold over the counter," he said.

Dr Narin is an expert in disease and epidemiology from Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Medicine.

Also the university's vice-president for strategy, planning and budgeting, he said patients will give blood via a prick to the fingertip.

That will be tested rather than the conventional method in which medical personnel collect throat and nasal swabs and send the specimens to laboratories for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

Dr Narin said the team has conducted more than 100 trials of the serology test with 95% accuracy.

"Only 5% falsely tested negative because they produced antibodies in response to viruses similar to Covid-19. We believe there are four to five times as many patients with the virus compared to the 1,045 [confirmed cases as of Thursday]. The kit will be a game changer," he said.

Dr Narin said while the strip test has not been designed to replace the PCR test, it will assist in screening patients at an early stage and ease the burden on medical personnel.

"As the outbreak intensifies, people have been flocking to hospitals for the PCR test, which is extending the waiting period to three to four days. For instance, Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital gathers around 1,000 specimens every day, which is putting medical staff at risk because they are in close contact with coughing patients, he said.

Prof Dr Narin added the university has procedures in place for those wanting to test for Covid-19.

"Patients will have to first register at http://t.cn/A6y6XDk0 fill in forms and then consult medical staff via a telemedicine link. So far, we are only allowing those who have panic attacks and those at risk to come to our centre.

"The strip test takes only five to 15 minutes. If they test positive, they are sent to our hospital immediately, while those who test negative are asked to return for another test in three days," he said.

来源：Bangkok Post, Thailand Tatler

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