{"id":144540,"date":"2020-07-29T06:16:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=144540"},"modified":"2020-07-29T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T14:10:43","slug":"homs-in-santiago-suspends-in-person-visits-to-doctors-offices-virtual-care-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/29\/homs-in-santiago-suspends-in-person-visits-to-doctors-offices-virtual-care-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Homs in Santiago suspends in-person visits to doctors&#8217; offices, virtual care on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/HOMS-Wikipedia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/HOMS-Wikipedia.jpg 240w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/HOMS-Wikipedia-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest private hospital in Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Hospital (Homs) is asking all would-be patients to refrain from visiting their doctors. Homs&#8217; medical director and deputy director, Mirian de los Santos and Hector S\u00e1nchez, say the temporary suspension of in-person doctor visits is in effect for the next two week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, in Santo Domingo, many doctors are seeing patients via Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other online media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of the epidemic in March 2020, thousands have postponed surgical operations and other non-urgent doctor visits, replacing these when necessary by whatsapp conversations, telephone calls or online sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading labs are also increasingly making home visits to help people to avoid the risk of visiting a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/actualidad\/covid-19-el-homs-suspende-las-consultas-ambulatorias-presenciales-8843490.html\">Acento<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 July 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest private hospital in Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Hospital (Homs) is asking all would-be patients to refrain from visiting their doctors. Homs&#8217; medical director and deputy director, Mirian de los Santos and Hector S\u00e1nchez, say the temporary suspension of in-person doctor visits is in effect for the next two week Likewise, in Santo Domingo, many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/29\/homs-in-santiago-suspends-in-person-visits-to-doctors-offices-virtual-care-on-the-rise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144586,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144540\/revisions\/144586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}