Private companies support battle in Wuhan

THE Shanghai medical team helping Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, the heart of the current epidemic, received four computers and two projectors from Jiading Federation of Industry and Commerce on February 5.

“Song, do you have any more secondhand computers or projectors at hand,” Zhang Mingming, head of supplies for the team, asked Song Hua, vice director of CJ Rokin Logistics Supply Chain in Jiading.

Computers and projectors are particularly precious in the epidemic area where resources remain patchy. Assisting epidemic areas is a race against time.

After the coronavirus outbreak, Song came to Wuhan with a logistics team from the company, responsible for the resources transport and distribution.

“Tell me if you are out of resources,” he told the medical teams. Because of his zeal, Song is the first to be contacted by medical teams when they lack supplies.

Song was relieved after talking with Ji Hong, general secretary of Jiading Federation of Industry and Commerce, hearing that several companies in Jiading were going to lend a helping hand.

Initiated by the federation, Shanghai Kaiquan and Nanya New Material answered the call, and collected needed supplies within an hour. All the equipment was sent to Jinyintan Hospital on February 5.

Facing the virus, the help from Jiading private companies is more than that.

Shanghai Kaiquan keeps an eye on the epidemic. The company has donated equipment for sewage treatment and provided water pumps and relevant equipment to temporary epidemic prevention hospitals nationwide for free. Kaiquan has donated two million yuan (US$285,237) to the Wuhan Charity Federation for those who are in need.

A medical team of six medical workers from Jiading-based Shanghai Stem

Cell Group headed to Wuhan Children’s Hospital with umbilical cord blood for a patient with severe acute blood disease on February 6.

JD Logistics has delivered more than 236 million medical supplies including medical masks and gloves, goggles and disinfectant to Wuhan and Huanggang cities in Hubei Province as of February 7. P.G., Logistics Shanghai Logistics Center undertook the delivery of disinfecting equipment to Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan which is being used for severe and critically ill patients.

As the only logistics company delivering relief materials in the city, CJ Rokin Logistics Supply Chain has sent more than 50 tons of drugs, 5 million masks, 150 tons of alcohol and 500,000 protective suits and gloves. They also launched an emergency dispatch team to the frontline.

Qutoutiao, an app delivering articles and short videos to users, joined with

Weiyi Group to offer free online clinic appointments and consultations through its app, launching a novel coronavirus pneumonia section, providing free online medical consulting services. More than 90,000 people have used it.

Private companies in the district have donated more than 13 million yuan, more than 600,000 masks, 8,000 gloves, 5,500 goggles, 100,000 protective suits and 1,100 operating hats by February 7.

As the demand of masks, infrared thermometers and protective suits increases, the sensor team of Shanghai Industrial μTechnology Research Institute returned to work during the Spring Festival.

The production line makes sensors for companies producing infrared thermometers. It can produce more than 130,000 sensor chips a day and, so far, the institute has received more than 5 million orders.

(Translated by Yu Hong)