China ensures medical supplies for frontline medics
- The key supplies for medical personnel on the frontlines to fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic in central China’s Hubei Province are guaranteed, and the supplies of living materials are basically abundant.
Lian Weiliang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, announced at a video press briefing Thursday in Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic. On Feb. 19, a total of 336,000 N95 masks and 133,000 protective suits were collected across the country and supplied to Hubei, said Lian. With the growing number of medics sent to Hubei to aid the fight against the virus, as well as the confirmed and suspected patients admitted to hospital for treatment, there will be a huge demand for medical supplies. There are still some structural problems in the varieties of medical material provisions, according to Lian.
Meanwhile the 35th Chinese medical team in Sudan on Wednesday conducted a training lecture on the prevention and treatment of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in a hospital in the country’s capital Khartoum. With the aim of enhancing the capacity of early identification, diagnosis and clinical treatment of the COVID-19 among Sudanese medical workers, the lecture was attended by more than 50 medical personnel and experts from both sides.
Having introduced the positive results of the Chinese government’s efforts in prevention and control of the novel coronavirus, Li Changhong, a doctor of the Chinese medical team, said his team has fully communicated with the
Sudanese Ministry of Health over the disease and visited the Khartoum Teaching Hospital to check their measures of prevention, control and quarantine. Zheng Xi, an acupuncture doctor of the Chinese medical team, gave a detailed and vivid explanation on the protection for doctors and individuals from the novel coronavirus and the treatment process of fever patients.
For her part, Nagah Mohamed, an expert in infectious disease prevention and control at the Sudanese Ministry of Health, hailed the effective response by the Chinese government to the disease outbreak. “This training is very interesting, and has increased our understanding of the prevention and control measures against the epidemic,” she said.
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