[Explanation] The artificial heart-lung machine plays an important role in the treatment of severe patients with new coronary pneumonia. Since the outbreak, with the increase of confirmed and critically ill patients, the demand for artificial heart-lung machines in Wuhan, Hubei has been increasing.
How to mobilize artificial heart-lung machines and other equipment to support Hubei in the country? On March 4, Mao Qun'an, director of the Planning Department of the National Health and Health Commission, said at the press conference of the joint defense and control mechanism of the State Council that at the beginning of receiving demand, he thought it was a difficult task.
[Contemporary] Mao Qun'an, Director, Planning Department, National Health and Medical Commission
At that time, various places also had the task of treating critically ill patients, so the deployment of this equipment in various hospitals was relatively intensive. Later, a request was made in front, saying that it was not enough, and deployment was needed. At that time, we could only ask for help from the provinces. After receiving this task, we also did research, and felt that this was more difficult, because the provinces had treatment tasks at that time, and some of the equipment had been taken over in the early stage.
[Explanation] Although the task is difficult, when the medical equipment collection notice was issued, Mao Qun'an used "one party has difficulty and eight parties to support" to describe the scene at the time.
[Contemporary] Mao Qun'an, Director, Planning Department, National Health and Medical Commission
Our notice was sent the night before, and when I was in the meeting the next day, my colleague sent me a text message saying, "Director, you don't need to call the province again." We plan to tune around 10 units, and then the provinces will report 30 units. At that time, I was particularly touched after receiving this text message. We are in such an emergency situation, and each province has its own rescue mission, and its own equipment is very tight, but as long as it is useful in front, it will be satisfied in such a short time in each place The use of Wuhan front.
[Explanation] At the beginning of the epidemic prevention and control, a large number of patients were in urgent need of transfer and treatment, and negative pressure ambulances became the first important supplies of high concern from all walks of life. In order to ensure the use of "worry-free" in the first-line negative pressure ambulances for epidemic prevention, touching scenes were staged in many places across the country.
[Same Period] Luo Junjie, Director of the First Department of Equipment Industry, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
There are also some moving things in the middle of this process. For example, our company braved the severe weather of heavy snowfall across the country and tried everything to rush the shipment. Relevant provinces and cities, such as Liaoning, Tianjin, Hebei, and Henan, including four provinces and one city in Hubei, continued to relay guards, allowing Brilliance Auto's 40 negative-pressure ambulances to wind and snow across 2,000 kilometers, and quickly arrived from Shenyang Wuhan and so on, these things are endless.
Reporter Xu Pengpeng reports from Beijing
Editor-in-chief: [Lu Yan]