(Fighting new crown pneumonia) Hubei realizes the reversal of medical protective materials from scarcity to surplus
China News Service, Wuhan, March 20th (Reporter Guo Xiaoying) Hubei will increase the cultivation of the industrial chain, supplementing industry supporting products such as masks, protective clothing, goggles and structural shortcomings to create a national demonstration area for the production of medical protective materials And national emergency reserve base.
At the press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic held on the 20th in Hubei Province, Wu Fangjun, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, made the above statement. Wu Fangjun said that in this epidemic, the shortcomings of the medical protection industry in Hubei Province were relatively obvious. One was that the output was small, the other was the lack of a brand, and the third was that it was not matched.
In response to these problems, Hubei quickly organized enterprises to resume production, support expansion and transformation of enterprises, and formulated support policies to improve the ability to maintain and supply medical protective substances and the level of the industrial chain. After more than two months of efforts, the daily output of medical protective clothing in Hubei Province is 130,000 sets, the daily output of N95 masks is more than 320,000, and the daily output of medical surgical masks is 3.5 million. Coupled with central allocations, support from other provinces, social donations, and national support, Hubei has achieved a reversal of the shortage of medical protective materials.
Wu Fangjun said that in the next step, Hubei will help accelerate the development of the medical protection industry. Specific measures include supporting enterprises to implement technological transformation, granting the remaining supporting subsidies to centrally subsidized equipment purchase fees for enterprises included in state support, and provincial subsidies to fully subsidize equipment purchase expenses for enterprises included in provincial support, and to promote the medical protective asset industry Transformation and upgrading; guide enterprises to increase varieties, improve quality, create brands, support the upgrading of the medical protection industry, at the same time increase the cultivation of the industrial chain, and improve the modernization level of the medical protective assets industry in Hubei Province. (Finish)