China News Service, Shijiazhuang, January 31st (translated by reporter Wang Tian) "70% of patients use traditional Chinese medicine in treatment." On the afternoon of the 31st, Zhang Boli, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was visiting Hebei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Shi said that Chinese medicine has played an active role in the treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia in Shijiazhuang.
In February 2020, Academician Zhang Boli, who led the “National Team of Traditional Chinese Medicine” to the Jiangxia Fangcang Hospital of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was awarded the national honorary title of “Hero of the People” in August of the same year.
In early January of this year, after the outbreak of a local cluster of new crown pneumonia in Hebei, Zhang Boli once again came to Shijiazhuang to fight on the front line of Hebei's "war epidemic."
Zhang Boli said that the outbreak occurred in rural areas, which is the first time in China. Due to the weak medical power in rural areas, the epidemic prevention situation is complicated.
Shijiazhuang City controlled the spread of the epidemic in more than a week through closed-loop control, remote resettlement and isolation, and 20 days later, through both treatment and isolation measures, it successfully controlled the spread of the epidemic.
Zhang Boli said that during the epidemic, many asymptomatic infections appeared in Shijiazhuang. This is a rare situation in Wuhan and other areas where the epidemic has occurred.
Another feature is that the incubation period is very long, and some cases are only diagnosed as positive after more than 20 days of intensive isolation.
In response to this situation, the front-line medical staff summed up a lot of good experience in the treatment process, including the experience of integrated Chinese and Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine treatment.
According to Zhang Boli, due to the concentrated outbreak of the epidemic in rural areas, the infected population of this epidemic showed the characteristics of many elderly people, many people with underlying diseases, and many children. The youngest baby was only 3 months old and five or six years old. There are also many.
In order to take care of these more than 40 children, the hospital sent more than 90 nurses. With the efforts of medical staff, the treatment effect of confirmed patients is very good.
Zhang Boli said that Chinese medicine has played an active role in the fight against the epidemic. The Hebei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine sent several medical teams to the frontline to make important contributions to the fight against the epidemic.
He said that Hebei has also realized the seamless connection of patients from cure and discharge to fixed-point rehabilitation, prepared a rehabilitation plan, and formed a rehabilitation team composed of multiple doctors to improve the rehabilitation effect of patients.
Medical staff in designated hospitals for confirmed patients in Hebei have a high degree of acceptance of Chinese medicine and support Chinese medicine treatment.
Zhang Boli said that patients with new coronary pneumonia treated by traditional Chinese medicine have recovered very well.
It is expected that before the Spring Festival, Shijiazhuang, with the exception of very few confirmed patients with underlying diseases who cannot be discharged from the hospital, most of the infected patients will be cured and discharged from the hospital.
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