(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Keeping the "Shanghai" Log: Enthusiastic citizens spontaneously help the elderly around them

　　China News Agency, Shanghai, April 16th: Keep the "Shanghai" log: enthusiastic citizens spontaneously help the elderly around them

　　China News Agency reporter Xu Jing

　　"There are only three potatoes and a few wotou left in the refrigerator, so I have to save some food." "I will run out of food soon, and I can only eat millet porridge and milk melon at noon..." After 8 days of lockdown, he lived alone in a certain district of Puxi. Aunt Hong encountered difficulties.

The 76-year-old found out about the Shinkansen emergency assistance channel by chance from a relative and tried to send a message for help.

　　The emergency aid channel that Aunt Hong mentioned was a special channel opened by Yu Gang, CEO of Nishimoto Shinkansen Company, seeing the dilemma of the elderly living alone.

This channel will focus on the front-line anti-epidemic personnel and the families with the elderly and the sick who are in short supply of vegetables. Every day, a limited supply of vegetable gift packs is provided to the elderly in the city, and they are given priority to provide them with the necessary vegetable guarantee.

　　During the special period of epidemic control, like Aunt Hong, many elderly people in Shanghai encountered difficulties in living security and medical needs.

For the special group of the elderly living alone, Shanghai officials are implementing targeted measures to further strengthen the bottom line of people's livelihood under epidemic prevention and control.

　　Jiang Rui, director of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, said that for the elderly living alone, especially the elderly living alone, or the elderly whose family members have been isolated and treated and temporarily unattended, Shanghai has carried out a thorough investigation, grasped the actual needs, and organized forces to provide assistance.

For example, in response to the problem of feeding the elderly living alone during the epidemic, many streets and towns organized cadres of neighborhood committees and community volunteers to relay food delivery services from the community canteen to the community, and then to the home as much as possible.

　　The whole city is statically managed, and the people's action has not stopped.

Enthusiastic citizens came forward one by one to build a firm line of defense for the elderly around them.

　　Citizen He Yongqiang lives in the Jinqi New Town Phase II community. Among the 18 buildings and 2,662 households, the elderly account for more than half.

He Yongqiang has served as a volunteer in Buildings 5 ​​and 6 since the implementation of the lockdown in Puxi on April 1.

There are 11 elderly people over the age of 80 in the two buildings, and 3 elderly people living alone.

　　In addition to solving the problem of insufficient supplies, He Yongqiang pays special attention to the psychological condition of the elderly living alone and the problem of dispensing medicines.

Every time he accompanies the elderly to go downstairs for nucleic acid testing, he will chat with the elderly to soothe their emotions and eliminate their inner unease.

In order not to let the elderly who need to take medicine stop taking the medicine, He Yongqiang called several hospitals, and with the help of the doctor, the medicine was dispensed for the elderly in time.

The medicines for the elderly need to be prepared in different hospitals, so he tried every means to get all the medicines he needs from several hospitals.

　　During the epidemic, He Yongqiang was not the only citizen who took action.

What touched people's hearts was not only the care of relatives and friends, but also the mutual help of neighbors.

　　Young and energetic young men took the initiative to volunteer. The neighbors who are short of oil and salt help each other. The doctors in the community go from house to house to inquire from house to house and help them dispense medicines. warming up.

　　During the lockdown period, more than 100 residents of Beigang Community, Nanqiao Town, Fengxian District, voluntarily established the "Beigang Community Care Group for the Elderly Living Alone" to take the initiative to take care of the life of the elderly living alone and start a warm-hearted relay.

At present, they have raised 5,166 yuan in charity funds, and sent the oil and rice they purchased centrally to 72 elderly families.

The "Love Group" calls on everyone to help the elderly living alone around themselves one-on-one, and publish the orders for the children of the elderly outside the closed control area in the group, and the caring residents will take the orders. convention.

　　At the beginning of the epidemic, young people from the Youyi Road Sub-district Service Office in Baoshan District focused on key groups such as living alone, the elderly, and those with limited mobility, and carried out services such as active care, epidemic prevention publicity, demand inquiries, and psychological counseling, so as to keep abreast of the elderly’s home status during the epidemic. Physical condition and difficult demands, and strive to weave an emergency safety net covering the living materials of the needy people in the jurisdiction.

　　In order to alleviate the anxiety of the elderly due to being unable to go out to dispense medicines, the Epidemic Prevention and Control Emergency Pioneer Team in Wujiaochang Street, Yangpu District has set up a special medical team to solve the problem of residents' "medicine jars".

　　Citizen Qian Asia, who took the initiative to help the elderly in the building order supplies online and deliver urgently needed supplies to them, led a group of young people in the community to become volunteers for the elderly.

"It is right for people to do more good deeds and repay the society more in their lives," Qian Yazhou said.

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