Chinanews.com, February 25th. According to the US Chinese website, on the 24th local time, the second batch of medical supplies for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic donated by the Chinese Activity Center in Houston, USA has arrived at the central warehouse. Volunteers quickly began to sort and pack And labeling, to complete the material distribution of 5 key hospitals in Hubei Province.
This batch of medical supplies was purchased based on feedback from frontline medical staff, mainly including protective clothing, masks, goggles, etc., which were donated to five hospitals in Hubei Province: Yangtze River New Town Fangcai Hospital, Wuhan Mental Health Center, Union Hospital Cancer Center, Wuhan Huangpi District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shiyan People's Hospital.
Volunteers at the Houston Chinese Activity Center volunteer to pack and move. (Photo by Yang Xiao, American Chinese Website)
This batch of nearly 2 tons of materials will be shipped this week to the Dallas Air China Cargo warehouse, and the Air China cargo plane will be shipped to China on March 2.
The Houston Chinese Activity Center, which responded to the epidemic as soon as possible, launched a donation team to fight the epidemic on January 24 to urgently initiate fundraising to local Chinese. The first batch of donations ended on January 31. Within one week, the Chinese Activity Center received a total of 319 donations, and the total amount of donations reached 107,352.84 US dollars. In addition, it received 2,000 sets of protective clothing and 2,000 goggles donated by the 361 Degrees Group.
The first batch of 1.5 tons of medical supplies, including protective clothing, masks, goggles, medical gloves, etc., have been delivered to the four hospitals donated on February 23, local time: Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan Hankou Hospital, Wuhan No. Eight hospitals, Wudangshan Special Economic Zone Hospital in Shiyan City.
According to Dr. Fan Yuxin, CEO of the Houston Chinese Activity Center, in order to ensure that all medical supplies meet the standards, the Houston Chinese Activity Center has set up a purchasing team with a medical background. Every Chinese volunteer pays for it first. At present, the Houston Chinese Activity Center has received donations of more than 20,000 yuan from Houston Shell Petroleum employees, which will be used to purchase the third batch of medical supplies.
Zhang Jingkun, who has more than 10 years of experience in disease control work, is responsible for the main work of this procurement. He said that in the face of the current difficulties in purchasing masks and protective clothing, and summing up the first batch of procurement experience for materials, this time they changed their minds and were fortunate to find a local medical supplier for the medical center. Larger and more affordable. The next step is to procure positive-pressure breathing masks that are scarce for front-line epidemic prevention personnel.
Wang Fanfan, who is in charge of docking with China, introduced that they started the fundraising and went through the customs declaration process while purchasing medical supplies from February 1. Each link of the overseas Chinese donations in Houston was strongly supported by multiple units. Air China transported materials from Dallas to Beijing free of charge. After the China Charity Federation helped fast customs declaration, entry and quarantine, it entrusted Beijing North China Express International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. to carry out customs clearance for free. It is the relay of such a group of caring people that helped to bring these medical supplies to the front line of the epidemic prevention at the fastest speed.
Karen Kauder came to the Chinese Activity Center for the second time to help with packing. She said that she hoped to use her little action to send some warmth to the medical staff at the front line of the China National Defence Epidemic and said in Chinese "Wuhan Come on. "
The Chinese Activity Center in Houston said that aid to Wuhan, the donation of materials continues, and more medical materials are on the way.