(Fighting new crown pneumonia) 5 experts from Sichuan will go to Italy to help prevent and control new crown pneumonia

China News Network, Chengdu, March 11th (Wang Peng) A reporter learned from the West China Hospital of Sichuan University on the 11th that five experts from Sichuan Province will bring humanitarian relief materials to Shanghai that afternoon, and will form a Chinese Red Cross epidemic prevention expert group to go to Italy to assist New crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control.

The Chinese Red Cross Anti-epidemic Expert Team of the trip was led by a vice chairman of the Chinese Red Cross Society and an expert from the Chinese National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and five experts from Sichuan Province were appointed to participate. They are Liang Zong'an and Tang Menglin, experts of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Tong Wenbin, deputy director and chief technician of the Institute of Microbiology, Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ji Jin, lecturer of the Foreign Language School of Sichuan University, and Qin Xiaoli, director of the Chengdu Red Cross Disaster Preparedness Center.

Farewell to colleagues before departure. Photo by Zhang Lang

During the epidemic, Liang Zong'an, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, has been working in the frontline of the intensive care unit of the Chengdu Public Health Clinical Medical Center, and is the executive deputy leader of the Sichuan New Crown Pneumonia Medical Treatment Expert Group. Recently, his work has been completed on a periodic basis and is under medical observation and cultivation.

"The high epidemic period in China has passed, and our main purpose this time is to see if our experience is useful to Italy." Liang Zongan said that the epidemic has no national borders and will take the time to understand the epidemic when it arrives in Italy. Colleagues exchange experience in epidemic prevention and promote cooperation between the two sides in the medical and health field.

Liang Zong'an said that the epidemic situation in Italy is very similar to that in China. During this trip, he carried the relevant literature, regulations, guidelines and reports from medical experts on the prevention and treatment of the new crown pneumonia in China, and made a long-term " "Combat". "Our arrival in Italy may not be on the front line, but more a guide for patient treatment and epidemic prevention and control."

The expert group was interviewed by the media before departure. Photo by Zhang Lang

Tang Menglin, the pediatric ICU nurse at the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, also said that China's epidemic prevention and control has achieved staged results and she will bring China's experience to Italy. "Although the task came in a hurry, I was ready."

"I am very honored to make my own contribution to the prevention and control of the global new crown pneumonia epidemic," said Ji Jin, a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages ​​of Sichuan University. A reserve of medical knowledge and vocabulary.

At the ceremony on that day, Li Weimin, president of the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and Zhang Wei, secretary of the party committee, saw off the experts.

It is understood that five experts from Sichuan will arrive in Shanghai on the evening of the 11th, apply for visas and other procedures in Shanghai, and then form a Chinese Red Cross Anti-epidemic Expert Group to fly to Italy. (Finish)