(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) During the epidemic, none of the orphaned children in the Mainland of China and the children who were rescued were infected
China News Agency, Beijing, April 24 (Reporter Wang Zumin) During the epidemic, none of the children ’s welfare institutions, minors ’rescue and protection institutions in the mainland of China, and 177,000 scattered orphans in the society were infected.
At the press conference in the second quarter of 2020 held by the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs on the 24th, Ni Chunxia, deputy director of the Child Welfare Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, disclosed the above information. She said that there are currently 1,217 child welfare institutions nationwide, focusing on raising 65,000 orphaned children; there are 1,806 minor rescue and protection institutions that have temporarily assisted 5,675 children in various care situations since January. None of the children in all these institutions are infected. In addition, there were 177,000 scattered orphans in the society, and no one was infected.
Ni Chunxia said that most of the children raised in child welfare institutions suffer from serious basic diseases. Among them, seriously ill and disabled children account for 98% of the total abandoned children in the institution. Once these children are infected, the consequences are unimaginable. Their weak protection capabilities and their concentration in institutions have brought great challenges to the epidemic prevention and control of these institutions, but "we have stood the test".
Ni Chunxia said that since the outbreak of the outbreak, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has studied and deployed prevention and control measures for the first time. On January 23, it issued an emergency notice for the prevention and control of outbreaks in service agencies in the field of child welfare. Strictly guard against key parts and key links.
With the rapid deterioration of the epidemic, on January 27, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued an emergency guideline for epidemic prevention and control of children's institutions, further improving the prevention and control requirements, and proposed ten specific work measures to prevent all possible sources of infection; National video conferences, working groups dispatched to Wuhan, emergency coordination of prevention and control materials, and the opening of green channels for children ’s daily treatment, etc., fully deployed, guided, and supported the prevention and control of epidemic situations in child welfare institutions. At the same time, through WeChat video connection and other methods, 13 batches of 61 child welfare institutions and minor rescue and protection institutions covering all provinces were organized to conduct video spot checks to find out the current status of first-line prevention and control, and timely discover risk points and Corrected; relied on the network platform to organize five special trainings for dean prevention and control, and trained nearly 1,500 deans.
Ni Chunxia emphasized that this time children in child welfare institutions and minor rescue and protection institutions can achieve "zero infection", and front-line staff of related institutions have made great contributions. In the past three months, they have taken the hospital as their home, interpreted their responsibilities and responsibilities with their actual actions, and kept the children's security line during the epidemic.
"In the next step, we will continue to guide localities to implement differentiated and precise prevention and control according to the risk level according to the deployment of the local joint defense and joint control working mechanism, coordinate the work of returning to school for some children in the organization, and summarize the practical experience in the prevention and control of the epidemic. To study and prepare normative standards for the prevention and control of sudden infectious disease outbreaks by child welfare institutions and rescue and protection institutions for minors. "Ni Chunxia said. (Finish)