China News Service, Changchun, May 16 (Guo Jiachai, Jiaquan, Sun Boyan) "For new toxic infectious diseases, traditional prevention and prevention methods are difficult to control. This time, more than 40,000 medical staff ventured to the epidemic line, actually for The country and the people guard the last line of defense. "Wang Jiangbin, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Department of Gastroenterology at the China-Japan Lianyi Hospital of Jilin University, said in an interview with a reporter from China News in Changchun recently.

　　Since being elected to the National People's Congress for the first time in 2008, Wang Jiangbin has proposed many constructive proposals on free medical examinations for the poor, food and drug safety, reform of public hospitals, and prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

　　China has achieved major strategic achievements in the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. Wang Jiangbin believes that this is closely related to the country ’s increased law enforcement crackdown on the prevention and control of harmful epidemic situations, and the introduction of the "Opinions on the Punishment of the Prevention and Control of Crimes against Pneumonia that Infects New Coronaviruses".

Wang Jiangbin led the doctor to consult the patient. (Information) Photo courtesy of the interviewee 

　　The SARS epidemic in 2003 exposed China's deficiencies in emergency management legislation for public health emergencies. Since then, laws and regulations such as the Law on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases, the Emergency Response Law, the Emergency Regulations for Public Health Emergencies, and other laws and regulations have been promulgated and implemented.

　　"It should be said that the national legal system for the prevention and control of public health emergencies is complete, but the problems exposed in this epidemic show that completeness does not mean perfection, the relevant legal system still has shortcomings, and there are problems such as inconsistencies in the system. So it should be revised in time. "Wang Jiangbin said.

　　Wang Jiangbin said that the current "Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law" stipulates that measures such as "compulsory isolation treatment" can only be taken when a Class A infectious disease is found. In this regard, she suggested that medical institutions should be given "compulsory isolation" for sudden and highly contagious infectious diseases.

　　Wang Jiangbin also suggested that the main body for issuing early warnings of infectious diseases should be expanded from the State Council ’s health administration and provincial (regional, municipal) governments to planned cities, sub-provincial cities, and even prefecture-level cities to win valuable time for infectious disease prevention and control.

　　Wang Jiangbin believes that when the disease prevention and control departments conduct investigations, inspections, and sample collection of infectious diseases for units and individuals, they must have active participation and cooperation from the health administrative department and other relevant departments. "Otherwise it will be difficult to attract people's attention and it will be difficult to achieve the desired results."

　　Wang Jiangbin believes that mobilizing the entire society to actively participate and prevent and control infectious diseases under the rule of law is the only way to move the prevention and control of infectious diseases and other epidemic situations forward so that it will occur less frequently or not. (Finish)