Zhejiang medical and nursing experts help international peers
video connection, spanning 9,000 kilometers
An emergency help email from Ireland led to a video-linked medical exchange spanning nearly 9,000 kilometers.
The sender is Osin O'Connell, a member of the Irish National New Coronary Pneumonia Emergency Committee and a professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Dublin. He tried to contact the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, hoping to learn from his colleagues in China to fight the epidemic.
At 6pm on March 13th, the video connection proceeded as scheduled. On one side are the team of medical experts from the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University and the first-line medical team members in Wuhan, and on the other side are more than 30 experts from major medical institutions and medical schools in Ireland.
How to effectively mobilize manpower and material resources in a short time? How to quickly promote medical staff training? What is your experience in medication? How to solve the problem of material shortage...Ireland raised a series of issues of most concern. Experts from the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University answered the questions one by one, sharing the Chinese plan for epidemic prevention and the Zhejiang experience.
David Galli, the doctor in charge of the intensive care unit of the Oxford University Affiliated Hospital, was informed of the video conference and offered to participate. He turned on the computer at the hospital and joined the video connection with his team colleagues.
The two-hour video exchange is coming to an end. Experts in Ireland said that China’s experience is very valuable. "I thank you on behalf of the Irish people. After the epidemic, I hope you can visit Ireland." Wang Jianan, the president of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University said: " If there is any need for Irish friends, we will spare no effort to help with the epidemic situation."
Within a few days, the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University received another letter from Ireland. Dirde McCarthy, the radio news program and regional executive editor of the National Radio and Television Station of Ireland, proposed in the letter that in addition to medical exchanges between experts, he also wanted to produce a video interview TV program to allow Irish people to understand China’s national defense control. Outbreak experience.
At 6pm on March 20th, the second video connection began. This time, in addition to medical experts, there were several representatives of citizens in Hangzhou who "appeared." Xu Xueying, a professor at the School of Foreign Languages at Zhejiang University, said: "In the past two months, I have baked, exercised, and read books at home, and at the same time, I have been informed of the latest situation of the epidemic through transparent and open official information. Although we are worried, we are not panicking."
In Zhejiang, not only medical and health units have helped international counterparts fight against the epidemic, but many cities and counties have donated anti-epidemic materials and provided technical support to relevant countries, international friendship cities, friendly organizations, and overseas Chinese from overseas. Cooperation and foreign assistance.
At present, Zhejiang Province has donated 152 batches of anti-epidemic materials to international friendship cities, friendly organizations and institutions in 45 countries, embassies and consulates of various countries in China, and embassies and consulates of China abroad, including approximately 5.1 million masks and protective clothing. 68,000 sets and 455,000 pairs of gloves; donated 5.497 million masks and 12,000 sets of protective clothing to overseas Chinese, with a total value of about 36 million yuan.