More than 40 public officials in 20 days were held accountable due to poor epidemic prevention and control. Grassroots cadres urgently need to improve their ability to respond to risks
● From July 20 to August 10, a total of more than 40 public officials in many places were held accountable for ineffective epidemic prevention and control. Has become regular and has become a powerful guarantee for party governance
● Some party members and leading cadres have insufficient awareness of epidemic risks and lax thinking. Under the current situation, they do not regard epidemic prevention and control as the primary normalization work. At the same time, they do not have sufficient ability to respond to epidemic risks, resulting in loopholes in their work
● It is very necessary to strengthen professional emergency response training for party members and leading cadres to help them better respond to various public emergencies
□ Our reporter Chen Lei
□ Our newspaper trainee reporter Sun Tianjiao
In the past month, the Delta virus, the latest variant of the new crown virus, quickly broke through the epidemic defense lines in many places in my country, leading to "multiple occurrences and local outbreaks" in more than a dozen provinces.
The reason is that in addition to the strong spreading ability and fast spreading speed of the delta mutant strain, the laxity of the epidemic defense line in some places cannot be ignored.
According to the statistics of the "Rules of Law Daily" reporter, since the screening of 9 cases of Delta virus infection at Nanjing Lukou Airport on July 20, as of August 10, a total of more than 40 public officials in many places have been affected by poor prevention and control of the epidemic. The Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision notified the accountability.
Experts interviewed by reporters believe that the epidemic is a risk, and prevention and control is a responsibility. So many public officials have been held accountable for ineffective epidemic prevention and control, which not only reflects that my country has consolidated its responsibilities for epidemic prevention and control through normalized accountability, but also shows that it is facing When the epidemic spreads risk, there are still public officials, especially individual leading cadres, who lack the awareness and ability to deal with it in a normal way.
It is recommended to establish and improve the risk management system of leading cadres to improve the ability and level of leading cadres to deal with risks.
Multiple local outbreaks
Many people were held accountable in a month
No one thought that one person would cause a city to be locked down, but such a thing happened in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province.
On July 21, Mao Moulin, in his 60s, took a bus from Lukou Street, Jiangning District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province to his sister's house in Yangzhou to visit relatives.
On July 27, Mao Mouning went to the hospital due to physical discomfort, and the nucleic acid test result was positive.
In the subsequent screening of close-knit populations, many people were infected with the new coronavirus.
According to public information, as of August 10, Yangzhou City had reported a total of 448 confirmed local cases, and the infected virus belonged to the Delta mutant strain.
Wu Zhenglong, governor of Jiangsu Province, recently stated at a related dispatch meeting that the Yangzhou epidemic occurred early and was discovered later. In confined places where people gather, the elderly are mostly elderly, and the prevention and control situation is very serious and complicated.
Related to the rapid spread of the epidemic is that individual public officials have been held accountable for failing to perform their duties in the prevention and control of the epidemic and their work style is not solid.
On August 8, the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Yangzhou City reported that 8 public officials were held accountable, including many party members and leading cadres.
For example, Jiang Wei, member of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Health and Health Commission of Yangzhou City’s Hanjiang District, and deputy head of the circulation and isolation group of the district epidemic prevention and control headquarters, was punished by government affairs. Ding Mingzhe, deputy commander-in-chief of the control headquarters, was asked to conduct an inspection and was criticized by a notification.
The outbreak in Yangzhou came from Nanjing.
On July 20, Nanjing Lukou Airport screened 9 cases of infection during routine nucleic acid tests by staff.
Subsequently, the Nanjing epidemic spread to Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Liaoning, Shandong, Beijing and other places.
On August 7, Jiangsu Province and Nanjing City successively notified Nanjing Lukou International Airport about the handling of the ineffective management and supervision responsibilities of the epidemic prevention and control of Nanjing Lukou International Airport. A total of 15 people were held accountable.
Among them, Hu Wanjin, the deputy mayor of Nanjing, was punished by government affairs, and Fang Zhongyou was removed from the posts of secretary and director of the Nanjing Municipal Health Commission.
On August 10, Feng Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Eastern Airport Group Co., Ltd., and Xu Yong, Deputy Secretary and General Manager of the Party Committee, were suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and were subject to review and investigation.
Prior to this, Feng Jun was suspended on July 23.
From July 20 to August 10, Jiangsu Province has held 25 public officials accountable for ineffective epidemic prevention and control.
During this period, an outbreak occurred in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Follow-up viral gene sequencing found that it had nothing to do with the Nanjing epidemic.
At that time, the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee decided to remove Fu Guirong from the position of Secretary and Director of the Zhengzhou Municipal Health Commission.
The Zhengzhou Municipal Health Commission’s Party Group removed Ma Shuhuan from the position of Secretary of the Party Committee of the Sixth People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou.
Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, which is linked to the Nanjing Lukou Airport epidemic, also experienced an epidemic, and 18 public officials were held accountable.
The reporter's statistics found that from July 20 to August 10, a total of more than 40 public officials in many places were held accountable for ineffective epidemic prevention and control.
In an interview with reporters, Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of Peking University's Research Center for Integrity Construction, said that the accountability system for officials in my country was born with frequent emergencies.
The accountability of so many public officials shows that with the implementation of the Supervision Law, the Accountability Regulations and other laws and regulations within the party, accountability has become regular and has become a powerful guarantee for party governance.
In Zhuang Deshui's view, at present, the Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the implementation of epidemic prevention and control decisions and deployment. Disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies use accountability tools to compact epidemic prevention and control responsibilities, which will help ensure the implementation of epidemic prevention and control decisions and deployments in various regions.
It can be said that where the prevention and control of the epidemic is not strict and the implementation of policies is not in place, there will be accountability, so as to improve the awareness of responsibility of party members and leading cadres for the prevention and control of the epidemic.
"But accountability itself cannot deal with the risk of the epidemic. It is only an afterthought for the loopholes in the prevention and control of the epidemic. At the same time, it warns party members and leading cadres to attach importance to dealing with risks ideologically, to deal with risks in a normal manner, and to use risks as a test of the level of coping capabilities. '." Zhuang Deshui said.
Song Wei, Dean of the School of Marxism at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, analyzed that the accountability of public officials in many places caused by the current round of the epidemic not only reflects the current “zero tolerance” for any dereliction of duty under the current background of strict governance of the party, it also reflects It is true that a small number of leading cadres lack a sense of responsibility.
The root cause lies in a small number of leading cadres' weak sense of responsibility and lack of risk awareness.
Prevention and control of multiple loopholes
There are shortcomings in dealing with risks
The reasons why these public officials are held accountable are distributed in multiple links of epidemic prevention and control.
Some public officials underestimate the situation of epidemic prevention and control.
For example, Xiang Ciyong, member of the Standing Committee of the Yongding District Committee and Executive Deputy District Mayor of Zhangjiajie City, as the executive deputy commander of the epidemic prevention and control work in Yongding District, underestimated the epidemic prevention and control situation, the scheduling was not strict, scientific, and compact, and the command organization was not operating efficiently. , The progress of prevention and control work is relatively slow, and the fulfillment of leadership responsibilities is not in place.
Was given a warning within the party.
Some public officials do not have a strong sense of risk.
For example, Deng Huabin, the former director of the emergency department in the old district of Zhangjiajie People’s Hospital, as the first person in charge of on-site management of nucleic acid detection sites in the emergency department, has low risk awareness, does not visit the site in person, and has poor scheduling and command, resulting in chaotic inspection sites and crowds of personnel. Keep a safe distance according to the prescribed standards, there is a serious risk of cross-infection, nosocomial infection, and bear direct responsibility for this problem.
Was removed from the post of director of the emergency department.
Some dereliction of duty in the isolation control link.
The Yangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that from July 29 to August 1, during the re-examination of Wang Qiang, a staff member of the Financial Settlement Center in Wantou Town, Guangling District, Yangzhou City, who tested positive for nucleic acid, the Hanjiang District of Yangzhou City concerned In terms of dereliction of duty in the isolation control and other links, the implementation of prevention and control measures is false and detailed, which has caused the spread of the epidemic.
Some follow-up supervision is not effective.
Hu Huajian, captain of the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Brigade of the Cultural Tourism, Radio, Film and Sports Bureau of Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie City, is responsible for the supervision and management of the normal epidemic prevention and control of charming Xiangxi performing arts venues.
During the performance of "Charming Xiangxi", tourists did not wear masks throughout, and the killing between performances was not thorough enough.
In this regard, Hu Huajian was directly responsible for the ineffective follow-up supervision and was given a serious warning within the party.
Some have inadequately performed management and supervision responsibilities for epidemic prevention and control.
For example, Wang Chao, former deputy general manager and office director of the Eastern Airport Group, who is also the commander of the airport’s foreign epidemic prevention and control headquarters, is suspected of negligence and ineffective management and supervision of epidemic prevention and control, causing heavy losses and adverse effects. Jiangsu Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection The Supervisory Committee reviewed and investigated the case and took lien measures.
According to Zhuang Deshui’s analysis, the reasons for the accountability of these public officials show that, in addition to some party members and leading cadres’ insufficient awareness of the epidemic risk and lax ideology, it also shows that they have not regarded epidemic prevention and control as the primary normalization under the current situation. The job is to grasp, and at the same time, there is not enough ability to deal with the risk of the epidemic, which leads to loopholes in the work.
In Song Wei's view, now that he has entered a risky society, risk awareness has increasingly become an important competency necessary for leading cadres.
The Party Central Committee has repeatedly emphasized the major risks we face, including domestic economic, political, ideological, social risks, and natural risks. If leading cadres cannot form a scientific and rigorous risk awareness, it is impossible to form effective risk research and judgment. It is even more impossible to come up with effective measures and methods when risks come.
This is also the reason behind the many problems exposed in this round of the epidemic.
Song Wei believes that from a realistic perspective, a small number of leading cadres do have some shortcomings in the process of dealing with various risks including social risks. A scientific and rigorous risk awareness has not yet been formed; there is a lack of in-depth learning and understanding of risk management mechanisms, and emergency management capabilities are weak.
Improve emergency response capabilities
Improve the risk management system
The problem of a small number of leading cadres' insufficient ability to deal with risks has attracted the attention of the central government.
Recently, Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, went to Nanjing and Henan Province to investigate the epidemic prevention and control work.
Sun Chunlan emphasized during a survey in Nanjing that foreign defense input is always the top priority of epidemic prevention and control and cannot be relaxed for a moment. All departments must perform their duties and everyone has the responsibility to take responsibility and implement relevant policies.
All localities should establish normalized prevention and control and emergency response conversion mechanisms, promptly activate the command system, strengthen monitoring and early warning, and strictly report systems.
Sun Chunlan pointed out during his investigation in Henan Province that all localities should strengthen the training of epidemic prevention and control policies, guidelines, and implementation plans for party and government officials to help them master professional knowledge of disease prevention and control, and improve emergency response capabilities and levels.
So, how to improve the ability of party members and leading cadres to deal with risks?
Zhuang Deshui believes that the first need to identify and prevent risks.
The risks here are mainly public emergencies. In addition to traditional natural disasters and man-made accidents, they also include public health events, such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
It is necessary to continuously improve and improve the joint defense and joint control system, integrate the management resources of various departments and various places, and strengthen cooperation, evaluate the risks that may occur in some important areas and key links, and urge party members and leading cadres to carry out normal prevention.
Secondly, it is necessary to improve personal ability, including comprehensive ability, professional ability and emergency response ability, to continuously solve problems and solve difficult problems.
"It is very necessary to strengthen professional emergency response training for party members and leading cadres to help them better respond to various public emergencies." Zhuang Deshui said.
Song Wei’s suggestion is to strengthen the degree of ideological emphasis, and use risk management capabilities as one of the factors in the selection and appointment of cadres; establish and improve a risk management system, supervise and urge leading cadres to conduct research and judgment on various risks on a regular basis; The “one-vote veto” for negligence of responsibility and dereliction of duty should maintain severe penalties for such behaviors and phenomena.
The interviewed experts agreed that my country has established a legal system for emergency response, including emergency response laws, public health emergency response regulations, and other relevant laws and regulations. The response activities such as early warning, emergency response and rescue, and post-event recovery and reconstruction should be standardized. Party members and leading cadres should raise their level of awareness of the law in response to emergencies and transform them into the ability to respond to emergencies in accordance with the law.
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