Wuhan takes efforts to combat novel coronavirus at community level
By People’s Daily
Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus in central China’s Hubei
province, is taking every measure to terminate the spreading of the virus at
community level.
The municipal government is requesting its neighborhood
communities to conduct comprehensive investigation, send vegetables and
medicines to those with trouble going outside, and remind those who develop a
fever to timely examine at community medical and health institutions.
“Thanks to the thermometer and masks offered
by the community workers, as well as their caring sent through the phone calls,
the fever of me and my husband disappeared after about a dozen days, and we
finally feel assured,” said Zhang Yuqin, a 57-year-old citizen from a community
in Zongguan street, Qiaokou district of Wuhan.
Liu Derong, director of the neighborhood committee introduced that the
security guards and volunteers in the community have screened a total of 25
people with fever, carrying out publicity work and disinfecting the streets.
They contact and monitor those with fever every day on schedule, and
help community health service centers with the screening work. They also
request those who stayed closely with the infected to isolate themselves at
home. Besides, they are also releasing real-time information of the epidemic
control and prevention on a neighborhood-based mobile application.
At present, the city is waging a war against
the novel coronavirus, mobilizing all of its neighborhoods and communities.
In Huashan neighborhood of Wuhan’s East Lake
High-Tech Development Zone, 33 Party cadres used megaphones on the streets to
advertise the doggerels they made to encourage the citizens to frequently wash
their hands, reduce the frequency of going out and wear masks.
In Lijiawan, Qingshan district, a fevered man
was sent to the hospital by local police officers who used a wood door as a
stretcher and took the man to an ambulance after carrying him over 1,000
meters.
Now, the city’s community health service
centers are shouldering huge responsibility as the first checkpoints in the
battle against the novel coronavirus, and most of the doctors are working hard
to screen the fevered.
On the afternoon of Jan. 29, receptionists at the community health
service center near Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Hongshan
district were measuring the temperature for visiting citizens with non-contact
infrared thermometers. They inquired the symptoms and contacts of those who had
developed a fever and guided them to the fever clinic.
“To prevent and control the disease, all of our staffs canceled their
holidays and are working on shift to guarantee the precheck for the fever clinic,”
said Zhou Feipeng, chief of the Party branch at the community health service
center.
Since Jan. 25, the center has received over 300 patients with fever.
It also established a 7-member doctor team to visit the families in the
community to avoid frequent “out-of-fear” visits to the center.
Besides, the center is also operating a hotline to teach the citizens
how to self-isolate, on which Wu Min, head nurse of the emergency ward offers
24-hour services with her team.
According to Wuhan Municipal Health
Commission, a total of 205 community health service centers in the city have
established precheck clinics, enabling those with ordinary fever to receive
treatment at community-level institutions. The precheck clinics will also make
orders for the patients that need to be sent to fever clinics or designated
hospitals for further examination.
By the dawn of Jan. 28, 2020, the
community-level health institutions across Wuhan have received 19,202 patients,
screened 4,441 patients with fever, and gave 1,460 patients treatment or
guidance on home isolation.
A doctor at a community health service center in Tangjiadun community,
Jianghan district of Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province introduces basic
knowledge of the novel coronavirus to local citizens, Jan. 21, 2020. (Photo by
Li Changlin, People’s Daily Online)
Wuhan takes efforts to combat novel coronavirus at community level
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