Countries around the world praised fitness efforts to combat the pandemic
When Peng Zhiqiang made a stopover in Serbia to help him and save him from COVID-19 efforts there in March, he thought he would stay in the country only a few weeks. However, the duration of its scale was extended 3 times to 82 days after requests from its hosts.
Among the first public fitness experts sent by the Chinese government to help fight the new coronavirus abroad, Peng and six other team members, all of whom had fought the pandemic in Guangdong Province, shared their experience with medicine in Serbia, and added running with local government. expand coronavirus tests and temporarily build transit hospitals to isolate and treat the growing number of patients.
“The Serbian government and others have accepted our arrival and shown wonderful respect for our work,” Peng, an infectious disease researcher at the Guangdong Provincial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong. “The daily number of new COVID-19 instances in Serbia about 400 when we arrived, and fell to 18 in the following days.”
Since the start of the global pandemic in March, China has sent medical expert groups at the request of foreign governments. In addition to Serbia, countries such as Peru, Bangladesh, Algeria, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea welcomed Chinese medical groups, who shared China’s success in fighting the virus to help combat the global pandemic.
In addition to making non-public visits to consulting efforts to save you and the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese public fitness experts have also held exchanges with their opposing numbers in many other countries and regions affected by the pandemic in recent months through means such as organization and participation. video seminars and the publication of articles from educational studies in foreign journals.
In Serbia, Chinese experts attended the country’s high-level meetings on the prevention and pandemic of COVID-19 on seven occasions and visited 17 villages severely affected by the pandemic. During their nearly three months of stay in the country, they also visited 65 medical services and utilities, participated in 47 seminars on prevention and COVID-19 and provided 15 educational sessions to 1,140 local medical staff, according to the National of China Health Commission.
They also provided advice on the COVID-19 pandemic and patient prevention and treatment, such as the creation of several makeshift hospitals to accommodate and isolate the growing number of cases, which contributed to the effectiveness of the epidemic in Serbia, the commission said. .
In Sao Tomé-et-Principe, Africa, a team of experts from 12 members from China provided technical education and recommendations on COVID-19 prevention and had video exchanges with experts sent to the country through the World Health Organization on topics such as wealth creation. hospitals and conduct epidemiological research. Senior officials in Sao Tome and Principe, adding the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, expressed their gratitude for China’s help, the commission said.
“In Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea, locals and experts warmly applauded China’s achievements in monitoring and preventing COVID-19, and thanked our reports in the opposite battle of the pandemic,” said Zhu Yimin, who led a team of 12-member experts in the two African countries Mayo.
In Zimbabwe, the team also prepared detailed written advice on coVID-19 control and prevention, which were presented to the country’s Minister of Health. The document was founded on China’s reports, adding early evidence, reporting and patient isolation and remedy, and took into account the scenario in Zimbabwe, said Zhu, also deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Health Commission.
The team also brought a lot of medical materials to Zimbabwe, adding masks, appliances and fans, he said.
Before the team left Zimbabwe in late May, the country planned to loosen restrictions to reopen the economy once the epidemic was under control, even as the number of infections was still expanding at the time.
“We pleaded with them to take precautions after the reopening of borders and the restart of the economy, and the fact that measures to control the epidemic could only strengthen the recovery of economic activity to save them from rebounds,” Zhu said.
In addition to medical experts sent abroad, Chinese health care groups in 56 countries have also contributed to local efforts to save you and COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, the National Health Commission said. More than 900 team members in the countries organized nearly 400 education sessions and physical education activities, offering education to more than 20,000 people, he said.