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Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, November 10Zhong Nanshan: Life Support for Health
Xinhua News Agency reporters Xiao Sisi and Xu Hongyi
17 years ago, the fight against SARS bravely carried heavy loads, this year, the fight against the “new crown” was resumed.
“In preventing and controlling the new corona pneumonia epidemic, the price paid is very high. By putting human life and health first, we have succeeded.” On the 9th, “Republic Medal” winner, Chinese Academy of Engineering and national respiratory disease scholar Zhong Nanshan, director of the Center for Clinical Medical Research, said in a national report on advanced facts in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
Since the beginning of this year, faced with the sudden new epidemic of coronary pneumonia, 84-year-old Zhong Nanshan interpreted the concept of “people first, life first” with practical actions, and his prevention and control strategies and treatment measures they have saved countless lives.
Go retrograde to fight the brave new crown
On January 18, Zhong Nanshan boarded the high-speed train from Guangzhou to Wuhan. He was appointed leader of the high-level expert group of the National Health Commission in order to discover an unknown “new type of pneumonia” reported in Wuhan. A few days earlier, Zhong Nanshan also appealed to people across the country that ordinary people should not go to Wuhan if there is no urgent need.
After a field investigation in Wuhan, the senior expert group of the National Health Commission confirmed that this type of “new type of pneumonia” has appeared as “person-to-person transmission.” On January 20, when Zhong Nanshan was interviewed by the media in Beijing, he decisively announced to the public that there was “person-to-person transmission” of the new corona pneumonia, sounding the national alarm for the prevention and control of the new corona pneumonia epidemic.
Since then, he has attended many press conferences to answer questions from the public and inject confidence in the “epidemic” on the front lines of the war.
“The whole country helps, Wuhan can pass! Wuhan has always been a heroic city.” On January 28, at the most anxious moment in Wuhan’s fight against the new corona pneumonia epidemic, Zhong Nanshan said excitedly upon receiving an exclusive interview with the Xinhua news agency.
This is not the first time that Zhong Nanshan has “dared to be a doctor and speak.” Already during the SARS epidemic in 2003, he proposed and confirmed that the cause of SARS was a new type of coronavirus under the backdrop that “the cause is chlamydia” was almost conclusive.
In August 2020, President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order to award Zhong Nanshan the “Med of the Republic” in recognition of his outstanding contributions in fighting the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
People are supreme and life is supreme
“What is the greatest human right? We have saved so many lives. This is the manifestation of our greatest human rights,” Zhong Nanshan said excitedly at the “first lesson” of primary and secondary school students across the country.
On August 27, Zhong Nanshan led the team from the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of Guangzhou Medical University First Affiliated Hospital to announce that a 111-day-old patient with new coronary pneumonia who had used extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to assist in recovery and discharge, created medical treatment. Miracle.
ECMO is currently the basic support method for severe cardiopulmonary failure and is considered the “last straw” for critically ill patients. Zhong Nanshan said: “In the treatment process, as long as there is a ray of hope, we can do anything at all costs. Even patients who appear to be deadly, we still have to rescue them as if they were embroidery.”
In the fight against SARS in 2003, Zhong Nanshan said: “Send me the most seriously ill patients” with a strong and powerful voice; In the fight against the new corona pneumonia epidemic, he once again made the solemnity of “Never give up any patient.” committed to.
During the critical period of fighting the new corona pneumonia epidemic, Zhong Nanshan has also used telemedicine platforms to consult critically ill patients in Hubei and other places on many occasions, giving local doctors and patients “relaxing pills.” “.
“Due to the large number of patients in Wuhan, the central government immediately organized more than 42,000 medical personnel from across the country to support Wuhan and built Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals in a very short period of time. All medical personnel there helped Hubei was able to participate in the resistance. The epidemic is a pride. ” Zhong Nanshan said: “Putting human life and health first, we succeeded.”
“I am a simple medical worker. I am very excited to be able to obtain the ‘Medal of the Republic’. But I think more about the word ‘responsibility’.” He said: “We must redouble our efforts to prevent respiratory diseases and emergencies. The platform for the prevention and control of public health incidents contributes our strength to continue defeating the new coronary pneumonia and the prevention and control of new public health emergencies.”
Health is life support
In the national report on advanced facts in the fight against the new corona pneumonia epidemic, Zhong Nanshan said that the goals of anti-epidemic heroes from all walks of life are the same, because “health is linked to life and life is dependent. “
“The international epidemic is still relatively serious. We cannot stop there. We must improve the level of scientific research and prevention and control, and contribute more to the world,” he said.
While guiding treatment on the front line, Zhong Nanshan has always been on the front line of international medical research, sharing China’s anti-epidemic practices and experience for the first time.
“Infectious diseases know no borders. Overcoming the epidemic requires global cooperation.” Zhong Nanshan said that in the face of the new corona pneumonia epidemic and other epidemics that may break out in the future, humanity must face it together. “Through communication, other countries can avoid detours. Because we have been through a difficult road, we must support each other.”
On January 21, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the establishment of a group of experts in scientific research for the joint prevention and control of the epidemic of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, which is led by academician Zhong Nanshan and 14 experts, to provide scientific and technological support for prevention and first-line treatment.
Today, the scientific research team led by Zhong Nanshan has achieved a series of results in rapid detection, new use of old drugs, vaccine research and development, hospital infection prevention and control, animal models, etc., and has played a important role in the prevention and control of epidemics.
