In the treatment of the fifth wave of covid-19 in Hong Kong, Chinese medicine has played an active role. Zhang Zhongde, Vice President of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and Vice President of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, arrived in Hong Kong on March 16 with a mainland medical team dispatched by Guangdong Province, and for several days has been mainly supporting the community isolation facilities at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong to treat COVID-19 patients with traditional Chinese medicine. Recently, Zhang Zhongde accepted an exclusive interview with reporters from the main station to deeply analyze the important role of traditional Chinese medicine in the epidemic situation in Hong Kong.
When meeting with the reporters of the general station, Zhang Zhongde had just finished a medical conference, only to see him come in the clothes of "China Health" and cordially communicate with the reporters of the main station. Zhang Zhongde has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years, and is often affectionately called "Uncle De" by many patients because of his kind and easy-going personality.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Zhang Zhongde has gone out to 10 cities in 9 provinces and 10 cities across the country 11 times, always fighting the new crown virus in the front line, and told the reporter of the main station: "In the past two years, I have been accustomed to carrying a box with me and rushing to various places to help at any time." His 12th expedition came to Hong Kong.
As a famous doctor in Lingnan, Zhang Zhongde is no stranger to Hong Kong. When he sat in Guangzhou, many Hong Kong citizens sought medical treatment, and Zhang Zhongde often traveled to Hong Kong for sightseeing. But the mood of coming to Hong Kong this time is different from every previous one, he described: "This time I came to Hong Kong with the feeling of coming to fight, and this battle is still very difficult to fight." ”
Combined with the field observation and treatment experience in Hong Kong over the past few days, Zhang Zhongde and his team found that the core pathogenesis of this wave of patients in Hong Kong (the mechanism of disease occurrence, development, change and its outcome) is heavier humid, some are cold, some are humidified, and the main symptoms include cough, dry throat and tiredness. According to Zhang Zhongde's long-term clinical experience and experience in treating new crown pneumonia, for such patients, traditional Chinese medicine can play a good therapeutic effect.
"TCM treatment mainly plays several important roles, namely to improve the clinical symptoms of patients with mild disease, reduce the incidence of severe disease, and alleviate the physical discomfort of severe patients." Zhang Zhongde said that the experience of fighting the epidemic in the mainland shows that the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine is a very effective treatment method, that is, the "China Plan", which has a good effect in timely cutting off the development of severe diseases or reducing patient deaths. For patients treated at AsiaWorld-Expo, Mainland experts such as Zhang Zhongde and Hong Kong experts worked together with Chinese and Western medicine experts to adjust and discuss and form a treatment plan.
In the face of the large scale of the epidemic and the large number of confirmed cases of the elderly due to aging, Zhang Zhongde pointed out that there are many difficulties in the fight against the epidemic in Hong Kong, but he saw that the SAR government is mobilizing all the forces that can be mobilized, hong Kong citizens and all walks of life are united in fighting the epidemic, and the diagnosis and treatment protection and rectification plan is becoming more and more mature, orderly and close to practice. The overall organizational arrangements are becoming more and more effective, the points of prevention and control treatment are becoming more and more precise, and now there is also Chinese medicine as a starting point, which makes him full of confidence and confidence in Hong Kong's anti-epidemic work.
Chinese medicine has played an undeniable important role in the treatment of new crown pneumonia, and Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said that in the future, there will be "loosening" in the system and policies to provide more opportunities for the development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong, and also hope that mainland experts will find a new road for the development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong.
Zhang Zhongde said that with the strong promotion of the SAR government, he hopes to help the development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong by integrating the strength of Chinese medicine into the fight against the epidemic. Zhang Zhongde is also very much looking forward to promoting Chinese medicine to the world faster and better through Hong Kong's medical foundation, scientific and technological development, laws and regulations in the future.
On the occasion of parting, Zhang Zhongde did not forget to tell the reporter of the main station how to condition the body through traditional Chinese medicine, and urged the reporter to respond to the epidemic with a strong physique. Easy-going and kind, he also laughed about his biggest wish - Hong Kong quickly get better, he can retire as soon as possible and return to Guangzhou to eat white cut chicken.
Producer/Ren Yongwei
Editor-in-Chief/Bei Zhang
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