The 50th anniversary of the dispatch of foreign aid medical teams by Guangdong Province was held Photo courtesy of guangdong provincial health commission
Guangzhou, October 26 (China News Network) -- 50 years ago, Guangdong sent the first 12-person medical team to Equatorial Guinea. Guangdong Province sent foreign aid medical team to the 50th anniversary commemoration activities held on the 26th, the reporter learned from the event that in the past 50 years, the province to Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, the Gambia, Dominica and other countries to send a total of 61 batches of 907 people, foreign aid medical team members have treated 2.391 million patients, performed 58,500 times of various operations, and trained medical and health personnel for relevant countries.
Zhu Hong, director of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission, introduced that Guangdong Province has accumulated some experience in deepening China-Africa health cooperation and innovating foreign aid models by carrying out foreign aid innovation projects such as "China-Canada West Africa Heart Center", "Maternal and Child Health Project" and "China-Malaysia Eye Center" with Ghana and Maldives. At the same time, a series of pragmatic exchanges and cooperation have been carried out with The South Pacific island countries.
Zhu Hong said that it is necessary to understand the special mission and great significance of foreign aid medical work, further improve the political position, inherit and consolidate the historical experience and achievements of the past 50 years, and keep pace with the times to promote foreign aid medical work to create a new situation and achieve new results. It is necessary to continuously reform and innovate the working mechanism and model of Guangdong's foreign aid medical treatment, find out the correct positioning, and constantly enrich the connotation of foreign aid work; explore and innovate, and optimize the mode of medical aid to foreign countries. It is necessary to further improve all kinds of reward and incentive mechanisms for medical aid to foreign countries, and all localities, cities and units should further strengthen their support for foreign aid work.
"We want more people to see China's MSF, its persistence and dedication in a foreign country." Zhang Congzhen, representative of the medical team members who aided Equatorial Guinea, Wei Jianrui, representative of the medical team members who aided Ghana, Yang Zhen, representative of the medical team members who aided Dominica, Lin Chunying, representative of the China-Canada West Africa Heart Center and the expert representative of "Love Walk", Chen Weirong, representative of the experts of "Sending Doctors to the Island" and "Bright Walk", Liu Jun, representative of public health experts who aided Africa to fight the Ebola epidemic, and Peng Zhiqiang, representative of medical experts who aided foreign countries, respectively told their stories of foreign aid.
The meeting said that the current new crown pneumonia epidemic is still raging around the world, bringing new challenges and new requirements to foreign medical work. Guangdong foreign aid medical workers should promote the reform and innovation of foreign aid medical work and show a good image of "white diplomats". The Guangdong Provincial Health Commission and other relevant departments should strengthen the safety and security of overseas team members, establish and improve the emergency response plan for overseas medical team members, establish a "four-in-one" collaborative working mechanism of government departments, dispatching units, experts in the province, and foreign aid medical teams, and solve the difficulties and problems encountered by medical teams abroad. (End)
Source: China News Network