Lou Yihua: Emergency response in special periods requires unified leadership and coordinated response

In the face of epidemic prevention and control, some units have panicked. For example, the Hubei Red Cross Society has been on the cusp of public opinion in recent days. There were mistakes in the distribution of donated materials, the Wuhan Union Hospital, which needed the most protective materials, was not in place, and the Wuhan Renai Hospital, which was not an epidemic prevention and control unit, instead sent materials, which made the media and the people very dissatisfied. In the midst of a wave of doubts, the Hubei Red Cross Society immediately came out to explain, and in the panic, it wrote the date wrong, which was originally January 31, 2020, and wrote "January 31, 2019". The Red Cross, which was already in a crisis of trust, once again made society feel that it lacked the ability to work, and the level of trust declined again.

The problems exposed by the Hubei Red Cross Society, when dealing with major incidents, lack of emergency response capabilities, and usually lack a sense of crisis and urgency. In fact, the Red Cross is the department that responds to various emergencies, and it must be ready to respond to various emergencies. When a crisis comes, it is necessary to urgently adjust the working state. Activate the emergency plan, deal with various things in an orderly manner, busy and not busy. After the outbreak of the epidemic, there is definitely not only one unit similar to the Hubei Red Cross Society," but some units are still hidden and not exposed to the spotlight, and the people of the whole country are reviewed through the media.

Many grass-roots units have received prevention and control documents from multiple departments at higher levels, and red-headed documents have been issued at each level from the central to provincial, municipal, and county levels, and at the level of various towns and villages, grass-roots cadres have to report a lot of information, and the information reported is roughly the same, and a lot of time is wasted on filling in materials. Many grassroots cadres complained that the prevention and control area at the grassroots level was wide and the households were scattered. Especially in rural areas, it is not easy to investigate and register the situation of each household, and it takes a lot of time and energy. This is typical formalism. It also violates the spirit of the "Circular on Resolving Prominent Problems of Formalism to Reduce the Burden on the Grassroots" of the CPC Central Committee, and is even more contrary to the requirements of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee to "promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities."

To prevent and control the epidemic, emergency response should be synchronized and coordinated. All provinces, cities and counties have set up a unified "leading group for the prevention and control of the pneumonia epidemic caused by the new coronavirus infection", but some places still think about problems with a normalized work thinking and use traditional working methods to carry out work. Some functional departments only seek their own convenience, do not act in unison with other departments, do not communicate and coordinate with other departments, and simply push down the task, seemingly active deployment, but in fact let grass-roots cadres fall into repetitive and inefficient work.

General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important instruction on January 27, stressing that party committees at all levels should scientifically judge the situation, accurately grasp the epidemic situation, and unify leadership, command and action. At present, the situation of epidemic prevention and control is complex and severe, and it is impossible to go it alone. Under the leadership of the "Leading Group for Prevention and Control Work" led by the Health Commission and the emergency management department, and established by multiple departments, the "Anti-Novel Coronavirus Epidemic Command" is the overall command and coordination of the work, and the command is unified, deployed and coordinated. The epidemic prevention and control work will be carried out in an orderly and orderly manner.

The reporter learned from the Shanghai Institute of Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on January 31 that the joint research of the Institute and the Wuhan Institute of Virology initially found that the oral liquid of the proprietary Chinese medicine Shuanghuanglian can inhibit the new coronavirus. After the dissemination of several authoritative media, it quickly spread throughout the north and south of the river. A few minutes after the release of the consumption, the online pharmacy's double huanglian oral solution, capsules, and veterinary double huanglian preparations were sold out. Within an hour, the drug was also snapped up in major physical pharmacies. Subsequently, the relevant medical team spoke out urgently, and there was no strong evidence to prove the efficacy of the drug. The main components of double yellow lian are honeysuckle, skullcap, forsythia, and the auxiliary material is sucrose. At present, there is no strong evidence that it is effective against the new coronavirus. In the "Diagnosis and Treatment Plan for Novel Coronavirus Infection Pneumonia (Trial Fourth Edition)", this drug is also not recommended. Obviously, this time the news is disseminated, China's media have not done a multi-party verification, but the speech released by one or one unit of expert teams shall prevail and spread the news.

In the face of epidemic prevention and control, information disclosure is also an important aspect of testing the emergency handling capabilities of party committees and governments. Relevant experts should be cautious when publishing news, and cannot publish messages at will. During the SARS period in 2003, the news of "Chinese herbal lotion Jie Er Yin prevention sarcasm is a good recipe" launched by the Shanghai Institute of Medicine was vividly remembered and became a big joke. The release of information on epidemic prevention and control should be uniformly released by the press spokesperson, and the "Press Law Spokesperson System for the Headquarters for Combating the Novel Coronavirus Epidemic" should be formulated.

The rhythm, time, and how to disclose information all test the emergency response capabilities of epidemic prevention and control. Improper disposal will cause adverse effects. The accurate, orderly and benign disclosure of information after the outbreak of this epidemic event is indeed relatively slow, of course, the reasons are more complicated, but in any case, it is indeed too late. What is the reason, I believe the relevant departments will give the public an answer.

In modern government affairs and governance, we must take the facts as the basis, properly allocate all kinds of information resources, and take the lives and property of the people as the first consideration in everything. It is believed that after experiencing the test of epidemic prevention and control, all levels of the country will do a good job of summarizing and implementing it. Implement the emergency response capability to every government affairs link, when the emergency comes, we can calmly face it and deal with it accurately. (Text/Lou Yihua)