On June 10, Hongkou District held the recruitment ceremony of clinical experts engaging in public health. Attending the ceremony were Guo Fang, District Party Chief, Hu Guangjie, Deputy District Party Chief and District Governor, Du Songquan, Deputy District Party Chief, and Chen Xiaojie, Deputy District Governor.
On behalf of Hongkou District Party Committee and the district government, Guo extended heartfelt thanks and sincere respect to the experts who supported the pandemic prevention and control in Hongkou, before issuing letters of appointment to Ning Guang, Sun Xiaodong, Zhang Min, Qiu Liping, Wu Huanyu, Zhou Xin, Xiong Lize and other experts.
Guo said that Hongkou is very honored to invite these experts to serve as members of the district's clinical expert group on public health. She hoped that the experts would give full play to their professional advantages, offer advice on pandemic control, emergency response, medical treatment, public health construction and other aspects,and guide the district to better carry out pandemic prevention and control work. She pointed out that we should unswervingly adhere to the general policy of "dynamic zero-Covid", give priority to the principles of people first and life first, have a firm will and put measures in place. We should not only do a good job in normalized pandemic prevention and control, but also guide the public to return to work, production, business and school. We should comprehensively restore the normal production and life order. We should carry forward the spirit of science, with a more resolute attitude and decisive action, spare no effort to promote the construction of the public health system and better protect the health of the people.
Ning Guang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to the Medical School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said that the pandemic situation has made more people aware of the importance of infectious disease prevention and control. The pandemic is bound to greatly change the way of life. We should sum up experiences, promote the construction of a modern disease prevention and control system and a medical consortium, and further improve the level of urban safety management and people's health and safety guarantee. We should focus on key places and major groups such as nursing homes and construction sites, and comprehensively implement various normalized pandemic prevention and control measures.
Sun Xiaodong, deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that vaccinating COVID-19 vaccine is an effective way to obtain immunity and protection. According to him, we should actively promote the integration of medical treatment and prevention, and further improve the construction of disease control system, public health system and emergency management system and mechanism. We should stress politics and science, dare to pursue scientific truth, and guard the bottom line of urban public health safety.