China to bolster disease control system in post-virus overhaul

 

FILE PHOTO: Zhong Nanshan, head of the National Health Commission's team investigating the novel coronavirus outbreak, attends an interview with Reuters in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Suen

 

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will strengthen its disease control centres and improve the deployment of resources to resolve shortcomings in its health system exposed by the novel coronavirus outbreak, the state planning agency said on Friday.

 

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said great progress had been made in the "people's war" against the coronavirus, but it had "also exposed a large number of shortcomings and systemic problems in the prevention and control of major epidemics".

 

National- and provincial-level Centres for Disease Control (CDCs) would focus on building up their capacity to detect epidemics, and would also be entrusted to draw up rapid response plans to tackle outbreaks, the commission said.

 

The agency also promised to upgrade biosafety labs run by the CDCs and build labs in more cities. It would also provide better equipped hospitals in rural regions.

 

It said it would "adjust" the deployment of existing medical resources but did not mention additional funding.

 

The novel coronavirus emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. It has infected more than 5 million people globally and killed more than 332,000.

 

Much blame for the pandemic has been put on the slow response of authorities in Wuhan. One study estimated infections could have been cut by 95% if authorities had locked down the city three weeks earlier.

 

Senior government adviser Zhong Nanshan, an expert on coronaviruses, told Reuters in February that China's CDCs needed independent powers to declare emergencies and take the lead in mobilising responses to outbreaks.

 

Even before this outbreak, experts and legislators were urging the central government to give regions more power and resources to respond more quickly to health crises.

 

Cai Weiping, an HIV specialist from Guangdong province, proposed last year that local authorities needed powers to issue epidemic warnings and take action independently.

 

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2 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

One study estimated infections could have been cut by 95% if authorities had locked down the city three weeks earlier.

Rather than lying about it, trying to cover it up and telling the world it wasn't transmissible person to person when it clearly was.

"shortcomings and systemic problems"' can also be described as lies and deceit.

 

3 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

National- and provincial-level Centres for Disease Control (CDCs) would focus on building up their capacity to detect epidemics, and would also be entrusted to draw up rapid response plans to tackle outbreaks, the commission said.

how will it work out when all final decisions are made by the central government in Beijing, this will only be possible if the central government delegates power to the local government, by doing so CCP would lose control/grip.... look at what happen back in December in  Wuhan, local governments can not bother the central government with this type of complains, otherwise they will look bad and they will lose funding, in China anything and everything is based on the ratings, green, yellow or red cards, local governments should not have to many yellow ones even less red. Reporting/detecting outbreaks of any sort of epidemic can only happen if the CCP changes their politics or if the Chinese start to be honest and truthful on their reportings and that will never happen,

though proven it wasn't from there, the wet market be an area to focus on control

Maybe a good start would be to legislate the bush meat trade and to educate the citizenry not to eat everything or anything that moves?

China has lost all credibility.

Here’s what the world wants from China:

• reparations for job losses and shattered economies

• honesty about the origins and intentions of their Wuhan virus

• hands off Hong Kong

• hands off Taiwan

• restore Mekong River flows

• abolish clams for South China Sea and Spratly Islands

• stop stealing western technology

and so much more...

Edited May 23, 20206 yr by Isaan sailor

21 hours ago, Isaan sailor said:

China has lost all credibility.

Lost?

 

 

21 hours ago, bluedoc said:

Nice memes. Got any more?