A total of 26 suggestions were proposed by the city’s political advisers to improve the public health emergency management system of Shenzhen at a themed meeting held Tuesday, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday.
In March this year, the city’s political advisory body launched a survey to look into and evaluate Shenzhen’s practices and existing problems in public health emergency response.
Thirty-one municipal political advisers and relevant experts, who were divided into three groups, were mobilized to participate in the survey that lasted for more than three months.
Guo Wanda, a municipal political adviser and executive vice president of China Development Institute, suggested that the city establish a database of facilities for infectious disease medical quarantine and observation.
“I suggest that the emergency function of makeshift hospitals should be considered in the planning and building of large-scale public facilities,” said Guo, who advised that the medical aid system should also be improved.
“It is hoped that the Center for Medical Device Evaluation and the Center for Drug Evaluation of the National Medical Products Administration will set up subcenters in Shenzhen, so as to build a platform for the R&D of local medical devices and pharmaceutical enterprises,” said political adviser Rao Wei.
Political adviser Sun Guoyu suggested that Shenzhen consolidate the information-sharing mechanism during epidemic prevention and control and establish an urban data application laboratory.
In a good public health emergency management system, strong psychological crisis intervention will be an important link.
Hu Chiyi, deputy head of Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, suggested that psychological crisis intervention centers at the municipal and district levels be established, and a unified hotline for psychological assistance be set up.
According to Lo Chung-mau, chief executive of the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen and Hong Kong should further work on a plan for cross-border medical service cooperation.