Ensuring Medical Supplies and Treating Patients at All Cost

The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee emphasized at its meeting on February 3 that the supply of all kinds of medical protective materials must be ensured and no effort shall be spared to treat the patients. It also demanded raising the admission rate and the recovery rate, and lowering the infection rate and the case fatality rate.

Sparing no effort to treat the patients is a prominent task of epidemic control. The central leadership decided at the meeting that more hospitals for collective treatment would be built and put into use as early as possible, and more medical workers from other parts of the country be dispatched to meet Wuhan's need. They also urged protecting the physical and psychological health of medical workers. They required coordination in the deployment of personnel to concentrate the competent medical workers and gather all severe cases for treatment, and timely promotion of the effective practices of various hospitals in curing severe patients.

When inspecting the national distribution center for major anti-epidemic medical supplies, Premier Li Keqiang called for greater efforts to ensure the production and supply of key medical protective equipment, speed up the manufacturing of anti-epidemic medical supplies, and enhance supply capacity. He said that these efforts together would provide necessary conditions for lowering the mortality rate, raising the recovery rate, and implementing solid prevention and control measures. To increase supply is to enhance fighting capacity against the epidemic, therefore it is a must to fully tap the production potential, to race against the clock to increase output while ensuring quality, and to take possible measures to expand supply. 

The premier emphasized improving the standards for appropriate use of anti-epidemic medical supplies in different places and for different groups of people. He said that medical workers fighting at the front line also need protection and they should have priority access to key medical protective equipment. 

He required the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council to improve unified distribution of major anti-epidemic medical supplies across the country. All functional departments should make concerted efforts to ensure the supply of medical resources to Hubei province, especially Wuhan and other key regions hit hard by the epidemic.

全力以赴救治患者，保障醫療防護物資供應

中共中央政治局常委會2020年2月3日召開會議強調，要全力以赴救治患者，保障醫療防護物資供應，努力提高收治率和治愈率、降低感染率和病死率。

全力以赴救治患者，是防控工作的突出任務。會議強調，集中收治醫院要盡快建成投入使用，繼續根據需要從全國調派醫務人員支援武漢，同時保護好醫務人員身心健康。要統籌做好人員調配，盡量把精兵強將集中起來、把重癥病人集中起來，統一進行救治，及時推廣各醫院救治重癥病人的有效做法。

2月1日，國務院總理李克強赴疫情防控國家重點醫療物資保障調度平臺考察時強調，全力保障重點醫療防護物資生產供應，加快醫療防控物資生產、增加供應保障能力，是降低疫情感染患者死亡率、提高治愈率和做好防控工作的必要條件。增加供應就是增強抗擊疫情的戰斗力，要充分挖掘潛在產能，在保證質量的基礎上爭分奪秒增加生產，還要創造條件擴大產能。要完善不同場所、不同人群科學使用醫療防控物資的標準，醫護工作者戰斗在抗擊疫情第一線舍己救人，自身也需要防護，重點醫療防控物資首先要保證他們的需要。國務院聯防聯控機制要加強重點醫療防控物資全國統一調度，各職能部門要齊心協力，對湖北省特別是武漢市等疫情防控重點地區，醫療防控物資要優先保障。