Guide to the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 from Chinese doctors

The best way to fight the unknown virus is to share information and work together, writes Professor Tingbo Liang in the editor's foreword.

The editor-in-chief of the COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment Handbook and chief medical officer of the First Clinical Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine adds that the publication of this handbook will be one of the best ways to recognize the courage and wisdom shown by Chinese healthcare professionals in recent months.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the handbook and shared their invaluable experience with colleagues around the world, thus saving patients' lives. I am grateful to the Jack Ma Foundation and AliHealth for their support.

The work was urgent, so there may be some mistakes and improvements in the handbook, the professor writes. "Your feedback and recommendations are welcome," Tingbo Liang concludes his introduction.

Humanity is waging an unprecedented global war, in which the common enemy is the new coronavirus. Hospitals have become the battlefield, and our healthcare professionals are the soldiers.

To win this war, we need to provide healthcare professionals with the necessary resources and working conditions, including the opportunity to share experience, technical knowledge and facilities. We need to make sure that on the hospital battlefield, we are defeating the virus, not it.

To this end, the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have convened a group of medical experts who have gained clinical experience in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. With the support of experts from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU), they quickly compiled a guide with recommendations on how to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

I would like to express my special gratitude to the medical staff of FAHZU. Taking great risks in treating patients with COVID-19, they also recorded their daily work experience, which is outlined in this guide. Over the past fifty days, FAHZU has received one hundred and four patients with a confirmed diagnosis, including seventy-eight patients in serious and critical condition. Thanks to the efforts of the medical staff and the use of new technologies, we have witnessed a miracle: no hospital staff has been infected, there have been no cases of misdiagnosis or death of patients.

As the pandemic spreads, the Chinese experience has become a weapon for medical professionals around the world. This is a completely new disease and China was the first to be affected by the pandemic. Isolation, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation measures were developed from scratch. We hope that the guide will provide doctors in other affected countries with valuable information so that they do not have to fight alone.

Globalization has turned the disease into a universal problem. Sharing resources, experience and knowledge is our only chance to win. Cooperation will not be an effective remedy to the pandemic, but isolation.

Our struggle is just beginning," says the foreword to the guide.

The guide was distributed by the press service of Odesa Regional State Administration.

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Chronicle of the coronavirus in Odesa region (updated).

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