Twenty-four designated hospitals for Olympic Games have reached Olympic standards and criterions in terms of organization institutions, working policies, work procedures, bilingual logos, green channels, barrier-free facilities, language service capability and management on exhilarants and contraband medicines.

A first-class, inner-hospital treatment network of 104 hospitals has been formed with 5,880 emergency beds. These networked third-class, second-class and first-class hospitals are respectively required to reserve rescue medicines and materials for 100 victims for seven days, 50 victims for three days and 20 victims for three days.

After Beijing Ditan Hospital moves to its new location in June and a new Ward of the Beijing You’an Hospital is put into play, there will be a total of 1,350 beds for infectious disease patients. Beijing municipality has 18 negative pressure medical ambulances capable of receiving group infectious disease patients.

A basic blood reservation for clinic blood transfusion consisting of 16,000 bags of Rh Positive blood (200 ml per bag) and 800 bags of Rh negative blood is currently maintained. A mechanism for mobilizing blood donation throughout Beijing and blood transfer coordination among provinces has also been established.

A total of 175,000 medical staff attended medical English trainings and examinations and 3,400 first aid and emergency medical personnel and pre-hospital emergency staff received training on modern and professional medical emergency knowledge, skills and treatment for disasters.

At present, medicines, diagnosis reagents, bacterins, prevention and protection articles, examination apparatus and sterilization and antisepsis medicines have been prepared.

Beijing municipality has issued health knowledge reading books such as Notebooks for Protection of Infectious Disease for Capital Citizens to Beijing citizens and proposed the healthy and civilized way of life. Beijing municipality has set up such specialized programs such as Healthy Olympics and Healthy Beijing and promulgated Several Regulations on No Smoking Scope in Public Areas in Beijing Municipality.

Smoking has been prohibited from public areas and the goal of a non-smoking Olympics is moving forward. Beijing municipality has launched a campaign of No Smoking in Beijing Catering Industry to more than 40,000 restaurants. Two hundred and sixteen non-smoking hospitals and 105 non-smoking schools have been set up.

Some 66,000 non-smoking taxis are now available to the public.

Beijing municipality has carried out a series of international corporation programs on public health emergence management with World Health Organization, France and Israel.

Mr. Han Zhuosheng, general representative of World Health Organization Office in China commented: “World Health Organization is impressed with the great efforts paid by Beijing municipality to the preparation of Olympic public sanitary. We will stand side by side with Beijing municipality firmly in any situation. Beijing municipality has done a great job on preparation of Olympic medical and sanitary. Do not bother to worry about it. World Health Organization will provide all technical support and assistance to Beijing municipality in regard to related jobs of Olympic Games as much as possible in light of the requirement of Beijing municipality government. ”

After the outbreak of the recent Wenchuan earthquake, the capital sanitary system and 160,000 medical staff which is sparing no effort to ensure the fulfillment of Olympic medical and sanitary safeguard work, immediately responded to the call of the Central Communist Party, the State Council, Beijing Municipality Committee and Beijing Municipality Government to support to the hardest hit quake-hit areas.

On the day of earthquake, the capital sanitary system transported 6,000 bags of blood to the quake ravaged areas. Capital citizens have been eager to donate blood and on May 3 alone, Beijingers donated 5,300 bags of blood.

Within the first week of the quake, the Beijing Health Bureau dispatched five groups of medical teams consisting of 518 medical rescue staff from many clinic disciplines such as first aid, chest surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesia, orthopedics, kidney, pediatrics, psychology, Nosocomial Infection and blood dialysis, 70 ambulances, three guarantee vehicles loaded with 12 million yuan worth of medicine and medical apparatus.

(China.org.cn May 28, 2008)