Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) have praised the
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) prevention and treatment
work in east China's Anhui Province.
A
five-member WHO team, led by noted epidemiologist Arne Brantsaether
from Norway, is currently inspecting the SARS work in Anhui,
together with a working team of China's Ministry of Health.
Brantsaether said Anhui has a highly effective SARS prevention and
treatment system and patients are being taken good care of in
hospitals. The thorough search for SARS victims in both urban and
rural areas is an effective way to contain the spread of the
epidemic.
Anhui, with a population of over 63 million, has more than 1.8
million returned migrant workers from all over the country,
including hard-hit areas. So far seven of the 10 clinically
confirmed SARS cases are such returned workers.
WHO expert Chen Xiangsheng said Anhui has a very good
community-based surveillance network which has mobilized nearly all
of society.
The expert said the province also has a very effective and resolute
decision-making system, all the way from the provincial level down
to the grassroots township level.
(Xinhua News Agency May 25, 2003)
