On September 6, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province held the 18th press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia in 2022. At the press conference, Yang Ting, deputy director of the Nanchong Municipal Health Commission, introduced the situation of the comprehensive intervention of traditional Chinese medicine in Nanchong new coronary pneumonia epidemic prevention and control. "Since this round of epidemic outbreak, the city's health system has fully implemented the decision-making and deployment on "adhering to the equal emphasis on traditional Chinese and Western medicine, combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and using traditional Chinese and Western medicine", giving full play to the unique advantages of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in epidemic prevention and control, and traditional Chinese medicine is involved in the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia in the first time."
According to reports, after Nanchong City designated treatment hospital for new coronavirus pneumonia infection patients ( Nanchong Central Hospital ) admitted patients with new coronavirus pneumonia, it immediately activates the treatment mechanism for integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, organizes remote consultations from traditional Chinese and Western medicine experts, and intervenes in the treatment of new coronavirus pneumonia patients as soon as possible. The traditional Chinese medicine expert group conducted syndrome differentiation treatment on each infected person based on the principles of "three adaptations" and syndrome differentiation treatment, and the participation rate of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment was 100%. After the full intervention and individualized treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, the patient's fever reduction time was shortened, and clinical symptoms such as coughing, sputum, and stomach discomfort were significantly improved. As of 24:00 on September 5, 11 confirmed cases and 421 asymptomatic infections of were cured and discharged from the hospital.
In order to give full play to the preventive role of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and control of new coronavirus pneumonia, Nanchong traditional Chinese medicine medical institutions have united their hearts and minds, and actively carried out the "big pot soup" boiling and distribution services for traditional Chinese medicine, so as to "take as much as you should take" and "take as much as you are willing to take", and contribute traditional Chinese medicine's strength to epidemic prevention and control work. Yang Yingjie's studio, a famous provincial Chinese medicine doctor, formulated a prevention prescription to assist epidemic prevention and control work based on the "Sichuan Province New Coronavirus Pneumonia Autumn 2022 Plan". At the same time, the "Traditional Medicine Health Lecture Hall" was recorded to preach the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine for the prevention of new coronary pneumonia. As of September 5, Nanchong City has distributed nearly 300,000 bags of traditional Chinese medicine prevention decoctions.
In the next step, Nanchong will continue to give full play to the important role of traditional Chinese medicine in fighting the new crown pneumonia epidemic, continue to participate in the treatment of patients with new crown pneumonia, ensure the stable health of patients, and be cured and discharged as soon as possible; continue to expand the coverage of traditional Chinese medicine "big pot soup" service to achieve the effect of citizens' disease prevention; continue to strengthen publicity and provide the public with traditional Chinese medicine health care consultation services.