On Nov. 7, the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference to introduce the situation regarding the implementation of optimized measures for epidemic prevention and control without compromise and with scientific precision.
Guo Yanhong, director of the Medical Emergency Response Department of the National Health and Health Commission, answered reporters' questions as one of the publishers.
Political Knowledge noted that this is the first time that Guo Yanhong has appeared as "director of the medical emergency department of the NHSC".
This is also the first time that the department's "director" has appeared after the NHRC adjusted its internal organization and renamed the Health Emergency Response Office as the Medical Emergency Response Department.
In February of this year, the General Office of the Central Government and the General Office of the State Council issued the Notice on the Adjustment of the Functional Configuration, Internal Organizations and Staffing of the National Health Commission, announcing the adjustment of the functional configuration, internal organizations and staffing of the National Health Commission.
Among them, the Medical Affairs Bureau was renamed the Department of Medical Affairs, and the Health Emergency Response Office was renamed the Department of Medical Emergency Response, while the Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control and the Bureau of Comprehensive Supervision were abolished.
November 8, the National Health Commission official website of the internal organization adjustment update.
The official website shows that the main functions of the Department of Medical Emergency Response is to organize and coordinate the response to infectious disease outbreaks, undertake the construction of medical and health emergency response system, organize and guide the various types of emergencies of public **** events of medical treatment and emergency medical rescue work; the development of medical safety, medical supervision, blood collection and supply institutions and the construction of ethos, such as the industry management policies, standards and organization and implementation; the development of major diseases, chronic disease prevention and control management policies and norms and supervision and implementation. Prevention and control of major diseases, chronic diseases and management policies and norms and supervise the implementation.
Publicly available information shows that Guo Yanhong has been working in the health system for many years. She graduated from the Peking Union Medical College in 1989, and is the first undergraduate nursing graduate after the resumption of higher nursing education at the PUMC, and has also traveled to the University of Arizona in the United States to study nursing management.
Before this job change, she served as an ombudsman for the NHRC's Medical Affairs and Medical Bureau.
During the epidemic, she traveled to the local area several times as a member of the expert group and head of the working group, respectively.
In 2020, when Yunnan was facing a border epidemic prevention and control situation and the importation of epidemics from abroad, Guo Yanhong, as a member of the expert group of the National Health Commission going to Yunnan, repeatedly held talks and meetings with the local authorities, and gave her opinions and suggestions on the work of Yunnan's emergency response, full nucleic acid testing, personnel control, epidemiological investigations, medical treatment, information reporting and other aspects of the work.
In early September 2022, the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the epidemic prevention, control and disposal and the provincial command video conference was held, Guo Yanhong in the capacity of "new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control of Qinghai working group team leader", in the Golmud city branch video address. At the end of the month, she went to Heilongjiang in the capacity of "the State Council joint prevention and control mechanism Heilongjiang working group leader".
Guo Yanhong also frequently appears at conferences related to the epidemic.
On February 5, 2020, the National Health Commission held its first press conference on the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism. At that time, Guo Yanhong introduced information about the Diagnosis and Treatment Program for Pneumonia Infected by New Coronavirus at the conference.
Since then, Guo Yanhong has participated in several press conferences on the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism in her capacity as "inspector of the Medical Affairs Bureau of the NHRC," introducing prevention and control work and answering questions from reporters.
At the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism press conference on Nov. 7 this year, Guo answered questions about graded diagnosis and treatment, as well as the contradiction between supply and demand for nucleic acid testing, in her new capacity as "director of the medical emergency department of the NHMRC".
She made it clear that according to the optimization of nucleic acid testing in the 20 measures, in the event of a cluster outbreak, only when the source of infection and the chain of transmission are unclear, and when the community transmission and the bottom of the outbreak are unclear, will the regional full nucleic acid testing be carried out.
For nucleic acid testing for normalized outbreak prevention and control, Guo Yanhong said the NHSC requires localities to do a good job of monitoring the supply and demand of sampling points, pay close attention to the demand for mass testing, and expand the supply of sampling services by setting up additional sampling points and increasing sampling personnel for communities and places with higher population density and flow of people.
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