Our 89th Huang Yang student is a doctor fighting in the front line of Wuhan. When faced with the predicament of severe shortage of protective materials in the pre-epidemic period, she sent out a weak plea for help in the group, and this plea for help message made the nerves of her classmates tense up. So, overseas, domestic, every student started to look for protective materials as much as they could. Little did they realize how dire things would be. To be available and to meet medical specifications, price was no longer a factor for everyone. New Crown Pneumonia swept through a quiet spring season. However, the crowd is united, the moment of crisis to see true love.
At a time when everyone was at a loss to find medical supplies, Zhang Qi was steadfast in his step-by-step approach to dealing with suppliers from various sources, persevering, and always looking for protective materials. The chairman and vice-chairman of the 89th Preparatory Committee made a decision without hesitation to use the balance of the school's donations to donate as much as they could to Wuhan.
In the face of uncertainty about the price and transportation of protective materials, the donation was delayed for a long time. The first scheduled medical protective goggles have been canceled because they were identified as state-controlled material orders, and the organizing committee decided to donate medical masks according to the development of the epidemic. At that time, the mask market was basically a futures speculation, and payment was made before the goods were given. In the end, there were no goods even after payment, or the quality of the goods was not good enough to be used by the frontline doctors. Up to now, the materials we donated are as follows:
In this donation activity, because Zhang Qi students live in a closed district, unable to receive goods, Zhang Guojiang students took the initiative to help, to assist in the receipt and shipment of goods. There was no high-profile publicity, no elaborate photographs, but only a down-to-earth approach to the hard-earned supplies, carefully packed and packaged, and shipped to Wuhan. This is the responsibility of the 89 students of the Second Middle School.
At the same time, the 89th alumnus of the Second Middle School, Dong Xiaoguang, director of Qingdao Yishengjian Chinese and Western Medicine Combined Orthopaedic Injury Hospital, was also taking action. On the night of January 29th, Qingdao Yishengjian and Qingdao Sida Heart Hospital set up a medical team overnight - the first non-public hospital medical team in China to assist Wuhan - and left on January 30th to help Wuhan. After arriving in Wuhan, they learned that the front line was in short supply, so they urgently contacted the rear hospital, bought and donated six sets of respiratory equipment worth 400,000 RMB to Hanyang Hospital, as well as protective materials worth 80,000 RMB, to provide full protection for the front line of the fight against the "epidemic".
In the process of anti-epidemic treatment, members of the medical team and the local hospital medical staff together, achieved "diagnosed patients hospitalized zero deaths, fast cure discharged, zero infection of medical staff," the excellent results, the Hanyang Hospital and the Hanyang District Epidemic Prevention and Control Command of the highly evaluated. On the morning of March 25, the medical team successfully completed its 53-day mission to support Hanyang Hospital in combating the new coronary pneumonia and returned from Wuhan.
At the critical moment of epidemic prevention and control, Qingdao Yishengjian Chinese and Western Medicine Combined Orthopedic and Traumatic Injury Hospital issued 150,000 disposable medical masks valued at more than 400,000 yuan purchased from abroad to enterprises under the jurisdiction of the Beizhai District free of charge, with the focus of guaranteeing that the enterprises will resume their work and resume production.
On March 13, Yishengjian donated 20,000 masks to Haishan School, dedicating itself to safeguarding the lives of teachers and students, and demonstrating the love of medical ethics and social responsibility.
Under the same sky, Chinese Americans were preparing to celebrate the New Year as usual. When the first overseas help letter appeared on WeChat, everyone's attention was focused on Wuhan, China. There are more than three dozen American alumni from the 89th grade of No. 2 Middle School in more than a dozen states across the U.S. They are all concerned in different ways about the situation in China. We are all concerned about the domestic epidemic in different ways, contributing money to various Chinese associations and organizations to actively organize protective supplies for domestic hospitals.
Taking Zhang Rui's town of South Bay in Boston as an example, it has a population of less than 20,000, with about 300 Chinese. Since January 23rd, they have decided to postpone the Spring Festival celebrations and shift their focus to relief efforts in Wuhan. As a member of the Chinese Association, Zhang Rui has experienced the passion of overseas Chinese people who have a heart for their country.
On the morning of the 23rd, the call for donations was sent out, and in just one day, nearly 10,000 dollars were raised, and that night, the decision was made to donate to the hospitals in China, and to contact the Chinese associations around the country to consolidate the resources. From teleconferencing to division of labor; from appealing for donations to finding sources of goods; from docking with the General Charity Federation to finding suitable receiving hospitals; from keeping up with the adjustment of customs policies to identifying logistics and airlines, everyone was on American time during the day and on Chinese time at night, and all of us were working together.
With government procurement and large donations from major corporations, the overseas Chinese in Boston were able to ship the first batch of high-quality medical products to Shanghai Customs within a week through ThermoFisher, Inc. and ultimately delivered them to the designated hospitals in Hubei. All of the difficulties and confusion associated with overseas donations dissipated the moment the hospital received the shipment.
With the spread of the epidemic in the United States, the Chinese put self-help on the agenda, setting up a variety of working groups, connecting the town's public health, schools, police and fire, reminding villagers to pay attention to personal protection and hygiene. In early March, when the epidemic broke out in the United States, the Chinese Association actively called on the Chinese to donate food and medical supplies, and to utilize the Wuhan donation experience to start a new round of reverse donations.
When we first met the domestic volunteers on the Internet, the donations were divided into 100 masks per package and sent to the homes of the American volunteers; the parents of the foreign students in China sent 100 masks to the United States for each family, which was a great success; the overseas people who returned to their home countries shipped thousands of masks; the moms sewed all kinds of masks at home and gave them to the nurses to protect the hard-earned masks; the hospitals and regions that donated the food and medical supplies doubled their enthusiasm and supplies; and the hospitals and regions that donated the food and medical supplies doubled their enthusiasm and supplies. The hospitals and districts that donated the masks in the first place have doubled their enthusiasm and supplies to aid the overseas Chinese!
The Chinese organization in New Jersey, where Zhang Hui is a student, has also begun the work of donating protective equipment to hospitals, contributing what it can to the local Chinese and to the home where it lives.
At the same time in Canada, the epidemic is spreading and Ontario has entered a state of emergency, putting front-line health care workers in very high-risk situations. Many retired health care workers have been called back to the hospitals, abandoning their paychecks to join the front lines of the fight against the epidemic. Many doctors have issued a collective petition calling on the federal and provincial governments to address the shortage of medical resources. They want the government to provide more adequate medical supplies. These supplies include N95 masks, surgical masks, gloves, gown masks, goggles, and other hand sanitizers.
The virus has no borders, and neither do the hearts of the students. With the support of local Chinese parliamentarians, the Toronto Alumni Association of Qingdao University, where Hailei Ma is a student, initiated a donation campaign of more than 50 people to overcome the difficulties of Canada's strict qualification requirements for the donation of medical supplies, and to purchase N95 masks and disposable surgical masks and other medical protective materials urgently needed by local hospitals in the country, and to donate them to the North York Hospital, the senior citizens' home, and the people who are in need of them. The donation is still in progress.
The year of Gengzi, the small masks, revolving around the earth, carrying what a deep friendship and national sentiment. Although the material donated by each person is only a drop in the bucket, it is the convergence of love, confidence and hope. No winter is insurmountable and no spring will not come. We believe that all suffering will pass, and more light will shine in this sudden darkness. When the global economy is moving towards the era of ****similarity, the villagers of the global village can cross borders and work together to overcome the virus because of love! China go, the world go!