Delivery of 170,000 Bottles of Azvudine Tablets During Spring Festival to Help Rural Areas Weather the Epidemic - Yahoo Finance

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, /PRNewswire/ -- In effect to the corruption highest play of COVID-19 successful agrarian areas that whitethorn beryllium brought astir by radical returning location during Chinese New Year, Fosun Foundation announced connected 9 January 2023 the practice with Fosun Pharma and Genuine Biotech to donate RMB100 million worthy of Azvudine tablets, the oral medicine for COVID-19, helping the grassroots to upwind the epidemic. As of 29 January 2023, nether the run of "A Healthy Winter Action", a full of 173,200 bottles of Azvudine tablets person been donated to 116 counties successful 19 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, including Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Hainan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Heilongjiang. Azvudine tablets, the archetypal domestically developed tiny molecule medicine for COVID-19 has helped astatine slightest 150,000 villagers get done the epidemic much safely, astir of whom were seniors implicit 65.

Since its inception, "A Healthy Winter Action" has faced 2 large challenges. First, however to present materials to the grassroots during the peak-travel play of Spring Festival? Second, however to accurately administer medicines to the villagers who are successful request of medicine?

While negotiating practice with SF Express, Fosun Foundation urgently recruited astir a 100 worker volunteers wrong Fosun and its subsidiaries. Coordinating with their plan of returning location during the Spring Festival, the volunteers personally delivered medicine to the donated counties.

In summation to Fosun worker volunteers, SF Express besides afloat supported the donation. The transportation of medicine did not halt during the Spring Festival. Guo Shuai, Assistant Secretary-General and Project Director of Fosun Foundation, stayed successful the bureau passim the Spring Festival to marque definite that the materials are dispatched to SF Express's transshipment warehouse immediately, and past delivered by air.

How to marque definite that the astir urgently needed villagers tin person medicine successful time? According to Ning Guang, Consultant of the COVID-19 Prevention and Control Expert Committee of the Rural Doctors Program and President of Ruijin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, "Rural doctors indispensable person medicine successful their hands, and the grassroots radical indispensable person medicine successful time". Fosun Foundation archetypal covered the 72 counties successful the Rural Doctors Program which has been moving for 5 years, and delivered arsenic overmuch medicine arsenic imaginable to agrarian doctors done the wellness section earlier the Spring Festival.

On 16 January, the archetypal batch of 600 bottles of Azvudine tablets donated to Lancang County, Yunnan Province was delivered by Zhao Zhong, a nonmigratory subordinate of the Rural Doctors Program, to the township infirmary of Lancang County, and past to the colony clinics. Zhong Liping, a agrarian doc successful Yanyin Village, Sakai Township, received a connection from villager Zhong Asuo connected the greeting of the 5th time of the Chinese New Year, "Thank you for the Azvudine tablets sent by Fosun Foundation earlier Chinese New Year. My begetter felt overmuch amended the adjacent time aft taking the medicine." Before taking Azvudine tablets, Zhong Asuo's 87-year-old begetter had fever, cough and different symptoms. When she learned that Fosun Foundation had donated to Lancang County, Zhong Liping instantly thought of distributing medicine to the elderly. Zhong Liping said, "It is this benignant of feedback that makes maine recognize the value of being a agrarian doctor."

In bid to amended the diagnostic skills of agrarian doctors, Fosun Foundation and Shanghai Guangci Translational Medical Research Foundation jointly established an adept committee led by Chen Erzhen, Vice President of Ruijin Hospital. Medical experts from much than 20 provinces provided targeted grooming for agrarian doctors successful the signifier of recorded courses and Q&A sessions. Relevant grooming has been launched connected the app of Fosun Health and People's Good Doctor. So far, much than 15,000 agrarian doctors person received the grooming online. On 13 January, with the enactment of the Guizhou Provincial Health Commission and Fosun Foundation, Zhang Wenhong, a subordinate of the adept committee, Director of the National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases, and Professor of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, conducted a peculiar online grooming for agrarian doctors successful Guizhou.

Along with the medicine, 37 attraction packages worthy RMB150,000 were sent to the grassroots, which contained aesculapian supplies that were successful abbreviated proviso astatine the grassroots, specified arsenic oximeters, oxygen concentrators, look masks, and nitrile gloves. These packages were donated by nationalist payment partners including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the New Social Stratum "New Philanthropy Program" nether the United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee, Shanghai Pudong Development (Group) Co., Ltd., Taiping Pension Co., Ltd., YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation, Pingdingshan Volunteers Association, Chengdu Charity Federation, S.F. Express Group (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Yeswood, Wuxi Qicheng Industrial Co., Ltd., Institute of Innovations, Tongxinhui, Xinjiang Juchen Law Firm, Jiangsu No. 33 Business Management Co., Ltd., Wuxi Yushou Medical Appliances Co., Ltd., Shanghai Tuyue Business Advisory Co., Ltd., Power Construction Corporation of China, and Shanghai Charity Foundation Xuhui District Representative Office Ningguo Temple 456 Cultural Special Fund, and benevolent enterprises of ONE Fosun specified arsenic Shede Spirits, Jinhui Liquor, Hainan Mining, and Golte.

In addition, successful bid to fortify the integer capableness of superior healthcare institutions, Shanghai Aitrox Technology Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Fosun, donated integer imaging systems, integer ultrasound systems and refined cognition services to superior township hospitals, covering 10 township hospitals by the extremity of April this year, with the archetypal batch of donations amounting to astir RMB5 million.

On 28 January 2023, the archetypal time of work, the task squad resumed regular meetings doubly a day. At the regular gathering that night, Chen Qiyu, Co-CEO of Fosun International, said, "We person completed fractional of the RMB100 million medicine donation, and reached 2/3 of the extremity of donating to 180 counties. We indispensable proceed to contention against the microorganism and hole for the adjacent question of corruption peaks. For example, we indispensable screen astatine slightest different 20 counties successful the Tibet Autonomous Region; we indispensable absorption connected protecting the aged successful cities beneath the 3rd tier and successful agrarian nursing homes. The donation of astir 400,000 bottles of Azvudine tablets worthy RMB100 million jointly initiated by Fosun and Genuine Biotech has been considered to beryllium the largest nationalist payment donation of medicine successful caller years. We anticipation play its owed relation successful the revitalization of Chinese agrarian areas and the operation of a steadfast China."