Source: Shijingshan District Health Commission
"The number of covid-19 patients is zero in Shijingshan District!" After hearing the news, Feng Xingzhong, the vice director of Yuquan Hospital of Tsinghua University, smiled. At the beginning of this year, the covid-19 emerged and spread rapidly across the country. Shijingshan District Health Commission immediately established a team of experts of TCM prevention and treatment according to the overall deployment of Beijing Administration of TCM and the work arrangement of Shijingshan District Health Commission. Served as the team leader shouldering heavy responsibilities, Director Feng threw himself into the fight against the epidemic without hesitation, led the team to protect the health of local residents, and fulfilled the responsibility of an old party member.
With many things to deal with for the work epidemic prevention, Feng led the team to the medical institutions in Shijingshan District to supervise the work of epidemic prevention, using the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine to strengthen the protection of vulnerable groups. He provided the TCM prescription for covid-19 close contacts at the medical observation points and guided the community health service institutions to provide TCM preventive drinks for the personnel returning to Beijing from other places and the close contacts in the community. He went to local companies to conduct TCM health guidance, proposed suggestions to improve their weak links in the epidemic containment, and answered questions in the work of epidemic prevention and control. In addition to the offline work, Feng also constantly recorded online courses, carried out all-media popular science on epidemic prevention, answered questions raised by residents about covid-19, guided community residents to do a good job in home protection, and forwarded his popular-science training courseware "Vision on Prevention and Control of 'Plague' with Traditional Chinese Medicine" through the Internet.
As a senior expert of Traditional Chinese medicine, he has applied his knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine to the prevention and control of the epidemic. He thought it was his modest contribution to fighting against the epidemic. Based on his many years of clinical experience, he proposed the guiding role of "three-factor measures" in the prevention and treatment of covid-19 in northern China according to the characteristics of the epidemic, combined with seasonal climate, geographical environment and other factors.
During the Spring Festival, although the weather of Beijing was colder than that in Wuhan, indoor heating conditions were available. The diet in winter tended to be fat, sweet and thick. It was easy to breed damp and hot. While the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor was large, the body with internal heat was easy to be infected by pathogenic factors when going out. Yin was easy to be hurt from thermalization and the body would show the pathological characteristics of "depression, humidity, heat and poison". During the epidemic outbreak, Feng went to the designated hospitals of the Shijingshan District to diagnose the covid-19 patients with traditional Chinese medicine, provided specific treatment based on syndrome differentiation, implement TCM diagnosis and treatment scheme for each confirmed and suspected covid-19 case. He achieved the individualized treatment based on TCM syndrome differentiation for suspected and confirmed COVID-19 cases in Shijingshan District. Patients treated with TCM after re-examination had been all improved, and finally cured and discharged. The district had gained the phased results in epidemic prevention and control.
Post-discharge rehabilitation is as important as prevention and control. Fear and anxiety are psychological problems faced by most patients. Feng patiently directed and helped patients to build up their confidence, made customized recovery drink for each discharged patient, conducted individualized TCM rehabilitation management to promot the physical and mental rehabilitation of patients.
Xinglin (refers to TCM professionals) bear moral responsibility and white clothes rush forward. Vice Director Feng Xingzhong, the director in charge of medical business, has been seen in the hospital every day since the outbreak. On the eve of Spring Festival, he was ready to go home as usual to see his elderly parents in rural areas. But the epidemic was the order! He cancelled his trip back to his hometown and did not attend his nephew's wedding during the Spring Festival as his parents wished, which became his parents' regret. According to the deployment of Tsinghua University and Shijingshan District Health Commission, on the eve of the lunar new year, he directed and adjusted the fever clinic of the hospital, mobilized the medical staff to give up their holidays and return to the hospital to go into the battle. After visiting the medical staff on duty on the eve of Spring Festival, he came to the hospital early on the first day of the New Year, accompanying the Health Commission to guide the work of fever clinic and the overall epidemic prevention and control in the hospital. Since then, Feng has not left his post for a single day. At the critical moment of the epidemic's introduction into Beijing, his father in his rural hometown accidentally fell and fractured while his old mother suffered from depression and anxiety and was weak in bed, Vice Director Feng Xingzhong can only let his brother and sister take care of their parents, but he himself bore the heart of suffering that he sacrificed his own family for collective benefits, still fighting in the front line of the epidemic prevention and control. At present, China's "battle against the epidemic" has achieved initial success, but the global epidemic is still serious. How to prevent and prevent the "resurgence" of the epidemic remains the main task. "We must not relax our vigilance," Feng said, "Safeguarding people's health and safety remains my top priority."
