Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Saturday expressed gratitude and
appreciation for medical workers involved in treating severe acute
respiratory syndrome (
SARS)
patients on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central
Committee and State Council.
During a visit to You'an Hospital in Beijing Wen, also a member of
the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central
Committee, highly praised the medical workers for their selfless
dedication and their humanitarian spirit of "healing the wounded
and rescuing the dying."
Talking with the hospital's staff members and experts, Wen urged
medical workers to rely on scientific methods in preventing and
treating SARS, to probe all sorts of protective measures, to try to
find the cause of the disease and to publicize preventive knowledge
among people.
The premier expressed hope that health departments and medical
workers fully recognize their great responsibility in ensuring the
people's health and continue their efforts for the prevention and
treatment of the disease.
He
called on health departments to take necessary measures to protect
medical workers' health.
The premier was accompanied on the visit by Liu Qi, a Political
Bureau member of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the
Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPC, and Wu Yi, vice-premier and
member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
(Xinhua News Agency April 12, 2003)