The Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has awarded the title of "National Excellent Communist Party Member" to four medical workers who died treating SARS patients.
They are Deng Lianxian and Ye Xin, doctor and charge nurse, respectively, in south China's Guangdong Province, Liang Shikui, a doctor in north China's Shanxi Province, and Li Xiaohong, a doctorate a People's Armed Police hospital in Beijing.
The Organization Department urged all CPC members to learn from the four doctors and nurse and play an exemplary role in the nationwide campaign against SARS.
It also said that on the eve of July 1, the birthday of the CPC, a number of the CPC grass-roots organizations and Party members would receive awards for their outstanding achievements and contribution to the anti-SARS drive.
(Xinhua News Agency May 2, 2003)
