Vice-President Zeng Qinghong visited the Sino-Japanese Friendship
Hospital in Beijing on Wednesday, praising medical staff who are
working at the front-line of the fight against SARS and urging that
Party members on the medical staff play a leading role in the
campaign.
As
an elite general hospital in Beijing, the Sino-Japanese Friendship
Hospital was recently designated as a SARS patient reception
hospital.
Zeng shook hands with the hospital's doctors and nurses after
inspecting its SARS diagnosis and treatment wards and suspected
SARS carrier observation ward.
He
expressed his gratitude for the medical staff's great contribution
in fighting SARS.
Zeng also visited the Heping Jiayuan resident community in Beijing
the same day, saying that the epidemic situation in Beijing was
still severe. Everyone was watching the SARS "war" in Beijing
closely, and would be greatly reassured when Beijing's SARS
epidemic situation was controlled.
No
SARS infection cases were spotted in the immediately surrounding
community, but Zeng asked that more stringent prevention measures
be taken there.
(Xinhua News Agency April 30, 2003)