Chinese medics share infection treatment experience online

Chinese medical experts are glad to share their experiences on fighting against novel coronavirus pneumonia with the international community and make collective efforts to control the plague, an expert from Central China's Hubei province said on Tuesday.

"There is a Chinese saying that we should give a plum in return for a peach. In the fight against the COVID-19, we are happy to share what we've learned to help those countries that had extended a helping hand," said Hu Yu, president of Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

As of Tuesday, Union Hospital in Wuhan, the hardest-hit city in the epidemic on the Chinese mainland, has held 18 teleconferences with medical personnel from 32 countries, Hu said at a press conference.

The hospital is one of the city's several major hospitals responsible for treating COVID-19 patients. Since the outbreak of the disease early this year, it has treated more than 5,000 infected patients and managed two mobile cabin hospitals.

In recent weeks, Hu said the hospital has organized five teleconferences with a German medical college that had assisted Wuhan in combating the disease, sharing various experiences from the treatment of severe cases to the control of infections without symptoms.

Such teleconferences also benefited medical teams from the United States, and some European and African countries, as well as other countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, Hu said.

"Those conferences were broadcast live online, which attracted more than 15,000 viewers," he said, adding that another 12 similar teleconferences will be held soon.

"There are no national boundaries in the fight against the virus. We are living in a community with a shared future of mankind. Only with joint efforts from all of us, the epidemic will be controlled sooner and better," he said.