Premier Li Keqiang chaired a meeting on March 5, requiring efforts to implement measures of caring for medics, especially those who fight the novel coronavirus at the frontline, guaranteeing basic livings for people in need, and promoting work resumption in an orderly way.
The Premier is a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and also head of the leading group on novel coronavirus prevention and control.
Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy head of the leading group, also attended the meeting.
Reports on epidemic prevention and control and overseas situations were heard at the meeting. Adoption of different measures was urged for various regions accordingly, while still giving priority to Hubei province and Wuhan city.
According to those at the meeting, the utmost efforts should be made to save patients in severe condition, further reduce the death rate and raise the cure rate.
New cases should be immediately treated and revealed to the public in a timely manner, those at the meeting said, adding that any concealment or omission is not tolerated.
For Beijing and other key regions, communities, highways and ports should be strictly controlled, and venues, materials and personnel for emergency accidents should be prepared.
Those at the meeting also called for more communication with the World Health Organization and other relevant countries to strengthen cooperation on testing, diagnosis and treatment of the virus, as well as on developing drugs and vaccines.
Measures to better care for medics should be put in place, including the timely allocation of subsidies for temporary work, one-off consolation subsidies and allowances for hygiene and epidemic control. The allocation should be inclined to frontline medics who are directly involved in diagnosis, disease screening and testing, patient transfer and treatment, especially those who treat severe cases. The allocation standard should not be based on administrative ranks.
Rotating shifts should not impact salary, bonus and holidays of medics, and their diets and nutrition should be ensured. Report forms should be reduced if not necessary, to relieve the burdens on medics.
Those at the meeting required Hubei and Wuhan to coordinate epidemic control work with normal medical treatment. While spending major efforts on saving COVID-19 patients, urgent and consistent medical services, such as emergency treatment, childbirth, tumor treatment and hemodialysis, should be guaranteed.
Local authorities should ensure the basic living standard of people in poverty and give out allowances for people who live under basic standards, people in extreme poverty, orphans and the disabled, in full and on time.
Temporary aid will be provided to people living under the basic standards, members of lower-income families and registered impoverished people who have been confirmed as COVID-19 patients, as well as those who become impoverished because of the epidemic. Among them, aid should be enhanced to the families of those who died of the disease.
Migrants who were blocked from their destinations or encountered difficulties due to traffic control should get assistance, such as accommodation.
Residents in urban and rural areas who cannot go outside of their homes to work or do business as a result of the epidemic and encounter temporary difficulties can be covered as people under the basic living standard, if eligible.
For those who cannot take care of themselves, including the old, the young, the sick and the disabled, and their custodians and caregivers are quarantined, they should be given care in a timely manner.
Members of the leading group Ding Xuexiang, Huang Kunming, Cai Qi, Wang Yi, Xiao Jie and Zhao Kezhi also attended the meeting.
