WUHAN — Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan has reiterated the need to make all-out efforts to save COVID-19 patients in Central China's Hubei province, stressing scientific and precise treatment.

Leading a central government group to guide the epidemic control work in Hubei, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, Sun, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited a hospital in the provincial capital of Wuhan for inspection and guidance on March 13.

At the hospital, Sun learned about the treatment of COVID-19 patients in several hospitals in Wuhan and other cities including Xiaogan, Huangshi and Huanggang through video connections.

Sun called for efforts to transfer severe and critical patients to hospitals with better medical resources, optimize treatment schemes and strengthen technical guidance and support for cities other than Wuhan.

Sun also emphasized multidisciplinary support and the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine in the examination and treatment of patients.

The treatment of mild cases at all hospitals should be assessed to prevent them from developing into severe cases and increase the cure rate, she said.

Sun said adjustments should be made to the medical forces in accordance with the development of epidemic prevention and control to allow some designated hospitals for COVID-19 patients to gradually resume normal operations.