CHENGDU — A Chinese hospital in Southwest China's Sichuan province shared its COVID-19 treatment experience via a video conference with medical institutions from Italy and Spain on April 14.

The conference was jointly launched by the China Health Promotion Foundation and West China Hospital of Sichuan University.

The Italian and Spanish medical experts introduced the epidemic prevention situation in their own countries during the conference.

Tang Hong, director of the center for infectious diseases of the hospital, Luo Fengming, deputy director of the department of pulmonary and critical care medicine of the hospital, who assisted Wuhan in the battle against COVID-19 for 57 days, and other experts introduced the treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia and shared their experience in ward standards, treatment procedures for critically ill patients and medical staff protection, among other fields.

Finally, the experts discussed the critical cases of COVID-19 in Italy and Spain, answered questions and provided relevant suggestions.

The video conference has helped provide solutions to the practical problems in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 of the two countries and is helpful in promoting scientific cooperation between China and other countries in the fight against the epidemic.