Jiang Rongmeng: The working rhythm is calculated in minutes. Severe treatment depends on teamwork in particular.
Cctv newsOn March 17th, 2020, Jiang Rongmeng inspected the intensive care units of four hospitals, which was the seventh round of inspection since the beginning of February.
"The deepest feeling is that severe treatment relies on teamwork, and it is a hard battle every day." Jiang Rongmeng said that most of the critically ill patients are old, have many basic diseases, have many complications, and are difficult to treat. Fortunately, at present, human resources and facilities are sufficient, and they are treated in an orderly manner.
As the chief physician of beijing ditan hospital Infection Center and the director of the Office of the National Infectious Disease Quality Control Center, Jiang Rongmeng went to Wuhan on January 9, and was one of the experts who had been working in Wuhan for the longest time.
Work rhythm has trained more than 3,600 people in minutes.
During his guiding work in Wuhan, Jiang Rongmeng went to various hospitals to guide the epidemic prevention and control work, and conducted professional knowledge training for medical teams from all over the country who supported Wuhan. His work rhythm is calculated in minutes, and he teaches six or seven scenes and runs six or seven training venues every day, training more than 3,600 people.
In order to build confidence in young people, he will say at the beginning of every training, "I came to Wuhan on January 9, didn’t I stand in front of you well?" Colleagues are very concerned about him, and he responded: "Don’t worry, we are the most professional. It is a great pity that I can’t accompany you in this special period, but it is of great significance. I also want to stay in Wuhan and do my best to curb the spread of the epidemic. "
When interviewed by reporters, he said: "It’s not so busy every day." Through the telephone receiver, Jiang Rongmeng’s answer is honest and frank, without turning, rarely using adjectives, mentioning the contents related to epidemic prevention, and automatically translating obscure medical terms into "vernacular".
Jiang Rongmeng described the medical treatment of the epidemic as follows: "The first stage was an encounter, and the epidemic began in mid-February; The second stage is positional warfare, from late February to early March; The third stage is a tough battle, from mid-March to the end. "
Is it possible to relax? Jiang Rongmeng’s consistent attitude is: from an epidemiological point of view, as long as the new cases are not zero, it means there is still a source of infection. "Early control measures have played an important role", but it is not yet time to relax. Early detection, early reporting, early isolation and early treatment need to be continued.
Everyone can’t avoid it, but he will go to every epidemic.
Jiang Rongmeng has long been accustomed to "chasing the epidemic", which is the unique calmness and calmness of an infectious disease expert who has seen too many infectious diseases. He has been engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases for 25 years, and has participated in the on-site treatment of major and sudden infectious diseases, infectious disease consultation, supervision and treatment of critically ill patients many times throughout the country.
He not only rushed to the front line in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, but also repeatedly charged on the battlefield of epidemic prevention and control of infectious diseases. He is a veritable "anti-epidemic person" chasing the epidemic.
In 2003, the SARS epidemic broke out, and he was the first doctor to enter the SARS ward. In November, 2014, he worked as the first batch of China public health emergency team members in Sierra Leone where Ebola was rampant for two months. Together with his teammates, he worked out training plans, training models and training materials, popularized Ebola prevention and control knowledge, changed the prevention and control concepts and behaviors of local community personnel, and laid the foundation for ensuring the successful completion of China’s training project on Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
In April 2017, Jiang Rongmeng went to Tibet to guide the first case of bird flu treatment in Tibet; Then he went to Pingliang, Gansu to guide the clinical treatment of Japanese encephalitis; At the end of the same year, I went to Changchun, Shenyang, Guangdong, Hunan and other places for supervision and training during the flu. In November 2017, he was selected by the National Health and Wellness Commission to go to Madagascar to participate in the prevention and treatment of plague. Appointed by the National Health and Wellness Commission in 2019, Jiang Rongmeng rushed to South Sudan to deal with Ebola and other epidemics.
According to statistics, after 2003, he accepted the assignment of the superior unit and went to more than 230 places around the world to participate in the epidemic disposal. Whenever accepting the task of fighting the epidemic, Jiang Rongmeng’s answer is always calm and firm. He often said: "It is the responsibility of infectious disease doctors to go to epidemic areas and face up to severe infectious diseases, and it is an ability to return safely."
However, he ran in the front line of prevention and control in COVID-19 and confronted the virus many times, but he said: "In mid-January, I felt that this was the most serious epidemic I have ever seen, and I was chilling about infectious diseases for the first time." By chill, he meant the possible consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic, which strengthened his determination to stick to the end of World War I..
"China, Europe and the United States, today’s technology to prevent and control infections is not a problem. For example, this time in novel coronavirus, it was amazing to get the virus and make detection reagents in ten days, which was not a little better than 17 years ago! " Jiang Rongmeng said that the biggest challenge is still the decision-making mechanism, and good decision-making comes from information transparency, cooperation and sharing.
The change of ideas is not a day’s work.
"Doctors, no matter which major they are engaged in, should have the thinking from treating individuals to paying attention to groups." Rich experience in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases has also enabled him to focus on specialized treatment from the very beginning to expand his vision to public health.
In dealing with the epidemic situation again and again, Jiang Rongmeng realized that it is impossible to defeat infectious diseases by treating one patient after another, which belongs to the end in the whole chain of diseases. In his view, infectious diseases are not like chronic diseases such as hypertension. If prevention is not done from the source, no matter how many beds and medical staff can cope. He concluded that "hand hygiene is always the most important way to prevent respiratory infectious diseases or infectious diseases spread by contact".
Because of this, during the epidemic period, he will do popular science propaganda as long as he has the energy, and he has issued "Very Important Guidelines for Treating Patients with Fever and Cough", "Very Important Points for Hospital Infection Control of Pneumonia Infected in novel coronavirus" and "How to Prevent Pneumonia Infected in novel coronavirus"? "and other popular science articles, and for a number of media platforms to review novel coronavirus popular science articles, entries, protective measures video, so that more people can understand the correct epidemic prevention knowledge and epidemic prevention measures.
In a speech, Jiang Rongmeng shared some thoughts about infectious diseases. He said, "Infectious diseases still leave us a lot of thoughts. Infectious diseases have never left humans for a day, because the only infectious disease we have eliminated so far is smallpox. "
"So how do we control infectious diseases? I wrote a diary in West Africa — — The change of ideas was not built in a day. Therefore, in order to control infectious diseases, if our government and our people can learn more about infectious diseases and change some concepts and behaviors that lead to their spread, they can control infectious diseases, even infectious diseases like Ebola and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, which are not so terrible. "
In the face of the COVID-19 epidemic, the same is true. Some ideas and behaviors that lead to the spread are changed, so that the virus can not be exploited, and infectious diseases can not be transmitted.
When the sun rises, spring grass grows in Seoul. Jiang Rongmeng, who is busy inspecting the hospital, firmly believes as always: the fight against epidemic will win, and the dawn is ahead. (Text/Dong Shuyun)