Saturday, January 24, 2009

Eight northern provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) plague defense held an enlarged meeting in Beijing

[I remember this. I just came upon it again....and I thought I would post it, in case you missed it the first time around. Note the Date..December 11th. This is from the Ministry of Health Website]

December 11, 2008 , Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi eight northern provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) plague zone enlarged in Beijing. Health Minister Chen Zhu and Vice Mayor of Beijing Municipal People's Government丁向阳also attended the meeting. Chen Zhu, Minister made a presentation entitled "summing up the past to deal with the challenges to achieve joint prevention and control of plague scientific development" an important speech. The theme of the conference is a comprehensive summary of the original seven northern provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) plague defense health security since the founding of the Olympic plague prevention and control work, officially launched the eight northern provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) plague joint working mechanism, scientific analysis of the current national anti-plague control the situation, a systematic assessment of a "national plague" Eleventh Five-Year Plan "(2006-2010)" medium-term implementation of a period in the future deployment of plague prevention and control work. Emergency Office of the State Council, the State Council departments concerned, the eight northern provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) People's Government and the health department (bureau), Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang, Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces (autonomous regions) Health Department, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and related provinces in disease prevention and control institutions (including plague prevention and control bodies) on behalf of a total of about 120 people to attend the meeting.
Chen Zhu, the Minister stressed that the CPC Central Committee and State Council attaches great importance to plague prevention and control work. At all levels throughout the health sector, especially the northern provinces and cities in eight health departments should fully understand the danger of plague and unexpected epidemic, from practicing the "people-oriented" a high degree of scientific development concept, to the people's health and life safety responsible for sustainable development on the national economy and responsible attitude, seize the current deepening of the medical and health system opportunity to further strengthen our plague prevention and control work for the realization of the health of China's grand goal of 2020 for building a socialist harmonious society contributions.
Chen Zhu, the Minister also pointed out that the health sector at all levels, especially in the eight northern provinces and cities to strengthen the work of the health sector leadership, strengthen the awareness of plague prevention and control; a systematic summary of the original seven northern provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) plague defense work experience, improve the north eight provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) joint working mechanism plague; organizations implement "national plague prevention and control," Eleventh Five-Year Plan "" implementation, the overall advancement of plague prevention and control of emergency work; improve the current plague prevention and control strategies, the scientific work to upgrade the level of plague prevention and control of emergency ; the strengthening of plague prevention and control of the basic work, fast and effective disposal of plague and other public health emergencies.
The meeting also discussed the "eight northern provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) plague joint program of work (2009-2012)" concrete implementation of the measures considered in 2009 the eight northern provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) plague the work of joint prevention and control points to study the 2009 National plague prevention and control work.

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