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SPECIAL EDITION: BATTLING COVID-19

THE WORKING VISIT OF THE MEDICAL EXPERT TEAM FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
OF CHINA TO MALAYSIA - AN EXCHANGE OF CLINICAL, LABORATORY AND PUBLIC
HEALTH EXPERIENCE ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC

From 18 April to 2 May 2020, an expert
team was sent by the Government
of China to Malaysia for two weeks to
exchange medical expertise in fighting
COVID-19.

The expert team consisted of 8
individuals (Prof Zhang Youping, Dr Liu
Tao, Dr Sun Jiufeng, Dr Yang Shifang, Dr
Luo Xiaodan and Dr Liu Xiangxin) led
by Professor Dr Li Jun, Chief Physician,
Professor, Postgraduate Supervisor of
the Integrated Chinese and Western
Emergency Medicine and Vice-
President of Guangdong Provincial
Hospital of Traditional Chinese
Medicine. They specialize in different A range of programmes were carried and universities was conducted in
fields such as pulmonology, intensive out during the working visit with the Putrajaya. This session was moderated
care, psychiatry, infectious diseases, main objective of sharing clinical by Dr Hishamshah Mohd Ibrahim,
data analysis, virology and traditional experiences in the management of Deputy Director-General (Research &
Chinese medicine (TCM). Some of COVID-19 between both countries. On Technical Support).
them had also participated in the fight 20 April 2020, a teleconference session
against COVID-19 in Hubei Province. with doctors from 26 MOH hospitals On the following day, a sharing session
between Hospital Sungai Buloh
healthcare team and the Chinese
Medical Expert Team was conducted
at Hospital Sungai Buloh. Various
topics were shared on the following
areas - infectious diseases, intensive
critical care, infection control, nursing,
psychiatric, emergency, obstetrics
and gynaecology and paediatrics. This
sharing session was moderated by
Dr Benedict Sim (Infectious Disease
Physician). In the afternoon, the expert
team visited the National Public Health
Laboratory for a session of information
exchange on functions and capabilities
of national public health laboratories in
managing COVID-19.

On the 22 April 2020, there was
a dialogue session with medical
department and intensive care unit
at Hospital Kuala Lumpur on the
challenges faced during management
of COVID-19 patients. It was followed
by a 3-hour discussion with virologists
and head of centres at the Institute for
Medical Research.

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