#Header Anti-epidemic Science# At present, the epidemic prevention and control situation across the country is still grim. In Chenjia Community, Guandu District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, there is a “Silver-haired Volunteer Service Team” sticking to each community to help community workers complete order maintenance and other tasks. The average age of the service team members is over 60 years old. Actively participate in the anti-epidemic work and contribute to the community’s epidemic prevention and control.
“Silver Volunteer Service Team” helps epidemic prevention and control
“I am 65 years old this year, and we have spontaneously participated in the epidemic prevention and control work. A few days ago, community cadres posted a message in our residents’ WeChat group. I sent a message to remind everyone to strengthen epidemic prevention and control at home, and called on community residents to actively participate in community volunteer services. Several of our old buddies immediately signed up to be volunteers, and in this way, a silver-haired volunteer service team in our community was established. Now, there are seven or eight members over the age of 60.” Volunteer Chen Cai gushed about the details of the establishment of the service team, “The main job of the service team is to help the nucleic acid testing sites in the community maintain order, register resident information, Scan the code to measure body temperature, etc.”
Senior volunteers are assisting with nucleic acid testing
Yan Hua, 68, is a well-known “barefoot doctor” in the Chen family community. He has traveled to surrounding villages for 38 years. Most of the residents knew him. “I have been a doctor all my life, and my children have also inherited my mantle. They are all doctors. Doctors are benevolent, and epidemic prevention and control is the unshirkable responsibility of our medical staff. With my mobilization, my grandson also participated in the community epidemic. In the prevention and control volunteer service, three generations of our family fought the ‘epidemic’ together,” said Yan Hua.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the community “Silver Volunteer Service Team” has been involved in “practical combat” many times. Every time the residents’ WeChat group sends work requirements related to epidemic prevention and control, the seniors of the service team always respond positively to help Community grid-based prevention and control of the epidemic has contributed “silver-haired power”.