CCTV news: On the front line of the fight against the epidemic, there is such a 36-year party veteran who has been dispatched to various parts of the country to treat patients with respiratory infections and critically ill patients. He left his presence in battles such as SARS” and Influenza A H5N1. After the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in 2020, he was the first batch of experts in respiratory and critical care disciplines to arrive in Wuhan. With his life-long responsibility and the sincerity of a great doctor, he has completed the tasks assigned by the party and the people again and again. Dedicated to protecting people’s life and health. He is Tong Zhaohui, a national outstanding Communist Party member, a “Beijing Model” figure in 2021, director of the Beijing Institute of Respiratory Diseases, and vice president of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital.
Early in the morning, Tong Zhaohui appeared in the hospital ward, outpatient clinics and ward rounds twice a week. The director of the department has persisted until now, and is unstoppable by the habit of staying by the patient’s bedside. He patiently inquired about the latest situation of the difficult patient, and leaned down to adjust the ventilator parameters for the patient. Tong Zhaohui, who graduated from college in 1988, came to Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University to work. At that time, the hospital had just established the respiratory department. Four years later, the first respiratory intensive care unit with air purification equipment in China was established. When SARS broke out in 2003, Tong Zhaohui took the initiative to ask Ying to fight the epidemic. At that time, there was no gene sequencing or nucleic acid detection technology in China. The diagnosis was mainly based on the patient’s symptoms, signs and some laboratory tests. The treatment was based on symptomatic treatment and life support technologies such as mechanical ventilation.
In 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak was sudden, Tong Zhaohui went retrograde and went to the front line as an expert of the Central Steering Group, and was the first to arrive in Wuhan. one of the experts. He often worked in the isolation ward for more than 10 hours in full armor, leading the medical staff to go all out to fight the disease. As the first batch of medical workers to arrive in Wuhan for support, Tong Zhaohui saw more and more young medical workers join the frontline of the fight against the epidemic. He was the first one in the medical team to propose the establishment of a temporary party branch. During the anti-epidemic period, each temporary party branch fully played its role as a fighting fortress and made important contributions to the staged victory in the fight against the epidemic.
After Wuhan resumed production and living order, Tong Zhaohui participated in several battles to annihilate the clustered epidemics in local areas, and turned to battles one after another. Harbin, Jilin, Qingdao, Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Tonghua and other places have fought against the epidemic for more than 250 consecutive days and traveled more than 20,000 kilometers. Missing his daughter to write a letter from home gave him great encouragement.
Tong Zhaohui has been engaged in respiratory and critical care medicine for more than 30 years, and Tong Zhaohui has trained more than 8,000 backbones of respiratory and critical care professionals for the country. He led the team to establish the most complete respiratory support system in China, and took the lead in applying ECMO to the treatment of patients with severe respiratory failure. At the same time, the team also took the lead in developing advanced technologies such as medical thoracoscopy, frozen lung biopsy, and bronchoscopy navigation, and innovatively applied autofluorescence imaging technology to medical thoracoscopy internationally.
On the 101st anniversary of the founding of the party, Tong Zhaohui, a 36-year-old party member, led a young doctor who joined the party to revisit the party The oath, practice the oath of joining the party with practical actions.