Pakistan, China armies hold video moot

By Masood Sattar Khan
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

The Chinese and Pakistani armies had in-depth discussion, shared experiences and strategies how to combat, prevent and control the new coronary pneumonia. Both sides shared anti-epidemic experiences and vowed to work together to fight against the epidemic.

Around 20 personnel from the military health departments of China and Pakistan, including experts in clinical, detection, prevention and control related fields, held video sharing sessions on the prevention and control of new coronary pneumonia in Beijing, Wuhan and Rawalpindi. 

“To begin with, China first threw light on the overall situation and experience of the Chinese army’s epidemic prevention and control work, new coronary pneumonia detection technology methods, main points and diagnosis besides treatment plans”, the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad disclosed, quoting the sources from Defense Ministry. 

It further elaborated that the two sides subsequently focused on the exchange of emergency command coordination, epidemic prevention and control, monitoring and detection, clinical treatment and other topics.

Combined with case analysis, the strategies for treatment of critical patients and infection control were discussed in depth. 

The Pakistan side thanked China for sharing the epidemic prevention and treatment experience for the first time, highly appreciating the Chinese military’s proactive efforts to participate in epidemic prevention and control. 

They congratulated China on achieving important achievements in combating the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. 

They expressed greatly admiration for the Chinese people and their leadership for successfully controlling the virus and sharing their experiences. 

It was the first video conference to be organized by the Chinese military to share experience in the prevention and control of new coronary pneumonia outbreaks with foreign military. 

In the next step, the Chinese military will uphold the concept of serving to build a community of human destiny, strengthen international cooperation in the fight against epidemics with the military of other countries concerned, in order to work together to combat the epidemic situation, maintain international health security and to continue their innovative contributions in order to ensure building better human health as well as a health community.