Li Lanxuan: Two "bold" times in 17 years apart

April 19, 2003, Li Lanxuan, director of the Chinese Academy
Engineering, still remembers that day clearly. At that time, SARS epidemic is raging, the same day, three passengers arrived in Hangzhou by plane from abroad were diagnosed with SARS patients, Zhejiang first reported confirmed cases.
Then the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Health Department Li Lanxuan rushed to the ward, and the experts present to study the disease, in accordance with the infectious disease prevention and control law, she decisively issued three instructions: First, immediately transfer patients to professional infectious disease hospital isolation treatment;
china at that time, the awareness of infectious diseases and awareness of epidemic prevention is far less than today, these three instructions caused a lot of puzzles: is it an overreaction? Will it cause panic? Because the patient has taken a taxi, contact environment is complex, Li Lanxuan overnight to the Minister of Health, provincial committee
, municipal committee
phone to explain the situation, to win support. Overnight, all contacts were found and more than 1,000 people were isolated. One of the patients lived in the "on the water side" apartment, a building 76 families a total of 201 people were isolated, becoming SARS when Hangzhou's largest isolated community, and Chinese mainland's first large-scale isolation area.
Li Lanxuan knows that there will inevitably be different views when so many people are quarantined, "but I insist on doing so, because according to the relevant laws on infectious diseases, people infected with SARS, such as those who reach the level of Class A infectious diseases, can be isolated." "Results confirm her judgment, because the early source of infection is well controlled, zhejiang did not occur medical staff infection incidents, there is no "second-generation infection" cases, the relevant experience was later reported by the mainstream media.
17 years later, the outbreak of new crown pneumonia suddenly, experienced SARS Li Lanxuan well aware of the between isolation is important to stop the spread of the outbreak. Late on January 22nd, Li Lanxuan, who had already visited the first-line hospital and the disease control department in Wuhan, issued a proposal to the relevant leadership of the Health and Health Commission, proposing to "seal the city". The Lunar New Year is near, followed by large-scale population movements and unpredictable proliferation risks, "now the situation is very serious, Wuhan to seal the city, otherwise the consequences can not be imagined." Li Lanxuan said. This is the decisive moment, January 23 at 3 a.m., she received a reply, Wuhan will be closed on the same day.
Wuhan pressed the pause button, the only woman in China's infectious disease discipline
did not stop, the 73-year-old led the team once again "retrograde", rushed to the front line, into the battle to save lives.Li Lanxuan, director of the Chinese Academy of
, expert in infectious diseases, pioneer of artificial liver technology, and leader of key national infectious disease disciplines. He is currently the Chief Physician of the First Hospital affiliated with Zhejiang University, the Director of the National Key Laboratory for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, and a member of the High-level Expert Group of the National Health and Health Commission.