The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments jointly supplied 1.172 million oxygen meters to primary medical and health institutions

In view of the lack of blood oxygen testing equipment in rural grassroots clinics, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other departments recently jointly distributed free oxygen meters
to village-level clinics across the country.
At present, a total of 1.
172 million clinics have been supplied, meeting the basic configuration needs
of more than 600,000 village-level clinics across the country.

 

Gansu is the first batch of pilot areas for rural institutions to equip their oxygen meters, in the early morning of January 8, after 32,480 oxygen meters arrived in Lanzhou, the provincial capital, the local industry and information technology department organized manpower to distribute more than 30,000 devices to cities and prefectures on the same day, and are successively distributed to village-level clinics at the fastest speed
.
On the afternoon of the 8th, the reporter saw in the clinic of Yangjiazhuang Village, Chengguan Town, Yuzhong County, not far from Lanzhou City, that the finger oxygen meter that had just been distributed had begun to provide examination services
for the elderly in the village.

 

Zhang Chengqing, head of the clinic in Yangjiazhuang Village, Chengguan Town, Yuzhong County: We delivered oximeters when we needed them most, so that we could detect changes
in blood oxygen in the elderly at any time.

 

It is understood that each village clinic in Gansu will be issued with 2 oximeters this time to achieve full coverage
of blood oxygen testing equipment in rural clinics in the province.

 

In order to do a good job in the dynamic service of key groups of the new crown, ensure the basic configuration needs of finger-clip pulse oximeters in rural areas and other grassroots medical and health institutions, and prevent and reduce the occurrence of severe cases of new crown virus infection, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other departments recently issued a "notice" to sort out the needs of grassroots medical and health institutions across the country, and at the same time coordinate scheduling, seize production, implement the daily scheduling mechanism of oxygen meter production, and accelerate the expansion of production capacity and output
.
At present, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has organized 11 key production enterprises to supply 1.
172 million oxygen meters to 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in four batches, meeting the basic configuration needs
of 600,000 village-level clinics across the country.