Translated by: Wu Xia

Biography

Tong Zhaohui, Respiratory Critical Expert, Deputy Dean of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Outstanding Alumni of Wuhan University (Seventh). From 1983 to 1988, he enrolled in the medical department of Wuhan University School of Medicine and obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine. In 2003, he was awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal, the National Advanced Worker of the Health System, and the Outstanding Communist Party Member of Beijing for his outstanding performance in SARS.

After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, as an expert of the Central Steering Group's treatment team, he arrived in Wuhan on January 18 and has been on the frontline of the epidemic, guiding and responsible for clinical treatment of critically ill patients in Wuhan.

On the evening of February 13, the Hubei Provincial Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters held the 23rd press conference to invite the heads of related hospitals to introduce the situation and answer questions from reporters on the progress of the new severe pneumonia in Wuhan.
Tong Zhaohui, as an expert from the Central Steering Group's medical treatment team and vice president of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, introduced that after coming to Wuhan as an expert group member of the National Health Commission, he weas mainly responsible for the critically ill patients of Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, and Wuhan University Zhongnan Hospital.

Tong Zhaohui said that when the expert group of the National Health Commission first arrived, they looked closely at the patients, optimized the treatment process and plan, and deployed corresponding specialties, such as doctors and nurses in critical care and respiratory critical care. Through this period, the current work is running smoothly and orderly, the critical case fatality rate has decreased, and the proportion of discharged patients has also increased.

Tong Zhaohui also said that after Tongji Hospital's Sino-French District and Xiehe Hospital Eastern District were designated as intensive care hospitals, the expert group of the National Health Commission mainly screened critical patients, and transferred them to three designated hospitals. They are also responsible for the training of the medical teams arriving in Wuhan, as well as the consultation and treatment of critically ill patients in related hospitals.

Tong Zhaohui (third from left) at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University