The 19th press conference on epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19, Henan Province.

Press conference video

　　The Information Office of Henan Provincial Government held the 19th press conference on the topic of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19, Henan Province at 10: 00 on February 28th, 2020.

　　Publish content: release the experience and practice of strict poverty alleviation standards and high-quality poverty alleviation in 14 poverty-stricken counties in Henan Province and the outstanding achievements made by our province in tackling poverty; Introduce our province’s active response to the impact of the epidemic, strengthen the measures to fight poverty, and ensure that we can win the fight against poverty in an all-round way at the end of this year, and answer questions from reporters.

　　Publisher：

　　Shi Bingrui, Party Secretary and Director of Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office

　　Zhang Ruoshi, deputy head of the comprehensive group of the provincial epidemic prevention and control headquarters office, member of the party group and deputy director of the provincial health and wellness committee.

　　Li Changfa, member and deputy director of the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office.

　　Zhen Li, member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Provincial People’s Social Welfare Department

　　Gao Zhanrong, Party Member and Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Finance

　　He Songhao, Party Member and Deputy Director of Provincial Department of Commerce

　　Wang Qinghua, Secretary of Lushi County Committee of CPC.

　　[News report]

　　The 19th press conference of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control work was held.　

　　Block the "root of disease" and pull out the "poor root"

　　On February 28th, the Information Office of the provincial government held the 19th press conference on epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19. Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office, Provincial Health and Health Commission, Provincial People’s Social Welfare Department, Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Department of Commerce and other departments, as well as the person in charge of Lushi County, gave a briefing on the current epidemic prevention and control and tackling poverty, and answered questions from reporters.

　　The intensity of poverty alleviation has not diminished.

　　At the press conference, Shi Bingrui, director of the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office, read out the notice of the provincial government and approved 14 poverty-stricken counties to take off their hats. Since then, there have been no poverty-stricken counties in our province. "But there are still 350,000 poor people and 52 poor villages in our province that have not been lifted out of poverty." Shi Bingrui said.

　　In response to the epidemic, our province has adopted the measures of "two priorities, one acceleration and one guarantee" to help get rid of poverty. "Two Priorities" means giving priority to the labor force of poor families and giving priority to the resumption of production and work of enterprises with poverty; "One acceleration" means accelerating the construction of poverty alleviation projects and ensuring that all poverty alleviation projects start construction in March; "One guarantee" means strengthening policy support and guarantee.

　　"This year, the funds used by governments at all levels for poverty alleviation will only increase. At the beginning of this year, the provincial finance budgeted 2.59 billion yuan for special poverty alleviation funds, an increase of 10% over the budget at the beginning of last year. " Gao Zhanrong, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Finance, said.

　　"We will make overall plans to prevent and control the epidemic situation and tackle poverty, so that the task of tackling poverty will remain unchanged, the standards will not drop, and the intensity will not decrease. For counties, villages and farmers who have already got rid of poverty, we will maintain the continuity of policies, so that investment will not decrease, and there will be many projects. Policies will remain unchanged and assistance will not be withdrawn to ensure high-quality completion of this year’s task of tackling poverty." Shi Bingrui said.

　　Healthy poverty alleviation gnaws hard bones

　　Zhang Ruoshi, deputy director of the Provincial Health and Health Commission, reported that on February 27th, there were no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Henan Province, and 41 new cases were discharged.

　　"The Provincial Health and Health Commission insists on coordinating the prevention and control of epidemic situation and health poverty alleviation, blocking the’ root cause’, pulling out the’ poor root’, and laying down the hard bones of health poverty alleviation, and never letting the disease become a roadblock for poverty alleviation." Zhang Ruoshi said that the Provincial Health and Health Commission compared the patients diagnosed in COVID-19 with the poor people through the information system to ensure that the poor people can get timely and effective treatment for COVID-19. On the premise of preventing and controlling the epidemic, meet the basic medical needs of the poor; Give timely and effective medical treatment to the poor patients with acute and critical diseases.

　　Our province actively carries out the signing service of family doctors for the poor. For those who can’t carry out contracted services at home due to epidemic prevention and control, telephone and video follow-up should be taken to strengthen the daily health management of poor patients with chronic diseases. Throughout our province, rural loudspeakers, propaganda slogans and other forms were used to publicize the epidemic situation and epidemic prevention knowledge, educate and guide poor people to enhance their health awareness, improve their health literacy and self-protection ability, prevent COVID-19 from being infected, and curb poverty and return to poverty due to illness from the source.

　　Accurate assistance and priority employment

　　Our province has issued policies and set up special classes to strengthen employment assistance for poor families.

　　"Through the method of’ one-on-one’ precise assistance, we will achieve’ seven priorities’ and make every effort to eliminate the impact of the epidemic on the employment and income increase of poor families." Zhen Li, deputy director of the Provincial People’s Social Welfare Department, said that the "seven priorities" are giving priority to organizing local employment nearby, organizing migrant workers’ transportation, giving priority to supporting entrepreneurs returning home, giving priority to resettling the "three haves", giving priority to the construction of poverty-stricken projects, giving priority to supporting poverty-stricken industries and giving priority to job training. As of February 27th, among the 1,818,661 poor family laborers with employability and desire, 1,079,670 have been employed.

　　During the epidemic prevention and control period, in order to reduce the impact on poverty alleviation and income increase, the commercial department of our province issued a total of 3900 passes to enterprises, making every effort to unblock the channels of agricultural products transportation and marketing. "As of February 26, among the 244 agricultural approval and farmers’ markets in the province, 169 have resumed business." He Songhao, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Commerce, said.

　　"Getting rid of poverty is a new starting point for Lushi County’s work. In the future, we will take the overall situation of the county’s work with poverty alleviation, lay a solid foundation for poverty alleviation, and hand in a satisfactory answer to the party and the people." At the press conference, Wang Qinghua, secretary of Lushi County Party Committee, said. (Henan Daily reporter Gao Changling)