African Nationhood

"Minister Xia Yi, please tell me."

Xia Yi stood up after hearing this, walked slowly to the podium, and opened the folder in her hand.

Xia Yi first turned around and nodded to Chairman Shi and Prime Minister Ouyang Geng, then opened the folder she carried with her.

“The development of our department in the past few years can be said to be stable and improving. The local smallpox vaccine coverage rate of 99% will basically remain unchanged, while the smallpox vaccine coverage rate in overseas territories has increased to 68%.

Globally, South China has the largest investment in public health and the highest public vaccination coverage. "

Xia Yi's words are by no means bragging. It means that Shi Jintang, a time traveler, attaches great importance to public medical care and promotes the concept of hygiene.

After new immigrants arrive, the control is the strictest within one month after entering the country, and they must be whipped to establish the concept of "cleanliness and hygiene" in the immigrants.

Let them get used to it under strict supervision and gradually develop good hygiene habits.

Now it seems that Nanhua's massive investment has paid off. Since the establishment of Nanhua, there has never been a large-scale disease outbreak in Nanhua (except for tsetse flies).

Moreover, Nanhua is also promoting public medical care in disguise, providing free medical care to soldiers and civil servants.

These investments are huge. If Nanhua's pharmaceuticals had not been subsidized by the sales of self-developed pharmaceuticals, Nanhua's pharmaceutical system would have collapsed long ago.

Nanhua's pharmaceutical department has been burdened with heavy burdens in recent years.

"Our department has been engaged in public epidemic prevention over the years. After painstaking research, our department has discovered a new prevention and control strategy. If a group does not suffer from a certain infectious disease within a certain time limit, then we can assume that the source of the disease is Already wiped out by us.

So as long as no new source of infection is added, the disease cannot continue to occur. In other words, without a source of infection, the disease cannot arise out of thin air.

Therefore, we only need to isolate the input of infectious sources to prevent and control the re-infection and complications of this type of disease.

In this way, the disease can be completely eliminated in an area, thus saving a lot of medical resources.

Even if a small-scale disease spread occurs, it is only necessary to adopt the 'precision vaccination + isolation' model to quickly eliminate severe infectious diseases.

Especially smallpox, a contagious disease that only causes death in humans. "

(In the original time and space, when smallpox was eradicated globally in 1977, the strategy of “controlling input sources + isolating infection routes” was adopted.)
When he heard this method, Shi Jintang was also a little surprised, "Is there any actual successful case for this strategy?"

Xia Yi nodded, "Yes, when the plague broke out in Northern Manchuria, our colleagues in the medical department adopted this strategy and quickly controlled the outbreak.

When they concluded afterwards, they reported this prevention and control strategy to the local area.

We continued to experiment with this prevention and control strategy in other overseas territories and found that the success rate was 100%. "

Shi Jintang smiled and concluded: “In other words, our Ministry of Medicine and Health has created a new type of public epidemic prevention theory.

And if this theory is successful, then the people who created this theory have made great contributions and deserve awards. "

Xia Yi smiled sheepishly, "Chairman, your guidance is good. You gave us the opportunity to learn and taught us new hygiene concepts. In total, you have the greatest credit."

Shi Jintang chuckled, "Mr. Xia is very good at flattering you!"

Everyone present at the meeting laughed, but after laughing, everyone was full of emotion. If it weren't for Chairman Shi, they would probably be either digging in the mud pit, or servile at the feet of foreign adults and powerful people. Live a life of your own.

Shi Jintang waited until everyone had laughed before speaking seriously.

“Individuals are insignificant, and I cannot build a country by myself, so the credit belongs to everyone.

Only by working together can we build our country better, so we must reward those who deserve it. "

Xia Yi nodded, "Well, you are right, we have rewarded those who participated in theoretical innovation within the medical system.

We also plan to publish their discovery around the world so that countries around the world can better prevent and treat diseases. "This spirit is very Bethune, but now is not the time to let those white Europeans continue to die.

"Let's not rush this matter now. Let's wait until our medical and health system is truly formed before we do these things. For now, we should focus our energy on the local area."

Xia Yi has always been convinced by Chairman Shi. She nodded directly, "Okay, Chairman."

After that, she continued to speak.

“With the new epidemic prevention strategy, we have made great improvements in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases such as diphtheria, yellow fever and typhus.

Costs of prevention and control have fallen significantly both at home and in the overseas territories, and our department is now beginning to shift its focus on infectious diseases to tuberculosis and polio.

One of these two diseases causes widespread harm and is difficult to cure, while polio affects a large number of teenagers and children.

The onset process of poliomyelitis is too subtle, and young children cannot express it effectively, so once it develops, it is very contagious.

Our department decided to conquer these two spreading diseases. "

Poliomyelitis is poliomyelitis. The medical department has long established a project, but no results have been achieved.

This is related to the development of vaccine theory and the frequency of disease.

Since the establishment of Nanhua, the early immigrants were mainly young adults, and most of the children were around ten years old. The incidence of this infectious disease was not high.

In addition, the energy of the medical department has been diverted by administrative orders to the birth rate of newborns and the rate of dystocia among pregnant women, resulting in the fact that research on this disease has not received attention.

Nowadays, the number of newborns in Nanhua is constantly expanding every year, and the incidence of polio has also begun to increase year by year.

Today, the incidence rate among young children in South China has reached 3 in 100,000, which is already very high (after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the incidence rate in large Eastern countries was 4 in 100,000).

Moreover, once young children are infected, the disability rate reaches 50% and the fatality rate is not low. Therefore, it is urgent to develop a vaccine for this disease.

Shi Jintang thought for a while, and then reminded: "This disease should be actively studied. Children are related to our future, so we cannot be careless. In addition, we must also pay attention to the prevention and treatment of ascariasis."

The harm of ascariasis to young people should not be underestimated, although Nanhua has already implemented targeted decoctions for young children among immigrants.

However, this disease is not easy to control. Traditional Chinese medicine decoction can only temporarily eliminate some adult insects, but cannot cure the root cause.

Shi Jintang thought of the pagoda candies and sugar pills that his fathers had eaten when they were children. He continued to remind: "As far as I know, there is a plant called 'Artemisia roundworm' in Tsarist Russia, which is more effective in preventing ascariasis. You can buy some through business channels." Plant and cultivate.

If it can be successful, then there will be a specific drug to prevent and treat ascariasis. "

Although Xia Yi was curious when she heard this, Chairman Shi had already become a god in her heart, so she immediately nodded in agreement.

"Okay, Chairman, we will send someone to find and negotiate as soon as possible."

After that, she continued: "The domestic birth rate, neonatal mortality rate and maternal death rate due to dystocia are basically maintained near the standard line required by the cabinet.

It’s just that the natural mortality rate of the people has increased, reaching 1.5%, which is normal.

Many of the first batch of immigrants to arrive were middle-aged people. They had lived in South China for more than thirty years and had basically reached the end of their lives. "

Hearing these words, Shi Jintang couldn't help but sigh, and he felt the ruthlessness of time more and more.

He now began to understand why the ancient Holy Emperors were so eager to pursue immortality.

Faced with the temptation of supreme power and unlimited empire, anyone would shout: Let’s borrow another five hundred years from heaven as our ultimate request. (End of chapter)