RAMALLAH, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian medical experts held a video conference on Thursday with their counterparts from the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
This is the third meeting between Palestinian and Chinese clinicians and health workers, which was arranged by the Office of the People's Republic of China with the State of Palestine in order to exchange knowledge and experiences in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila thanked China and its medical experts for their ongoing efforts to help Palestinians during this crisis.
"Thank you very much for the technical support, especially during this corona era in which we need this sort of help," al-Kaila said.
"Also, we congratulate you (China) for you have done a great job," not only at the domestic level in containing the virus and establishing protocols and trials to get vaccines, but also on experimental research, she added.
Ali Abed Rabbo, head of the preventive medicine department at the health ministry, told Xinhua that the meeting tackled the latest figures related to the pandemic and focused on the revision of medicinal protocols for active cases, asymptomatic patients and for those who have recovered as well as progress made with regards to preventative measures.
The two-hour meeting ended on a positive note and with an agreement to follow up on recommendations and experimental research results, as well as the cultural and social practices that have helped contain the spread of the disease.
"We have regular meetings to explore all new things, published papers and the daily work our colleagues in China do with their patients and how is patient treatment protocol, even how to deal with patients with persistent positive PCR results, and when they are asymptomatic," Abed Rabbo said.
Since March, the number of confirmed cases in Palestine has reached 548, with four virus-related deaths. Enditem
