Zhong Nanshan Delivers Lecture on Tuberculosis Prevention to Sanitation Workers

March 24, 2021 marked the annual World Tuberculosis Day. The public welfare campaign titled “End TB Epidemic, Breathe Freely and Healthily,” jointly organized by the Zhong Nanshan Medical Foundation and Guangdong Lions Clubs, was successfully held at the Huilong International E-commerce Industrial Park in Baiyun District, Guangzhou. The Zhong Nanshan Medical Foundation established a main venue and branch venues, and conducted live online broadcasting.

This campaign aims to help the public learn how to prevent tuberculosis, foster health awareness of early detection and early treatment, and comprehensively improve the physical fitness and health status of the nation.

Academician Zhong Nanshan stated in his lecture that there are many infectious diseases that affect our pulmonary health and hinder our ability to breathe freely. While COVID-19 was a typical example last year, tuberculosis (TB) is another critically important infectious disease. He warmly issued the following initiatives to the public: First, start with oneself by raising awareness of self-protection. Second, actively promote education so that more people recognize the hazards of TB and understand the importance of early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment. Third, care for patients by treating them equally and facing the challenge together. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers can converge into a powerful force, working jointly to accelerate the achievement of the goal to end the TB epidemic.

Sanitation Workers Attend Lecture by Academician Zhong Nanshan

The Zhong Nanshan Medical Foundation is a non-public fundraising foundation established on July 5, 2011, with the approval of the Department of Civil Affairs of Guangdong Province. It was initiated by the Industry-University-Research Base of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, the Industry-University-Research Branch of the National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, and the National University Science Park of Guangzhou Medical University. Adhering to its mission of “serving the people with lofty ideals and practical actions,” the foundation takes “serving the country, society, medicine, and the people” as its purpose, and upholds the “Nanshan Spirit” of “dedication, innovation, pragmatism, and teamwork” as its core values. Since its establishment, the foundation has carried out a series of academic, public welfare, and charitable activities, including student aid, poverty alleviation, disease relief, and academic exchanges. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the foundation actively advocated and mobilized resources, organizing frontline support, donating funds and supplies, providing subsidies to frontline anti-epidemic workers, funding scientific research, co-establishing demonstration bases for hospital infection prevention and control, and conducting public welfare campaigns, science popularization, and poverty-alleviation educational assistance.

Sanitation Workers Undergo Tuberculosis Screening

This public welfare initiative also received strong support and was co-hosted by the Guangdong Lions Clubs. The Guangdong Lions Clubs is a social, public-welfare, charitable volunteer service organization with independent legal person status, specially approved by the State Council and registered with the Guangdong Provincial Department of Civil Affairs. Established on April 2, 2002, it is one of the earliest Lions Clubs founded in mainland China.

Sanitation Workers Line Up for Airdoc Health Screening

The event featured not only expert lectures on tuberculosis prevention and control, but also free chronic disease health screenings for sanitation workers on site, powered by Airdoc’s advanced AI technology.