Unity Among Overseas Chinese: Online WeChat Lectures Receive Rave Reviews from Expats — Jiangsu Provincial Overseas Chinese Federation Forms Seven Overseas "TCM Anti-Epidemic Care Groups"
At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spread globally, raising concerns for the healthsafety of overseas Chinese. In March 2020, Jiangsu Provincial Overseas Chinese Federation, in collaboration with Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Exchange Base for Overseas Chinese — Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, established a care platform for overseas Chinese to express the care of people from Jiangsu for overseas compatriots. They quickly formed seven "Jiangsu Provincial Overseas Chinese Federation TCM Anti-Epidemic Care Groups" in countriesregions with significant populations of Jiangsu-born overseas Chinese, assigning federation staffduty doctors to answer questionsprovide effective professional medical consultation services.The "TCM Anti-Epidemic Care Groups" serve large community of overseas Chinese from Jiangsu, offering the following services: daily collection of personalized needs, compiling themdocuments for analysisresponse by Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, arranging online expert lecturesconverting the audiodocuments for sharing within the groups to broaden the audience, regularly publishing videosinformation related to epidemic prevention, and coordinating the procurement of anti-epidemic medicines.In the first moments of creating WeChat groups, overseas Chinese community leaders from the U.S., Canada, Australia,Europe responded positively. Shu Yachun, the director of the department of pharmacy at Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, assigned a team of 14 pharmacists to provide consultation services in the groups, while Chang Cheng, the director of the Huijiao Base, carefully devised a plan for expert lectures. To date, renowned experts from Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, including Shang Hongtao, Chang Cheng, Zhou Jiang, Lu Zijie, Xu Jing, Chen Liehong, Sun Zikai,Liu Lanying, have conducted 14 online lectures via WeChat. More than 4,000 attendees from local Chinese consulatesrelevant Chinese community organizations have listened to these lectures. Enthusiastic listeners, including President Li Jiaying of the Canadian Hometown Friendship Association, have organized the expert lecturesaudio documents to further expand their online reach, allowing more overseas Chinese to benefit from TCM anti-epidemic knowledge. News link:https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Kcb5KCIdrtOhooYcHXPHvA