On May 25, local time, during the 71st World Health Assembly, at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus presented a certificate and a team flag to the China International Emergency Medical Team (Sichuan). Entrusted by West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Li Zhengchi, the chief liaison officer of the China International Emergency Medical Team (Sichuan) and the executive deputy secretary of the hospital, Shen Bin, the captain of the China International Emergency Medical Team (Sichuan) and the deputy secretary of the hospital, and Xu Shuqiang, the director of the Emergency Office of the National Health Commission, accepted the official flag and certificate from Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. This marks that the China International Emergency Medical Team (Sichuan) has officially become the world's first non-military Category III international emergency medical team that has passed the WHO certification and evaluation, that is, the highest standard international emergency medical team.

On behalf of all team members, Executive Deputy Secretary Li Zhengchi solemnly promised: The medical team is always ready to accept international emergency medical rescue missions at any time under the unified dispatch of the Chinese government and the World Health Organization, carry forward the lofty spirit of "respecting life, saving the dying and the wounded, being willing to make sacrifices, and loving without boundaries", fulfill their duties and missions, convey righteousness and love, and provide safe, timely, effective and equal emergency medical rescue services to the victims. Li Zhengchi said that in the future, the China International Emergency Medical Team (Sichuan) will keep its mission in mind, continuously improve the team's work system and emergency response mechanism, and further enhance the team's overall combat capability.

The China International Emergency Medical Team (Sichuan) was established under the guidance of the National Health Commission of China and the Health and Family Planning Commission of Sichuan Province, with the National Health Emergency Mobile Disposal Center (tent team) built by West China Hospital of Sichuan University as the main body. In July 2017, the medical team applied for certification to the World Health Organization. After two rounds of pre-evaluation, it passed the formal evaluation and certification of the World Health Organization on May 5, 2018.

The medical team has 166 core members, mainly from West China Hospital. The team members cover all secondary disciplines of clinical medicine, including 41 doctors, 65 nurses, and 60 other personnel such as logistics support. The team has participated in the on-site medical rescue work of major disasters in China, such as the Wenchuan earthquake, the Yushu earthquake, the Yiliang earthquake, the Lushan earthquake, the Maoxian mudslide, and the Maoxian high-altitude mountain collapse, as well as the emergency medical rescue work of the Nepal earthquake, and has rich practical experience and high rescue capabilities.

The team covers an area of about 9,000 square meters under the standard configuration, and is equipped with 95 tents in the full layout. The total number of equipment is 1,827, including medical, logistics, communications, and life, with a total weight of more than 60 tons. There are 40 beds in the general ward, including independent obstetrics and gynecology wards, pediatric wards, rehabilitation wards, 6 beds in the intensive care unit, and 4 beds in the isolation ward; there are 2 operating rooms and 1 anesthesia recovery room.

In addition to fuel, it can independently complete 28 days of clinical medical work. Every day, 200 outpatients, 15 major operations and 30 minor operations can be completed. After operation, the tent hospital will be able to carry out triage, advanced life support, intensive care, trauma surgery, orthopedic diagnosis and treatment, general anesthesia, emergency surgery, acute and severe treatment of infectious diseases, obstetric emergency treatment, pediatric trauma and routine pediatric disease treatment, chronic disease critical treatment, mental health patients and medical care and referral for rehabilitation patients, safe blood transfusion and other medical services, as well as laboratory testing, basic X-ray and ultrasound and other examination items.

At the same time, the medical team fully absorbed and learned from the advanced experience of other domestic and foreign teams according to different disaster types and the team's own characteristics, actively innovated and developed rescue equipment, and realized the modularization, miniaturization and intelligence of rescue equipment, which can meet the needs of air transportation and long-distance delivery.

(Compiled according to the news of the National Health Commission)