第17个“世界卒中日”系列义诊公益活动成功举办The 17th "World Stroke Day" series of charity events were successfully held.

 October 29, 2022 is the 17th World Stroke Day, and the theme of this World Stroke Day is "Identify Stroke One Second Earlier, Save Brain and Recover". In order to implement the spirit of the document "Healthy China Action (2019-2030)", effectively prevent and control the high-risk factors of stroke, improve the ability of the public to identify stroke, and reduce the occurrence of disability and mortality caused by stroke, on the morning of October 29th, a publicity campaign with the theme of "Identify Stroke One Second Earlier, Save the Brain and Recover Well" was held jointly by the municipal government of Linqing City, the Bureau of Health and Wellness of Linqing City, the Linqing City Center of CDC, the Liaocheng City No.2 People's Hospital, and the Community Health Service Center of Daxinzhuang Street of Linqing City. On the morning of October 29th, Linqing Municipal Government, Linqing Health Bureau, Linqing CDC Prevention and Control Center, Liaocheng Second People's Hospital, and Linqing Daxinzhuang Street Community Health Service Center jointly carried out a series of public welfare activities with the theme of "Identifying Stroke One Second Earlier, Saving the Brain and Recovering Well.

   Du Dongping, Standing Committee of Linqing Municipal Committee and Minister of Propaganda, Tang Minghui, Vice Chairman of Linqing CPPCC, Han Yi, Director of Linqing Health Bureau, Wang Dongming, Secretary of Party Working Committee of Daxinzhuang Street of Linqing and Zhang Tiezheng, Vice President of the hospital, Wang Xinqiang, member of the party committee of the hospital, Linqing Rongming and other related units attended the launching ceremony. The event was hosted by Comrade Wang Dongming.
   During the ceremony, Du Dongping, Standing Committee of Linqing Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, made a speech first. She hoped that by carrying out this activity, it would play a positive role in promoting the knowledge of health care and health education, enhancing the people's awareness of health care, improving everyone's ability to prevent strokes and improving the general public's health. We call on everyone to actively cooperate and take the initiative to participate in the stroke prevention and control work, so that people can stay away from cerebrovascular disease and other chronic diseases as soon as possible, so that people can maintain good health and truly realize the goal of universal health.
   Afterwards, Han Yi, director of Health Bureau of Linqing City, and Zhang Tie Zheng, vice president of the hospital, delivered speeches on the prevention and control of stroke and the construction of the Healthy China Action, and expressed their high respect and gratitude to all the leaders, experts, and medical workers who came to this public welfare activity.
   After the launching ceremony, a team of experts composed of 16 medical staff distributed health promotion materials to the people on the spot, conducted free blood pressure measurement, electrocardiogram, ultrasound, cranio-cerebral ultrasound and other screening programs for more than 50 residents, and accepted on-site consultation and on-site voluntary diagnosis.
   This public welfare activity, starting from the prevention and control of risk factors, helped more people to have scientific understanding of stroke, prevent stroke at an early stage, continuously improve the ability of stroke recognition, reduce the occurrence of stroke and other diseases, and enable more patients to obtain a healthy body through the free clinic and post-treatment, so as to continuously realize the goal of health for all people.

(Photo: Shouying Zhang)