After the university entered the quasi-closed-loop management of epidemic prevention and control, the faculties on campus actively implemented various tasks to ensure that the teaching and learning of the teachers and students who stayed at the school were carried out in an orderly manner. While finishing online teaching and research tasks, some faculties who work from home actively participate in community volunteer services, and some use their professional advantages to serve epidemic prevention and control. They are all doing their part for epidemic prevention and control, and sharing warmth to guard Shanghai, the people's city.
The community where Dr. XIA Xiaomei from the Department of Transportation Systems Engineering is located has been closed for 14 days since the afternoon of March 14th. On that evening, the owners of the community were discussing that they could not go out because of the closure and no one would collect garbage and express delivery. Dr. Xia thought that she could provide help to the neighbors within her capacity in the time other than giving good lessons for the students. So she decided to join the volunteer team. Starting from March 15th, she was responsible for sending and receiving express delivery at the gate of the community every day. She worked about 5-6 hours a day on average. There are nearly 1,500 residents in the community where Dr. XIA lives and the volume of sending and receiving express delivery was very large. The volunteers delivered to the residents’ doorsteps for whose buildings or households have been closed.
Dr. Xia said that in the process of volunteering, she felt that everyone has a sincere heart to care for their own homes. The volunteers who delivered the goods were wearing isolation suits. They were soaking wet when it was hot. The weather was cold and rainy these two days, and their shoes were soaked. But no one complained. During the service progress, she felt the warmth of other residents in the community. When they asked for help in the owner group to collect rain boot covers, the enthusiastic owners would also respond immediately and deliver them as soon as possible after purchasing them on the takeaway platform.
Dr. Xia's repeated words are, We are all ordinary people, doing ordinary things with an ordinary heart, hoping to contribute to the prevention and control of the epidemic.
LUO Guofen, a teacher from the Department of Public Administration, is a community volunteer in Dinghai Street. During the period of working from home, he was appointed by the neighborhood committee as the administrator of the WeChat group for the residents of the building. In the WeChat group, he sent notifications, explained doubts, and carried out ideological work for some residents who did not understand very well and had an impatient personality. In addition, Dr. Luo needs to notify the residents of the building one by one to confirm the number of people in the building. There are many foreigners and elderly people in the community where Dr. Luo lives. For residents with limited mobility, Dr. Luo and other volunteers accompanied the whole process. Dr. Luo used his mobile phone to register the nucleic acid detection QR code on the health cloud, sent the screenshot to the cadre of the neighborhood committee to print, and then distributed it to the residents who would not operate on the mobile phone. In this way, they can use the printed QR code to make nucleic acid, which reduces the waiting time of queuing for accounting and testing, and greatly improves the testing efficiency.
Dr. Luo has always emphasized that these are trivial matters and nothing to be concerned about. The hardest is the medical staff, volunteers on duty outside and the cadres of the neighborhood committee. We do some auxiliary work to reduce their burden and make nucleic acid testing smoother and more efficient.
The community where Dr. ZHANG Ye from the Department of International Economics and Trade lives was closed on March 19 because of COVID-19 cases. After seeing the call from the owner group, she signed up for volunteers as soon as possible. She was responsible for distributing couriers at the gate of the community and delivered couriers to the home for the residents who were isolated at home. She oversaw sweeping the building and informed all residents to go downstairs for nucleic acid testing. For residents who do not understand, they should move it with emotion, and do a good job of mobilization. The whole work process is intense and fulfilling. Dr. Zhang said: “Medical workers have been working really hard. It is very difficult for me to wear a protective suit and a mask. My hands are frozen when it rains, and the workers who have been fighting on the front line have been fighting day and night, whether in the wind or in the wind. The rain is holding on, pay tribute to them!”
In addition to participating in community volunteer services, the Shanghai Institute of Management also has a group of special volunteers who contribute professionally to epidemic prevention and control.
Recently, Prof. ZHAO Laijun led the team of graduate students to assist Shanghai CDC to complete daily epidemic prevention and control work such as information statistics and data search. After the school entered quasi-closed-loop management, team members have always maintained close contact with CDC, and continued to accurately and efficiently complete related work online.
In view of the deficiencies in nucleic acid screening, Dr. ZHU Shuicheng from the Department of Public Administration put forward suggestions for improvement and reported them to relevant government departments to make suggestions for epidemic prevention and control.
In addition to volunteering in the community, Dr. LUO Guofen also made suggestions to relevant departments for the problems encountered in the nucleic acid detection process. For example, nucleic acid screening should avoid missing detection and false detection, and community contact groups should not be dismissed too early, suggestions on using nucleic acid testing to complete badges to deal with the delay in uploading test results, and suggestions on promoting the use of traditional Chinese medicine preventive prescriptions among isolated and controlled populations.
The student team led by Dr. LIU Weiwei from the Department of Transportation Systems Engineering conducted a survey on the problems in the last round of community epidemic prevention and control. He wrote a solution for Investigation and Optimization of Community Public Health Emergencies Prevention and Control, which was adopted by several neighborhood committees, and was publicly praised by the Yangpu Youth League District Committee. This plan has been promoted and implemented in epidemic prevention and control.
The prevention and control of the epidemic is inseparable from volunteers like all teachers. We praise you! We call on all teachers and students to actively cooperate with the epidemic prevention work of the university and the community to practice the concept of people's city built by the people with practical actions and jointly protect this warm city.
Translator: FU Wenhan
Reviewer: Zhou Yiwei
