The Party branch of the Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration's Medical Device Supervision Office works hard to be a 'guardian' of medical device quality and safety.

Southern Network News (Reporter Liu Hao, Correspondent Yue Shijian) The epidemic is the order, and prevention and control is the responsibility. In order to effectively carry out the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, the medical device supervision department of the Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration fully played the role of the party organization's fighting fortress and the vanguard and exemplary role of party members, upholding the original aspiration and mission of the new era Communist Party members, and taking the lead in the country in the prevention and control of medical supplies and quality supervision.

Act early, act fast

On January 21, the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau established an epidemic prevention and control leading group. As the leading unit of the drug and medical device guarantee group, the medical device supervision department quickly organized a preliminary investigation of the production enterprises of medical device-related prevention and control products in the province, and according to the four categories of medical protection, temperature monitoring, diagnostic reagents, and monitoring and detection, it understood the production capacity and inventory of major production enterprises in Guangdong Province. From January 22 to 23, inspection teams were quickly dispatched to conduct on-site verification of the resumption of production and inventory of enterprises. On January 23, a "Notice on Effectively Doing a Good Job in the Supervision of Drugs and Medical Devices Related to the Prevention and Control of the Pneumonia Epidemic Caused by Novel Coronavirus Infection" was quickly issued, and the quality supervision of medical masks, medical protective clothing, and other products needed for epidemic prevention and control was taken as the current key task. The early preparation, rapid action, laid a solid foundation for Guangdong to further urge enterprises to quickly resume work and production, ensure product quality, and expand production capacity.

Guard the post, fulfill the responsibilities

On the evening of January 23, after Guangdong launched a level 1 response to a major public health event in the province, party members and cadres in Guangzhou took the initiative to give up their Spring Festival holidays and quickly devoted themselves to epidemic prevention and control work. On January 27, all members of the branch returned to their posts as scheduled. Daily statistics of supervision and inspection in various places, timely understanding of the supervision dynamics in various places; implement a daily inspection and reporting system for key prevention and control materials such as medical masks, medical protective clothing, and in vitro diagnostic reagents, and real-time grasp the production and inventory situation, urge enterprises to standardize production, and ensure the quality and safety of prevention and control products; conduct supervision and inspection of the resumption of production of key epidemic prevention and control material production enterprises, emphasizing that enterprises implement their main responsibilities and ensure product quality and safety; organize supervision and inspection of enterprises producing medical masks and medical protective clothing that have been registered for emergency use.

With clear division of labor and detailed responsibilities, the party members and cadres of the branch carried out various tasks in a tense and orderly manner, truly fulfilling their responsibilities and performing their duties.

　Dare to take responsibility, grasp implementation

On the evening of February 5, facing the shortage of pharyngeal swab virus sampling tubes in the province, party members and cadres of the branch deployed and set off overnight to enter production enterprises, coordinating production enterprises and storage units, urgently dispatching products to ensure the supply of urgent needs for epidemic prevention and control. On February 6, 30,000 copies were purchased and stored. By February 27, a total of 1,000,000 copies of pharyngeal swab virus sampling tubes and 1,000,032 copies of nucleic acid test kits had been stored, completing the double-hundred task and successfully completing the urgent task entrusted by the provincial epidemic prevention and control command center. On February 15, in order to solve the problem of insufficient supply of sterile medical protective clothing and to speed up the solution of radiation sterilization, party members and cadres of the branch went to production enterprises and radiation sterilization centers to contact and solve the problem of entrusting third-party radiation sterilization, and completed the radiation sterilization task of 600 sets of medical protective clothing on the same day.

The epidemic is the order, time is life, seizing every minute and second, working tirelessly and without complaint, reflects the team combat effectiveness of the party members and cadres of the branch who can fight battles, fight tough battles, and win battles.

Grasp production capacity, ensure quality

Facing the tense situation of medical prevention and control materials, the resumption of production, conversion, and expansion of production capacity of enterprises, party members and cadres gave full play to their professional advantages, going to the production front line to guide enterprises in improving production processes, optimizing production processes, and strengthening product inspection to ensure product quality. They focused on studying the similarities and differences between domestic and foreign product standards and ensured the quality of imported emergency medical supplies. A WeChat contact group was established between the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and production enterprises to coordinate and solve the difficulties of enterprises in terms of raw materials and production equipment shortages. Contacting testing institutions to conduct expedited testing of emergency prevention and control medical supplies such as medical protective clothing, medical masks, and infrared thermometers.

As long as the epidemic does not disappear for a day, the work will not stop for a day. All party members and cadres of the medical device supervision department of the Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration, in this battle against the epidemic, always work together with one heart and one mind, practicing the commitment that every medical mask and every piece of medical protective clothing delivered to medical personnel is safe and secure, and making their due efforts to win the battle against the epidemic.