Hearts in China - We are all from Hubei
Dear brothers and sisters:
In the past few days, the news that made us happiest is that the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection has greatly declined in China, especially in the Hubei Province. We feel relieved a little bit even though the inflexion point of this epidemic has not arrived yet and there are still many uncertainties ahead, especially the pressure of a massive return to work in China and the quickly climbing number of confirmed cases outside China. We still need to continue our urgent prayer for the relief of this epidemic.
Another piece of encouraging news is the discrepancy between daily demand and supply of protection suites in the larger and medium sized hospitals is narrowing, given the declining number of confirmed cases and the operation of medical supply manufacturers gradually getting restored, according to what we learned recently. Nevertheless, some county hospitals are still lacking protection suites. Some doctors there are using plastic bags and ponchos as makeshift protection suites. These are the main targets we are assisting at present.
As of 02/25, we have purchased 1,460 protection suites to distribute to hospitals in many places. After hearing the arrival of the protection suites, one hospital that had an exhausted supply of them for two days sent out to pick them up immediately from the Disaster Relief Command Center. We pray that our God will use these to protect the medical staff on the frontline against the hazard of this virus. We plan to purchase 400 more suites to send to county hospitals on the frontline.
During this time, through some indirect contact, we have got into touch with a private hospital in Wuhan, which initially did not take in coronavirus patients but was recently designated in the 4th batch as one that does. Their supply of required resources was not in place. Their doctors only had industrial protection suites to use. They also had no shoe wraps and used plastic bags instead. Through some great efforts, we were able to quickly provide them with 50 medical protection suites. We also ordered 10 medical air sterilization machines, according to their requirements, for 3 Nursing Stations and 7 large patient wards, 5 of which were shipped on 02/24 and the rest will be shipped on 02/26. We pray that these machines will be delivered to the hospital in time and function effectively.
At the same time, the 41 sets of ventilator and oxygen machine combos, 10 nebulizers, and 10 suction machines that we purchased have all arrived in the frontline hospitals.
Lastly, we’d still like to express our gratitude to the multitude of brothers and sisters who gave offerings to this mission via various means so that we could receive them in time. So far the total amount of offering we have received is USD 92,282.16 and our total expense is RMB 915,159.00 (USD 128,122.26). As we said, we will still purchase 400 additional protection suites (with a total cost of RMB 68,000 / USD 9,520). AOCF will fill the gap with its own funds. Therefore, we have reached the conclusion of this round of fundraising. Thank you all again for your offering in love! Also thank you for your trust. May the Lord remember you and reward you Himself!
Our website www.usaocf.org is online now. If you’d like to follow the latest development of our ministry, please visit our website. We will provide timely updates of all our progress there.
May our God be with you and bless you!
American Overseas Chinese Foundation
02/25/2020