Guanshanhu district takes measures to fight coronavirus

Medical workers from the Baihuahu town health clinic hand out leaflets about the coronavirus outbreak. [Photo/the media center of Guanshanhu district in Guiyang]

Guanshanhu district in Guiyang city -- capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province -- rapidly mobilized to screen people and vehicles coming from other areas, especially Wuhan, to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, local officials said.

They said that medical workers were dispatched to check the temperatures of local residents and distribute medical masks to them at the Baihuahu town health clinic in the district.

Officials said 65 medical workers from the clinic were sent to measure the temperatures of locals who had recently returned from Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of the outbreak in central Hubei province. Twenty rural doctors were sent to 17 villages to help residents from getting infected.

"Once villagers are found to have an abnormal body temperature, we isolate them and send them to hospitals designated to treat pneumonia patients," said Liu Panwen, head of the health clinic at Baihuahu.

The town is a key transportation node for Guanshanhu district. Officials said that they had set up 40 checkpoints and arranged for 400 staff members to screen new arrivals and vehicles along major roads.

Zhao Yandi contributed to this story