Medical team from 37 hospitals in Liaoning leaves for Hubei
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Organized by the National Health Commission, a team comprised of 137 members from Liaoning Province left for Hubei on Sunday to help in the coronavirus control efforts there. Doctors, nurses and experts from 37 hospitals across Liaoning have been selected or volunteered to sign up for the task, some of whom were involved in the 2002-03 fight against SARS – severe acute respiratory syndrome.“We cannot back away from our responsibility to help 17 years later as people are facing the outbreak of a new coronavirus. We are willing to be deployed to the front line to make our contributions," said Dr. Guo Lihua, the head of Liaoning medical team to Hubei.