Turkish medical representatives and some senior experts from China's Hunan Province on Friday held a video meeting to discuss measures to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.
Emine Alp Mese, deputy health minister of Turkey, and 15 other medical specialists consulted the Chinese experts on the ways to diagnose, the treatment of patients, the medical observation of the recovered, the management of patients without symptoms and the protection of hospital staff.
Hu Chengping, professor of the Xiangya School of Medicine of Central South University, and seven other Chinese scientists responded to the queries, and shared their experience of diagnosing, different treatment of patients of various types, the use of Chinese traditional medicines and the isolation measures.
Mese hailed the efforts of China in fighting the novel coronavirus, expressing her appreciation to the Chinese experts for sharing valuable experience in the patient treatment, and in preventing the spread of the virus.
The deputy minister said the experience will be of great help to Turkey in dealing with the outbreak.
The meeting was chaired by Chinese Ambassador to Turkey Deng Li.
As of Friday, Turkey's total confirmed cases of COVID-19 climbed to 47,029, and the death toll reached 1,006, according to official figures. Enditem
