Manila, Philippines–Over 200 healthcare professionals and health managers from the Philippines medical community participated in a specially organized webinar by Alibaba Health and the Global MediXchange for Combating COVID-19 (GMCC), first established by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation in March.
Joined by their counterparts in China, the participants exchanged knowledge and experience in managing the COVID-19 virus effectively, surfacing many valuable insights and considerations towards the fight against COVID-19 in the Philippines.
The initiative is part of the wider mission by the GMCC, with the support of Alibaba Health and Alibaba Cloud, to continuously aggregate collective successes and learnings of medical workers on the frontlines through online discussions, videos and webinars, and best practices in the form of epidemic management and treatment handbooks.
The session, held yesterday, was attended by Officials, Program Managers and other Technical Staff of the Department of Health Central Office, DOH Centers for Health Development, DOH Retained and Teaching Hospital; and Municipal Health Officers, Provincial Health Officers of the Local Government Units and a multi-disciplinary team from Zhejiang Provincial Peoples Hospital including doctors from the medical administration department, nursing department, hospital infection management department, international cooperation department, radiology department, intensive care unit, infectious diseases department, clinical laboratory center, health management center, orthopedics department, psychiatry department, and radiology department.
Hearing about the actions taken, how you sustained the efforts and managed your resources we can contextualize it to the situation in the Philippines to better protect our people,” said Dr. Pretchell P. Tolentino, MCHM Division Chief, Learning and Development Division – Health Human Resource Development Bureau, Department of Health.
“This fight against COVID-19 is global, and we cannot and will not rest until they eradicate it or mitigated worldwide. Through GMCC we hope to continue to support our collective efforts against the pandemic by serving as an open exchange platform for medical professionals to group together and strategize success,” said Li Ma, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Health.
