A medicinal materials warehouse of the Xinjiang Military Area Command has
been entrusted with the task of providing over 80% of medicinal materials
support to several hundred units of the command. How to provide adequate support
to these units? Li Zongzhen, director of the warehouse, spoke candidly: to
devote ourselves heart and soul to providing service for the health of the
officers and men.
As the grassroots medical units in the Xinjiang Military Area Command have
neither facilities nor skills to store up special drugs and first-aid medicines,
this warehouse has extensively collected information to establish an information
network which links the general headquarters/departments, major pharmaceutical
companies throughout the country, and military hospitals and clinics in the
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to ensure that the first-aid drugs can be
delivered to the needed units within the shortest possible time.
In order to meet the medicinal need of the frontier officers and men, the
leaders of this warehouse went to grassroots units to listen attentively to the
suggestions and proposals of the officers and men. Besides, in addition to
providing the frontier defense companies with medicines according to the supply
standard, this warehouse also allocates several hundred thousand yuan each year
to buy over 20 new and special-effect drugs for frontier officers and men and
deliver them to each frontier company and sentry post free of charge.
In order to fit in with the decentralized support, this warehouse has
boosted its support capacity by using modern circulation means to forge a 3D
efficient "support chain". Nowadays, the network has extended to embrace all
sentry posts in border areas. Thus, if the frontier officers and men require
some medicine urgently, they need only to send a message to the warehouse, the
medicine will be swiftly delivered to them even if they station at the sentry
posts in snow-capped mountainous regions thousands of miles away.
By Wang Yanxiang and Wu Jin
(Feb 7, PLA Daily)
