The Untold Story releases Zhang Boli’s short documentary on battle against pandemic

Under the promotion of Boli, traditional Chinese medicine intervened in the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the whole process

Zhang Boli, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and honorary president of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a fighter against COVID-19 with TCM. In August 2020, he won the national honorary title of ‘People’s Hero.’ The short documentary was produced by The Untold Story, and it mainly told Zhang’s story about battling against COVID-19 and cultivating a useful medical talents team.

In this video, in January 2020, COVID-19 broke out in the city of Wuhan. The 70 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) expert Zhang Boli and his team rushed to the front lines to help. At the beginning of COVID-19’s breakout, Zhang Boli led a medical team of more than 350 medical personnel from Tianjin and Jiangsu to station in Wuhan Jiangxia shelter hospital.

Under the promotion of Boli, traditional Chinese medicine intervened in the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the whole process. All the 16 shelter hospitals in Wuhan distributed TCM prescriptions at the same time, and the utilisation rate of TCM reached 90 per cent. 

Boli said that China needed to cultivate a team of high-level medical talents who can fight and win at present and what we can do is to practice ‘basic skills’. This is a very important link to improve the professional ability of medical students.