Medical teams have rushed to aid the coronavirus control efforts in Central China's Hubei Province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, one after another. Countless medical supplies and daily necessities have been donated to the province. Numerous people are busy working to support the province in the fight against the virus. 

Staff members of the China Women's Development Foundation (CWDF) as well as the partners of the foundation are some of the loving people.

Since the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, which fell on January 25 this year, the CWDF has coordinated with its partners and received their support.

The staff members knew about the needs of the local medical workers and patients with the help of the Women's Federation of Hubei Province.

When the CWDF heard on January 30 that there was an urgent need of respirators in hospitals in Hubei, its staff members took immediate action to raise money to purchase the respirators. 

A group of the CWDF's partners, including Cummins (China) Investment Co. Ltd, JAC Volkswagen Automotive Co. Ltd, the China Association for Small and Medium Commercial Enterprises and the Herose Club, an association of women entrepreneurs, lent their helping hands to the fund-raising project in two days.

In order to transport the respirators efficiently and precisely, the CWDF's staff members contacted the frontline medical staff through the Women's Federation of Hubei Province and experts involved in the Health Express for Mothers, a project initiated by the CWDF to improve impoverished women's health, so as to examine the performance of the devices and determine the hospitals that would receive the devices.

The staff members raced against time to send the 56 respirators which cost a total of 11.38 million yuan (US $1.63 million). All the procedures, ranging from fund raising to delivery, were done within 72 hours.

The medical equipment are expected to be sent to seven hospitals in the cities of Wuhan, Huanggang, Xiaogan and Xiangyang in the province. 

(Women of China)