In order to support the overseas anti novel coronavirus(2019-nCoV) , the Chinese company SANLI MEDICAL “desperately” rushed to produce virus specimen collection tube

Xinhua news agency, Changsha, May 25 (report by Yangjian)A men sits on a small bench with a report in his hand. Chen Pingxuan is directing transport vehicles in and out of the factory in an orderly manner. At age of 57, he looks like an ordinary worker, but he is actually the boss of a large medical consumables company.

Chen Pingxuan is the chairman of Liuyang SANLI Medical Technology Development Co., Ltd. (referred to as SANLI MEDICAL). Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia, he has been in the factory every day, either in the workshop or in the warehouse.

“There are so many overseas orders that we have to work overtime.” Mr.CHEN PING XUAN’s face is a little tired.

29 years ago, Mr.CHEN PING XUAN set up a factory , which is the founder of the production of sterile automatic vacuum blood collection tube in China. After several rounds of development, SANLI MEDICAL is now the largest automatic vacuum blood collection tube and needles production base in Asia. More than 100 kinds of products, such as vacuum blood collection tubes and blood collection needles, have been sold overseas with an annual output value of 800 million RMB.

In mid February, novel coronavirus pneumonia was detected with increasing strength, especially for disposable virus specimen collection tube. Mr.CHEN PING XUAN found the local Drug regulatory department and applied for an emergency transfer production of disposable virus specimen collection tube.

In only three days, SANLI MEDICAL developed the products and transformed the production line. On February 17, two production lines of SANLI MEDICAL with 300,000 disposable virus specimen collection tubes per day were put into production. Subsequently, a batch of virus specimen collection tubes were successfully offline and transported to Hubei province and other anti epidemic front lines.

Based on its strong scientific research strength, SANLI’s virus specimen collection tubes has unique advantages: it can keep samples for 48 hours, significantly longer than the ordinary sampling tube. Soon, orders coming one by one ,more and more.

“When the epidemic was most serious, a batch of virus virus specimen collection tubes were transported away by trucks as soon as they were offline.” Workshop worker Mi Xian Ying told reporters.

Liuyang SANLI Medical Technology Development Co., Ltd is waiting for the delivery of medical consumables.

With the rapid spread of the overseas epidemic, foreign orders of SANLI MEDICAL is exploding. There is an urgent situation in foreign countries. Every 3 minutes, there is a enquiry call. We are looking for us to produce virus specimen collection tubes.” Ms Chen Yuan Yuan, Sales manager of International Trade Department of SANLI Medical, said.

Due to the time difference, the international trade team of SANLI MEDICAL still communicates the order information with overseas customers in the early morning every day, even drives to Shenzhen, Shanghai and other airports to coordinate the export matters, only to send the virus specimen collection tubes to foreign hospitals as soon as possible.

Due to the pressure of overseas orders, the task of overall coordination is very heavy. As the chairman of the board, Mr.Chen Ping Xuan had to work as the “general dispatcher”, running back and forth between the workshop and the warehouse to ensure that every order was produced, shipped and delivered in time .

“When a batch is produced, draw a circle. Take a batch and draw another circle. ” Mr.Chen Ping Xuan said that the work of “general scheduling” is not easy. The customer urges the goods every day. If there is a mistake, it will take a long time.

According to statistics, since the resumption of production on February 02 to May 20, SANLI MEDICAL has exported medical consumables to more than 100 countries such as Portugal, Britain, Italy and Germany, including 15.7 million blood collection tubes, 1.9 million blood collection needles and 30 million virus specimen collection tubes, strongly supporting the overseas anti epidemic.

On May 15, India placed an order for 210,000 virus specimen collection tubes, requiring delivery on May 21; on May 17, the Philippines placed an order for 900,000, requiring delivery on May 23; on May 20, Nepal placed an order for 40,000, requiring delivery on May 25. Overseas orders keep increasing in Mr Chen Ping Xuan’s scheduling book, the workshop had to run 24 hours in shift.

“In order to support the overseas anti epidemic, we are almost” desperate “to catch up with the work.” Mr Chen Ping Xuan said that in front of the epidemic, human beings are a community of common destiny. He hoped that “the epidemic ended quickly” and finally we win the battle of virus.

(CCTV news report for Virus specimen collection tube of SANLI MEDICAL)

(Hunan TV  news report for Virus specimen collection tube of SANLI MEDICAL)