As of March 2, a total of 4,323 volunteer service organizations and more than 600,000 volunteers in Quanzhou, a city in East China’s Fujian province, had stepped forward to join volunteer service activities for novel coronavirus epidemic prevention and control, according to estimates.

Volunteers organized services such as donating anti-epidemic materials, participating in health and epidemic prevention measures and opening phone hotlines.

A volunteer helps a man put on his mask. [Photo/qzwb.com]

On Jan 23, the Quanzhou Young Volunteer Association received a call from Wuhan volunteers for help.

It immediately launched a fund-raising campaign, successfully collecting more than 180,000 yuan ($25,942.58).

It also donated 80,000 masks, 1,000 sets of isolation clothing, 4,000 pairs of medical gloves, 204 barrels of medical alcohol and 28,000 adult diapers to Wuhan, the city hardest hit by the epidemic in China.

The city issued a proposal letter on Jan 29, calling for volunteers and volunteer service organizations to actively participate in epidemic prevention and control measures.

On Feb 5, Quanzhou's epidemic prevention and control emergency headquarters dispatched 1,326 people from 60 municipal units to form epidemic prevention and control teams in villages.

More than 430 Party member volunteers in Anxi county applied to join the community's epidemic prevention and control team.

In addition, 351 medical workers from Fengze district also formed a reserve volunteer service team of private hospitals, to alleviate the pressure caused by shortages of medical staff in primary medical institutions during the epidemic period.