On Chinese New Year's Eve, arranged and conducted by the Tianjin Municipal Health Commission, the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Medical Insurance and Tianjin Cyberspace Administration Commission, Tianjin “Weiyi”, an internet hospital, was carried out online in a bid to provide one-on-one consultation and follow-up consultation services online for citizens.

While citizens are staying home most of the time due to the outbreak of the epidemic, they can get advice as well as guidance on Tianjin Weiyi Internet Hospital from professional doctors within only 3 minutes, without going out.

Hardly had the internet hospital been launched, large quantities of consultations from local citizens and patients from all over the country, especially Wuhan, flooded into the online platform, with the number of consultations per minute reaching 60, and therefore the 1,500 doctors currently serving online are nearly working at capacity.

According to Li Tian, the person in charge of the operation of Tianjin Weiyi Internet Hospital, people can log in Tianjin Weiyi after following its Wechat official account and begin consultations, and during the battle against the epidemic, patients who have been consulted through Tianjin Weiyi Internet Hospital need not pay any fees on the platform, and the subsidies of doctors are all paid by the Weiyi platform.

For patients whose cases are mild and have no symptom of fever, doctors can issue electronic prescriptions online and the medicine prescribed will be delivered directly to them.

For patients who have fever-related symptoms, they will know whether they need to go to the tangible hospital for further examinations or not after consultations with specialists in respiratory department, infectious department, and internal medicine and receive appropriate instructions.