3,675 from 41 emergency medical teams are ready to set out from Wuhan for home in batches. 497 of them come from affiliated hospitals of Fudan University.
At the midnight of March 17, five mobile medical vehicles carrying eight medics from Fudan-Huashan Hospital’s third emergency medical team took to the road back to Shanghai. They are among the first batch of Shanghai medics who are going to return home.
Hubei traffic police saw Huashan medics off
Huashan medics arrived in Shanghai
These medics were dispatched on February 4 to aid Wuhan, China’s epicenter of COVID-19. The next day, they started to treat patients in Wuchang module hospital, a makeshift hospital that could accommodate 784 hospital beds.
At Wuchang module hospital, the team worked along with over 800 medical workers from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University and 13 medical teams nationwide. With their cautious care, the first 28 patients were discharged from the hospital only 6 days since the hospital was open, a big morale boost to the public’s confidence in the fight against the virus.
Through distance medical consultation with Fudan-Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, patients felt assured as they were able to seek medical advice from so many specialists. Psychological counseling was also available to relieve their anxiety. Medics and patients even cheered each other up by singing, dancing and exercising together.
On March 10, the last 49 patients were discharged from Wuchang Module Hospital, marking the closure of the last module hospital. According to a work report of the team, among a total of 1,124 patients accepted to the hospital during the 35 days’ operation, 833 were discharged and 291 were transferred. It was a miraculous success that no patient died at all; no discharged patient required further medical intervention; and no medical worker was infected.
Since their arrival in Shanghai, the medics have been put in a quarantine of 14 days. The vehicles they rode in will be kept sealed in the meantime.
Photo source: Wen Hui APP, eastday.com
Editor: Deng Jianguo, Li Yijie
