Behind the aid of 38,000 medical personnel in Shanghai: the two-way travel between Shanghai and Wuhan
April 5, 2022 15:31China News Weekly
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Work together to win this big battle as soon as possible
More than 73,000 positive cases have been reported in Shanghai since March. The Shanghai press conference on epidemic prevention and control held on April 5 revealed that the number of new positive infections in Shanghai exceeded 10,000 for the first time yesterday, bringing the total to 13,354.
Gu Honghui, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Government and Director of the Office of the Municipal Leading Group for Epidemic Prevention and Control, said that the Omicron variant virus spreads very quickly and is very hidden. At present, the Shanghai epidemic is still running at a high level, and the situation is extremely severe.
Shanghai launched the city-wide nucleic acid screening on the 4th. As of 8:00 on April 5, a total of 25.665 million people and 2.427 million tubes have been sampled in the city, 1.925 million tubes have been tested, and the remaining samples are still being tested.
Simultaneous testing in a megacity with a population of more than 25 million is undoubtedly a test of Shanghai's comprehensive capabilities. At present, 15 provinces in China have sent more than 38,000 medical personnel, and another 2.38 million tubes of nucleic acid testing force have been mobilized to support Shanghai.
Among the many medical teams in Shanghai, the medical team from Wuhan was called "hot dry noodles" and "raw fried buns" by netizens. "During the epidemic in Wuhan, Shanghai has provided us with a lot of help," a Wuhan medical staff who aided Shanghai told China News Weekly that they all had experience in fighting the epidemic in Wuhan, and they were able to work in Shanghai with ease.
On April 4, the medical staff of the Shanghai Aid Medical Team of Wuhan No. 6 Hospital were collecting nucleic acid for Shanghai citizens. Image source: Wuhan Sixth HospitalOn April 4, the medical staff of the Shanghai Aid Medical Team of Wuhan No. 6 Hospital were collecting nucleic acid for Shanghai citizens. Image source: Wuhan Sixth Hospital
Two-way travel between Hubei and Shanghai
"There is no one on the street, and the community is closed for management." The journey from the high-speed rail station to the quarantine hotel, Shanghai, which has lost its "vigor", reminds Bai Xiangjun of Wuhan in 2020.
He is the vice president of Tongji Hospital Affiliated to the School of Medicine of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the team leader of the Tongji Hospital's medical team in Shanghai.
At 3:00 pm on April 2, Wuhan Tongji Hospital received a notice of aid to Shanghai. After the outbreak in Wuhan, the National Health and Health Commission added a National Medical Center for Major Public Health Events and settled in the hospital on the basis of the existing national medical center plan. Wuhan Tongji quickly dispatched a team of 53 people from the medical center, including medical staff from respiratory, cardiac, renal, ICU and other departments.
"They all have experience in fighting the epidemic in Wuhan, and they can work very well in Shanghai," said Bai Xiangjun. They carried out training and assessments on hospital sense and personal protection against the epidemic through online video overnight, and concentrated in the hospital at 5 a.m. the next day. , rush to the first special train to Shanghai at 8 o'clock in the morning.
The Shanghai-aided medical team of Wuhan Sixth Hospital was notified earlier. Wang Xiaojiang, vice president of the Wuhan Sixth Academy, introduced to China News Weekly that they issued a notice to the hospital to voluntarily apply for assistance to Shanghai on about March 30. The initial quota was only 15 people. After the notification was issued, there were about 100 people. Sign up. Later, at the command of the province, the number of people in the sixth hospital was increased to 24, consisting of 4 doctors and 20 nurses.
The Wuhan Sixth Hospital Aid Shanghai Team. Image source: Wuhan Sixth HospitalThe Wuhan Sixth Hospital Aid Shanghai Team. Image source: Wuhan Sixth Hospital
The first person to sign up in Wuhan No. 6 Hospital was Jiang Cheng, deputy chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Jiang Cheng was once a patient with new coronary pneumonia. During the Wuhan epidemic in 2020, his lungs were completely white, and he once suffered from respiratory syncope and was hospitalized for a full 50 days.
Jiang Cheng shared his anti-epidemic diary on Weibo, which once attracted the attention of tens of millions of people. "Wuhan was so difficult at that time, and people from all over the country came to support us, and I was very grateful from the bottom of my heart." This time, he carried the banner of the leader of the medical team of the sixth hospital in Shanghai.
Like Jiangcheng, 24 medical staff have experience in fighting the epidemic in Wuhan. Wang Xiaojiang said that in addition to the order of registration, they also made professional arrangements. The four doctors were from the departments of respiratory, cardiovascular, neurology, and gastroenterology.
"In addition to taking care of patients with the new crown, I am also afraid that they may have other underlying diseases, such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and digestive tract diseases." Wang Xiaojiang said.
Bai Xiangjun also has a similar opinion. In a temporary makeshift hospital, if the patient management is not good, some unexpected situations may occur. The patients in Fangcang shelter hospitals are all asymptomatic infected or mild patients. Most of them do not need special antiviral treatment, so the emphasis is on management, psychological counseling, etc., so that patients can recover and transfer faster.
Due to the limited capacity of the train, the medical staff of the sixth hospital took two days' worth of anti-epidemic supplies, as well as a monitor, a defibrillator, and a first-aid kit, and then replenished the supplies through freight. After the list is determined, the hospital also has to explain and gain understanding with the family members of the medical staff one by one. "This is a very honorable task."
In the early morning of April 4, the Atour S Hotel, Aegean Sea, Hongqiao Center, Shanghai welcomed the medical team of the Wuhan Sixth Hospital. Image source: Atour GroupIn the early morning of April 4, the Atour S Hotel, Aegean Sea, Hongqiao Center, Shanghai welcomed the medical team of the Wuhan Sixth Hospital. Image source: Atour Group
During the epidemic in Wuhan in 2020, a total of 1,649 medical staff from Shanghai rushed to Wuhan. It is reported that the first batch of Hubei Province aided more than 1,000 teams to Shanghai, including 15 provincial and provincial medical institutions and 35 Wuhan medical institutions.
"36 Hours of Battle"
At about 12:30 noon that day, Bai Xiangjun and his party arrived at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station and were then sent to an isolation hotel. They were assigned to Jing'an District, Shanghai. After arriving at the hotel, they began to work point-to-point, "mainly through nucleic acid testing to screen out asymptomatic infections or mildly ill patients, and then transfer them to Fangcang cabin hospitals for treatment."
On April 4, Shanghai carried out nucleic acid testing across the city. This is Shanghai's first nucleic acid test for all employees after the batch testing of Pudong Punan and Puxi related jurisdictions. It is also an unprecedented large-scale screening. "36 Hours of Battle". The day before, Shanghai had already conducted a city-wide antigen test.
It is reported that after all the above work is completed, follow-up control measures will be clarified in accordance with relevant national regulations and combined with the screening results. Prior to this, the city of Shanghai will continue to implement closure and control management, and strictly implement "staying at home" except for medical treatment due to illness.
"I think after two years of fighting the epidemic, I have gained some experience. The community in Shanghai has been mobilized, and the residents have not shown too much panic." Bai Xiangjun said that in the early days of Wuhan, because he did not know the seriousness of the virus, The community failed to mobilize in time, and even made mistakes while busy, resulting in the incompatibility of nucleic acid samples and people.
Bai Xiangjun said that the nucleic acid detection system has been established in Shanghai at present, and the volunteers are very skilled in helping the medical team enter the information, and they are only responsible for sampling.
Medical staff from Wuhan Tongji Hospital entered the community to collect nucleic acids. Image source: provided by respondentsMedical staff from Wuhan Tongji Hospital entered the community to collect nucleic acids. Image source: provided by respondents
According to the Hubei Provincial Health and Health Commission, a total of 740 medical staff from Wuhan in Shanghai that day were divided into two groups and entered Minhang District and Changning District to carry out nucleic acid sampling of the new coronavirus for community residents, and a total of 399,000 nucleic acid samples were completed.
Jiang Cheng and his medical team, a total of 24 people, plus about 10 people from the local community health center, have completed nucleic acid sampling for about 20,000 residents.
"In general, because of the experience, the mentality is good." Jiang Cheng told China News Weekly that they were not too worried about the rising data at the press conference, because they had personally experienced the situation in Wuhan at that time.
In Bai Xiangjun's view, the epidemic situation in Shanghai has its own characteristics. "When in Wuhan, patients went to the hospital immediately after they were diagnosed with symptoms." But Omicron has more asymptomatic infections. The virus is extremely concealed and contagious, resulting in a rapid spread. This also led to a run on medical resources at once.
In this context, Jiang Cheng, the team leader, was also very uneasy in his heart. He hoped that the team members could work normally in Shanghai, and that they could return to Wuhan safely.
Bai Xiangjun repeatedly emphasized to the team members, hoping to increase their vigilance. "I'm afraid that the team members will not pay attention to it and will be careless," he said. After all, the Fangcang shelter hospital is not a regular hospital, and we must be careful to prevent the problem of hospital feeling. "I nagging like a mother-in-law more than ten times."
win this battle
This round of epidemics, which began in early March, is "cold in spring" and is sweeping across Shanghai. Even Shanghai, which is famous for its precise epidemic prevention and 3,000 epidemiological dispatchers, is inevitably in a severe situation in the face of the highly transmitted and concealed variant Omicron BA.2.
In Zhang Wenhong's words, the popular BA.2 in Shanghai this time should have an R0 value of 9.5. It means that 1 person can pass 10 people, which is almost 3-5 times of the early transmission power.
On March 24, the number of asymptomatic infections in Shanghai exceeded 1,000 for the first time, and from April 1 to April 3, the total number of new asymptomatic infections in Shanghai exceeded 22,000. At a press conference on Shanghai's epidemic prevention and control work held on April 5, Gu Honghui, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Government, reported that the number of new positive infections exceeded 10,000 for the first time on the 4th, bringing the total to 13,354. In this wave of epidemics since March, more than 73,000 positive infections have been reported.
Seven Census data show that Shanghai has a resident population of about 24.87 million. From the earliest nucleic acid "grid" screening, to "blocking" and "grid" parallel. With the Huangpu River as the boundary, the citizens of Shanghai have experienced different degrees of lockdown.
On March 25, at a press conference on Shanghai's epidemic prevention and control work, Zhang Wenhong, head of the city's new coronary pneumonia medical treatment expert group and director of the infection department of Huashan Hospital, said that the current increase in the number of cases has caused pressure on the entire medical system.
According to Chen Erzhen, the leader of the medical treatment team at the centralized isolation point in Shanghai and the commander-in-chief of the temporary centralized isolation and treatment point at the Shanghai New International Expo Center, the scale of the epidemic is even larger than that of Wuhan. He was the captain of the third batch of medical teams in Shanghai to aid Hubei.
At present, more than 38,000 medical personnel have been dispatched from 15 provinces across the country, and 2.38 million tubes of nucleic acid testing have been mobilized to support Shanghai. Their tasks include undertaking makeshift hospitals, nucleic acid sampling, laboratory nucleic acid testing, etc.
In the past few days, more than 20,000 medical and nursing staff from Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, which are adjacent to Shanghai, have rushed to help, which is called "family support".
In addition, it is of great concern that on April 3, the army recruited more than 2,000 medical personnel from 7 medical units affiliated to the army, navy, and joint logistics support force to support Shanghai in its epidemic prevention and control work.
On the morning of April 2, Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, rushed to Shanghai from Jilin to investigate the epidemic prevention and control work. Sun Chunlan emphasized that it is necessary to adhere to the general policy of "dynamic clearing" without hesitation, be resolute and decisive, act quickly and forcefully, implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on epidemic prevention and control, and step up efforts to carry out inspections and inspections. Relevant departments should give full play to their respective functions and professional advantages, mobilize resources such as testing capabilities, medical personnel, and prevention and control materials, strongly support Shanghai's prevention and control work, and work together to win as soon as possible. This big fight is tough.
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