Front-line medical workers have made great contributions.

They're under unimaginable physical and psychological stress.

Their persistent and dauntless, indomitable struggle

selfless dedication and the humanitarianism spirit of the doctor

is the key to treat and cure plenty of patients.

The following is an introduction of several pioneers

of epidemic prevention and control war in non-public hospitals

which reported by Wuhan Economic TV correspondent.

Medical personnel fight side by side, concentric fight against the epidemic!

Hanyang Hospital, a privately hospital, was included in the fifth batch of COVID-19 designated hospitals on February 2. To fight against the epidemic, all staff in this hospital do their best.

Xie Bin, Vice Director of Hanyang Hospital, says, “In order to deal with outbreak, we immediately increased the emergency department and related medical staff. Eventually, we transformed the physical examination department of the medical building into a fever clinic and provided 24-hour treatment service. According to the standard of ‘three areas and two channels’, we changed the internal medicine building into a standard treatment ward, and set up seven respiratory wards, with the total number of beds reaching 250, which increased the treatment capacity and alleviated the shortage of medical treatment resources.

Chairman of the hospital, Zhang Fu, urgently contacted the China Non-Public Medical Association, which sent 165 medical staff to support Hanyang Hospital and easing the pressure of understaffing. Hospital executives work edify morale as they work alongside front-line medical staff.

    Xiang Li, from Human Resources Department of Hanyang Hospital, says, “the hospital chairman specially brought 150 Kilograms of vegetables from a hundred miles away to our hospital and stay together with us in the front line of the fight against the epidemic. On February 25, we received a notification from our higher government that the hospital would transform to receive non-COVID-19 patients. When the COVID-19 patients were in the process to transferred to Huoshenshan Hospital, and Leishenshan Hospital, the chairman rode a Mobike bicycle to the hospital late at the night to participate in the hospital transfer work.

    Wang Yufang, an emergency department nurse born in 1999, has been working as a medical staff for less than half a year. She was told by an old nurse in the department that the volume of infusion would be more than usual before the Chinese Lunar New Year. However, she never expected that she would experience such an unprecedented major epidemic when her career just started.  

   Wang Yufang, the emergency department nurse at Hanyang hospital, says, “When I was first admitted to the hospital, my heart was broken and I was totally at a loss. My family, especially my father, were set against it. They told me to quit. They said the job was too dangerous.”

However, after recovering from her illness, Wang Yufang chose to return to work after the quarantine period.

Wang Yufang says, “After being isolated at home for 14 days, I could not continue to work until there was no problem after checking again. Our department has been very busy and very short of staff. I experienced SARS in 2003, when I was very young, only four years old, but I knew that the medical staff at that time was also very hard. As the Internet says, they used to guard us who were born after the year 1990, now it's our post-90s’ turn to guard them.”

The mother of Ai Hongyan, director of respiratory medicine, is nearly 80 years old this year and has been receiving targeted drug treatment in her hometown for lung cancer. She had planned to visit her mother during the Spring Festival, but the sudden outbreak of the disease has left her unable to take care of it. She has been fighting in the department for more than two months.

Ai Hongyan, director of the department of respiratory medicine at Hanyang hospital, says, “All the doctors and nurses in the department worked very hard, but none of the medical staff flinched. Our department doctor Gong Lili was scheduled to go home on the sixth day of the first lunar month to get married, however, the epidemic postponed the wedding date, everyday stick to the ward. Another example, our doctor Wu Bangyin's father and brother-in-law had a fever at home. I was worried about him, so I asked him to have a lung CT to see what happened. He said he was alright and taking some medicine will be OK. He has been stick to his post.

Zuo Xiaobing, director of the emergency medical department who was used to the big scene, also set a new record for his work—working 16 hours a day at the peak of the day, trying his best to treat patients.

Zuo Xiaobing, director of the department of emergency medicine at Hanyang Hospital, says, “Our hospital is not very big, but the number of patients we treated soared during the period of rising epidemic. The peak of our emergency medicine treatment was more than 500 patients in 24 hours. We had to work until 12:00 at night, which was equivalent to working for 16 hours. The whole department was very hard."

Thanks to every medical worker. Never stop to save one more person, even when the danger is too close. We would like to thank them for all they have been through.