A special couple brings love to fighting disease
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Gong Yabin, the deputy director of the No. 1 cancer department at Shanghai Yueyang Hospital of the Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, has been sent to the newly-built Leishenshan Hospital, a makeshift hospital for treating patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan.
His wife, Zhe Zhe, an attending respiratory physician from the Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, was also selected for the national traditional Chinese medicine team from Shanghai that was dispatched to support Wuhan.
Since the hospital was not fully completed when they arrived, Gong and his colleagues also had to overcome difficulties like cold weather and poor facilities. They furnished the wards on their own as well as doing other tasks, like sterilization.
From Wednesday afternoon, the section Gong belongs to started to accept patients and all of its 48 beds became occupied.
“Both of us are doctors. Now is the time that the country needs us most,” Gong said. “The most romantic thing I could think of is combating the COVID-19 with her. After we get all these things done and the epidemic ends, we’ll come to Wuhan again to enjoy the fruits of our efforts and the beautiful cherry blossom here.”
Shanghai has sent 1,636 medical staff from 89 hospitals to support Wuhan, the heart of the coronavirus epidemic. They are working in 28 sections of 17 hospitals, including three intensive care units, 16 sections for serious patients, three sections for ordinary patients and six makeshift hospitals, said Zhao Dandan, vice director of Shanghai Health Commission and chief coordinator of the city’s medical teams in Wuhan.
“Shanghai’s medical professionals have played an important role in clinical practice in Wuhan and have been invited to participate in expert groups to offer instruction on medical quality and hospital infection control,” Zhao told a news conference in Shanghai via Internet connection.
In Shanghai, another couple are fully engrossed with the city’s campaign against COVID-19. At the Shanghai Railway Station Customs, Wu Jiaping, deputy head in charge of the health and quarantine, is busy working hard on designing plans and making arrangements to prevent and tackle COVID-19.
About 15 kilometers away at the Shanghai International Travel Healthcare Center, his wife Zhang Xiaohang, a local customs’ technical support section chief, is conducting tests on samples delivered from different customs branches at her lab.
“I’ve been working in the fields of international travel medicine and health and quarantine for long time. When I first heard the news of the epidemic in Wuhan in December, I had a feeling that something unpleasant would happen,” Wu told Shanghai Daily.
Then Wu began asking colleagues to be careful and pay attention to the spread of the epidemic as well as preparing for the prevention and control of COVID-19 at the railway station.
“Now it’s time to use my knowledge and the possible risks will never obstruct me from fulfilling my duty,” Wu said.
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