China-Japan Hospital workers serve admirably in Wuhan

Medical workers from China-Japan Friendship Hospital, a major public hospital in Beijing, provided 383 diagnosis and treatment services to COVID-19 patients at two makeshift hospitals in Wuhan between late January and early March, an official from the hospital said. 

Doctors and nurses sent by the hospital were among the first of all medical teams in Wuhan to provide services to patients at Dongxihu Fangcang Hospital and Guanggu Fangcang Hospital, two major makeshift hospitals in Wuhan converted from exhibition halls, said Wang Yansen, head of the National Emergency Medicine Rescue Team at China-Japan Friendship Hospital. Wang made the remarks at a news conference on Saturday. 

Doctors and nurses from the hospital drafted rules and operation procedures for makeshift hospitals and continued to optimize them. They also provided standardized and customized treatment to patients to prevent their condition from deteriorating, Wang said. 

Due to effective self-protection measures, none of the medical workers from the hospital working in the two makeshift hospitals were infected, he said. 

A total of 16 makeshift hospitals, converted from major exhibition halls, sports stadia and warehouses, were built in Wuhan, the hardest-hit city in China by the epidemic, in February to exclusively receive and treat milder COVID-19 patients. They were all closed by March 10 due to a lack of new patients. 

In addition to treating patients at two makeshift hospitals, the 164-member medical assistance team sent by the hospital also helped treat severe coronavirus patients in Tongji Hospital, a top hospital in Wuhan, for more than 70 days of their stay. The last members of the team returned to Beijing on April 7, according to the National Health Commission.