In previous years, the streets on this day, there will always be people carrying a variety of gifts to each other new year. But that day, on the road but few pedestrians, occasionally one or two people walk by, is also wearing a mask, walking in a hurry.
Since December, a sudden pandemic has swept Wuhan. In a city that smells of disinfectant, there is anxiety, fortitude, and hope
Sixteen recently admitted patients with severe infections were placed in isolation wards at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University.
In this I.C.U. , life and death are the norm.
After 5 pm, the hospital canteen has prepared "big box lunch" . They pile up in incubators and are sent to a break room outside a wall of the isolation ward.
A meat and two vegetables are served in the box lunch. The off-duty nurses were already hungry. They took off their masks and quickly put food into their mouths. There is also a limited supply of boxed meals, each with the name of its owner written on it.
Peng Zhiyong, director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, could not explain exactly how many years he did not spend with his family during the Spring Festival. He was used to spending the holidays in his hospital room. "I've spent the last three weeks here. "
The hour hand is pointing at eight o'clock.
Li Ching, a nurse who had just come out of the isolation ward, took off her heavy protective clothing and rummaged in the incubator for a New Year's Eve dinner with her name on it. Her forehead was wet with sweat, and the ligature marks on her goggles and mask were visible.
To ward off any danger from the isolation ward, Li Ching and his colleagues had to wear three layers of protection before entering: a first layer of protective clothing, a hood, gloves, and shoe covers; a White Hazmat suit; A face protective layer is composed of a medical mask, goggles and a face screen.
It takes 30 minutes to put on a suit like this. Wearing a protective suit would also limit the movement of medical staff, "such as walking, drinking water and going to the toilet. So you need to leave the isolation ward every four hours and take a rest. "
But in times like these, four hours is a luxury. After the outbreak, colleagues even had to work for 16 hours in protective clothing, Peng said.
While Li Ching was on the front lines, her father and aunt, both doctors and nurses, were on the front lines. "My brother was the only one at home with my mother. Darling, who is over 1 year old, and her husband were also waiting at home. "
Unable to identify each other, they also figured out a way to write their names and pep talks on the back of each suit.
"I had a video call with my mother this morning. She taught me how to make dumplings, in case I couldn't make them, " Li Ching said.
She will leave work at 1 am and "go home and make dumplings. "
This night, the nurse Fu Line in the nurse station received a phone call: family members to the patient New Year, please her to convey. The other side said in the telephone: "Mom, you good refuels, waited for you to recover, your daughter, the grandson waited at home for you to go back to New Year. "
She went into the isolation ward and sent a blessing from a distance.
Some of the nurses were replaced in the isolation ward. People coming in and out, young and tired. They were in Wuhan, Wuhan, as everywhere else in the country, and it was midnight on New Year's Eve.
In the early morning of the 25th, a circular announcement read: "A letter to all Wuhan residents" , reminding residents to "go out wearing masks, wash their hands frequently, usually ventilate, go to less crowded places... "
In the nearby business district, most businesses have closed their doors. In the few restaurants still open, diners are sparse, but there are always a crowd hurrying into the door -- a Florida delivery boy.
"these days, a lot of people from all over the country order takeout food for the medical staff of the nearby Central Hospital and the Hankou Hospital, " said Lin Jiaming, a delivery man, pointing to the rows of orders on his mobile phone
In a note to an order form, a caring person wrote: "I'm really sorry! I have no way to go to Wuhan but to trouble you, just give the security guard at the entrance of the hospital. I hope you take care of yourself, too. GO TO WUHAN! "
Mineral water, noodles, cakes, fruit, milk tea were sent to the major hospitals.
These heartwarming messages and takeout have touched the health care workers. But health care workers also warn that most of these foods, which they don't have the time or opportunity to eat, are not only likely to be wasted, but also increase the risk of delivery boys, occupying and contaminating the cleaning area of the ward, to the detriment of both patients and doctors.
That's very kind of them!
At 3:30 this afternoon, officials announced that another hospital would be built within half a month, with 1,300 additional beds.
Yesterday, New Year's Eve, Wuhan Huoshenshan hospital construction site, bright lights.
Scene, hundreds of excavators at the same time, countless dirt trucks in and out. The different colors on the equipment and vehicles represent the construction units from the Third Construction Bureau, Wuhan Construction Engineering, Wuhan municipal government and Hanyang municipal government. The project will be completed by February 3. In 10 days, a 25,000-square-meter hospital will be built to receive and treat 1,000 patients.
Wuhan citizen Wang Guojun's home in the vicinity of the site, learned that the site to recruit volunteers, he has enthusiastically signed up. Unable to operate mechanical equipment, Wang Guojun can not participate in first-line operations, but look eagerly at the construction site in front of him, my heart also followed with anxiety.
He bought bread and drinking water for the workers.
"It is very hard for me to watch them lose themselves in their work. At this moment, I believe everyone in Wuhan is in the same mood as me: The more difficult times are, the more we must unite as one and tide over the difficulties together! "
As the outbreak escalated, 85 hotels in Wuhan decided to provide free medical support in order to support their frontline medical staff.
They spontaneously organized the Wuhan Medical and Nursing Hotel support group to solicit air conditioning hotels to volunteer to provide free accommodation for the first-line medical and nursing staff of major hospitals in the Wuhan area.
Group leader Xiao Yaxing is a local hotel owner in Wuhan, whose name 4 hotels all participate in this support. He is in the group contact, coordination to find including 84 disinfectant, masks and ultraviolet lamps and other supplies suppliers, while constantly in the group issued their own "Civilian Hotel check-in staff and business notice. ".
"notes" , Xiao Yaxing reminded medical staff to do their own protection, advised them to carry Disposable; hotel staff to prepare, remember to check out with 75% medical alcohol disinfection..
Currently, there are 85 local hotels offering accommodation on a voluntary basis, and more hotels are joining us, covering 11 regions including Hongshan district, Wuchang District district, Hankou district and Caidian District district.
On the 24th, the eve of the Lunar New Year, in China's health materials hometown of Xinxiang, Henan Province, enterprises are still in a tight production.
Workers can produce 100,000 masks and 1,200 suits a day.
In order to make up for the national gap in medical protection supplies, the first-line workers around the clock, full power supply line, the manufacturers also said: DO NOT INCREASE THE PRICE!
On the first day of the New Year, Wuhan is still cold and overcast with drizzle.
"happy new YEAR TO GRANDMA AND GRANDPA! MOM AND DAD won't be back for the New Year this year. You must take care of yourselves! "
Early in the morning, Qu Wen, who lives in the east-west Lake district, pulls his parents to send New Year wishes to his family in Xiaogan by video phone. Although unable to meet, but looking at the smile on grandma and GRANDPA's face, Qu Wen put down his heart.
In previous years, she and her family would drive back to Xiaogan, from the first day to the seventh day, relatives and friends will take turns catering, lively New Year.
"I wish you peace and security. "
Wang Shengyi, 27, was busy editing blessing messages on his mobile phone to send New Year wishes to friends and relatives on Lunar New Year's Eve.
He said that because many relatives and friends work away from home, they can only get together well during the Chinese New Year. But now is in a special period, yesterday elders in the family wechat group and everyone to discuss the cancellation of New Year and visit plans, has been agreed by all.
"I had prepared a lot of red envelopes in advance this year, but now I don't think I can use them. I have to send them on Wechat in my family group. It's a pleasure to grab them together. "
"You do not come, I am not hurt. " Is recently spread in Wuhan People Circle of friends in a blessing.
Some people said: "Let us temporarily separated from their loved ones, the epidemic as the top priority for the new year, to be brilliant mountain flowers, each other are well. "
The New Year has come. May Wuhan meet us in the spring.