Chapter 1188 Face to Face

Obviously, the infection of hundreds of people is a minor event relative to the entire country.

In the words of a certain leader, there are dozens or hundreds of people who died in a mine accident. Although infectious diseases are not very common, they cannot be said to be very serious. After all, compared with cities with millions or tens of millions of people, only five patients died in a few months, which does not show the seriousness of the problem.

"I reserve my opinion on handling this matter." Fan Heng felt a little unhappy. His son Fan Wubing had specifically told him that this matter was very serious, but from now on, everyone's mind was not on the whole problem.

Everyone nodded. Obviously, the Politburo meeting should also be strictly recorded. Fan Heng's reservations should also be recorded. After the matter is properly handled in the future, everyone must review it and see whose opinion is correct.

However, at this time, most people think that Fan Heng is making a fuss.

The leaders of the Ministry of Health all vowed to come over. This time the incident has been firmly under control and it will never be expanded or out of control. Naturally, as an outsider, there is no need for you to point fingers.

Fan Heng still expressed his concerns very conscientiously, for example, the infectious disease that broke out this time has never been seen in many years, and Guangzhou seems to have no effective means of control when facing this problem.

"For a malignant infectious disease whose cause has not yet been identified, if it cannot be effectively controlled, it will spread very quickly. I think the Ministry of Health should take some preventive measures to prevent the spread of SARS. If it spreads to Beijing, it will be troublesome." Fan Heng said to everyone.

Some people said that they didn't care much about it. "It's probably just a bad cold. If the typhoid fever is severe, it can still kill people."

The implication is that Fan Heng is making a fuss.

At this time, Mang Wubing had already arrived in Guangzhou by private plane.

As soon as he got off the plane, he saw the heads of the Guangzhou branch who came to greet him.

At this time, he could already feel the emotional changes in Guangzhou. To use a more accurate word to describe it, it should be panic.

Everyone who came to pick him up wore a white mask. As soon as Fan Wubing got off the plane, he was given a big mask.

"Mr. Fan, the situation here is special, so it's better to be careful." The person in charge of the Guangzhou branch said to Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing nodded,

and consciously put on a mask, and then the group got into the car.

As soon as I got into the car, I smelled a smell of hydrogen peroxide. It was obvious that Guangzhou had made full preparations before picking up the plane, and even disinfected the car inside and out.

When the car arrived at Shen Ying's hotel, Fan Wubing hurried to Shen Ying's room and carefully asked about her condition.

"It's okay, it's probably a bad cold, and the cough has improved a lot." Although Shen Ying was still a little bit in poor spirits, she didn't seem to cough anymore.

Fan Wubing used his hand to test her temperature and felt it was normal. Then he carefully took her pulse for a while and felt that her pulse was becoming calmer. It should not be a symptom of **, and it was obviously a false alarm.

"In any case, it's not advisable to stay here for a long time." Fan Wubing made a decision.

In fact, it was very easy to leave. Just arrange for Fan Wubing's private plane to return. However, Ziqi still had some unfinished business, so Fan Wubing and Shen Ying discussed it and decided to return to Beijing together after Ziqi's show was finished the day after tomorrow.

Being in Guangzhou, Fan Wubing immediately got first-hand information about saRs.

At the end of December last year, a critically ill patient was transferred from Heyuan to the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College. The patient's symptoms were very strange: continuous high fever, cough, shadows occupying the entire lungs, and no antibiotics for treating pneumonia were effective.

Two days later, news came from Heyuan that eight medical staff in a local hospital who had treated the patient were infected with the disease, and their symptoms were the same as the patient.

Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was shocked, and the medical community in Guangdong was shocked. The strange disease was finally called ** pneumonia, an infectious disease that is a hundred times more terrible than ordinary pneumonia.

Guangdong fell into panic just after celebrating the Spring Festival. On February 10, people began to rush to buy some drugs and foods that were said to be able to prevent and treat **. In just two days, Isatis root was out of stock and white vinegar was sold out, so that when someone in Beijing mailed white vinegar to their relatives working in the south, they found that the mailing boxes used for packaging in the post office had been sold out.

"The real panic is still to come. Now it is just a panic in Guangzhou..." Fan Wubing said to everyone, "We need to do something to help the current medical community improve the conditions to fight this new virus."

Everyone nodded in agreement. In this incident, a large number of medical staff were also infected, which is a worrying problem. Even the conditions of such a large hospital cannot stop the spread of the disease, so how should ordinary people treat it?

The next day, Fan Wubing and the person in charge of Guangke Company and others, after contacting, pulled various supplies and a check of 10,000 yuan and went to the first line of Guangzhou City to accommodate SARS patients, the Institute of Respiratory Diseases of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University.

Here, Fan Wubing and others met Academician Zhong Nanshan of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

"Please send the most critically ill COVID-19 patients to us!" At the moment when Zhong Nanshan, on behalf of the Institute of Respiratory Diseases of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, generously asked the Provincial Health Department for help, the history of Guangdong's anti-Afghanistan struggle opened a tragic page.

At this time, it was the most severe moment when the dark clouds were pressing down and the COVID-19 demons were at their craziest in Guangdong. As China's most famous respiratory disease expert and the leader of the Guangdong COVID-19 Medical Treatment Expert Guidance Group, he could not have been unaware that the enemy he faced was an unknown killer with a very strong infectious pheromone that people were afraid to avoid.

He could not have been unaware that a group of colleagues had fallen under the clutches of COVID-19 one after another, and he could not have been unaware that this would be a fierce battle, and if he did not do it well, it might affect his reputation.

He was one of the first experts to treat COVID-19 patients, and he was also the first person to realize the serious consequences of the spread of COVID-19 and decisively submit an emergency report to the relevant departments. However, precisely because he knew it completely, he could not allow himself to stand idly by.

"We are originally engaged in respiratory disease research, and fighting the epidemic is our duty. Just like a deminer encountering a minefield, who will go if you don't? This time it is type 2 pneumonia, and the next time it may be infectious myocarditis. I believe that people who do cardiology research will stand at the forefront like us, and will never flee because of fear of infection." The simple and unadorned language interprets Zhong Nanshan's understanding of the bottom line of professional ethics.

Facing such experts, Fan Wubing had nothing to say, but just asked people to send condolences and two umbrellas of checks for 10,000 yuan to show their support for their fight against the epidemic.

The leaders of Guangzhou City who accompanied Fan Wubing introduced the situation to them with emotion. Facing old colleagues and old subordinates who had shared hardships for many years, and facing pairs of trusting and expectant eyes, Academician Zhong looked solemn and said concisely, "It's time to test us!"

On New Year's Eve, when thousands of families were reunited, the building of the Guangzhou Medical Respiratory Research Institute was brightly lit, shrouded in a tense atmosphere that was almost suffocating. All medical staff gave up their vacations, stayed at their posts, and were ready. Graduate students and trainees studying at the Institute of Respiratory Diseases also volunteered to join the front-line team bravely.

The treatment process was tragic. Since the early critically ill ** patients were highly contagious, at the peak of the disease, sometimes two or three medical staff would fall down at the same time to treat one patient.

In a short period of time, 26 white-coat warriors in the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University were infected, and four of the six business backbones in the U ward were knocked down at once.

Death was close at hand, but no one fled in the face of the battle, no one hesitated, and when the front fell, someone immediately rushed to fill in. Once the fallen person was cured, he immediately returned to the battlefield without hesitation.

As the director of the Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Zhong Nanshan, who is nearly 70 years old, took the lead and always stayed in the intensive care unit regardless of his personal safety. His grandson came back from New Zealand to visit relatives, but he almost didn't see his grandfather during the entire Spring Festival holiday.

Just two days before Fan Wubing and others came to visit, Academician Zhong, who had not slept for several days, fell ill due to overwork when he walked out of the ward after checking. However, he only rested at home for two days, and immediately returned to his intense work as soon as his fever subsided.

According to people around him, Academician Zhong had used his own body for experiments when he was studying in the British Isles. When human life and health were seriously threatened by non-communism, this scientific fighter was not only considering the hundreds of lives at the moment. As China's most famous respiratory disease expert, he was struggling to explore how to form an effective prevention and treatment plan as soon as possible and to defeat non-communism, the public enemy of mankind, as soon as possible.

To this end, the research team led by him combined clinical practice, worked day and night, worked hard, observed and tested repeatedly, and gave non-invasive ventilation to hypoxemia patients to help breathing and keep the airway open. For patients with alveolitis and pulmonary fibrosis, steroids were used reasonably, and for patients with combined bacterial infections, some antibiotics were used in a targeted manner to reduce complications. This has also become a relatively mature ** prevention and treatment plan at present.

Because it was a strictly isolated infectious disease, Fan Wubing and his colleagues did not have close contact with the patients. Even the attending doctors only waved and greeted from a distance. All supplies were delivered by special personnel.

Fan Wubing stood outside, feeling infinite emotion in his heart. Although most people hate hospitals, it cannot be denied that there are still many people in this system who are worthy of admiration.

Only when the Chinese face the most severe difficulties will they burst out with strong cohesion and fighting spirit.