Recording Huoshenshan Hospital: Unforgettable Moments of Fighting the Epidemic

Huoshenshan Hospital is equipped with auxiliary departments such as infection control, inspection, special diagnosis and radiology. A total of 1,400 medical workers from the armed forces have been tasked with treating patients in Huoshenshan Hospital since February 3. The medics include 950 people from hospitals affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Joint Logistic Support Force, and 450 from medical universities of the army, navy and air force of the PLA who were sent to Wuhan earlier. Among them are doctors, nurses, radiologists, pharmacists and sonographers, as well as medical workers from the prevention and control, management, and service departments. Many have worked to treat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Xiaotangshan Hospital and the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone and Liberia and have rich experience in the treatment of infectious diseases. On February 4, Huoshenshan Hospital began to receive diagnosed patients. As of February 28, a total of 527 patients had been cured and discharged from the hospital.

Tomorrow marks a month since the completion of Huoshenshan Hospital.

On February 28, China Pictorial reporters arrived at the intensive care and infectious disease area of Huoshenshan Hospital to record unforgettable moments in the fight against the epidemic.

Team members help each other to strictly prepare for protection to ensure zero infections, passing on their friendship.

Before entering the “red zone”, the area for treating diagnosed patients, medical workers adopt the third-level protection procedures for the process of wearing and taking off their protective suits in an orderly manner.

Nurses within the “red zone” in the first section of the intensive care department of Huoshenshan Hospital are carrying out intensive nursing.

Ensuring medical cooperation and precise treatment to save more lives.

Doctors conduct a high-risk operation—tracheal intubation—for a severe patient to improve the effect of treatment.

A medical worker taking a patient’s pulse while wearing three layers of surgical gloves.

 A medical worker presses the puncture point for a severe patient.

Zhang Xijing (left), director of the first section of the intensive care department, instructs a frontline doctor to adjust the treatment plan.

While preparing for operations, a medical worker hurries towards the patients to resolve their discomfort at the earliest.

The medical workers here not only take care of physical health of patients, but also give them sincere support and encouragement.

 A doctor plays videos of encouragement from the patient’s family members to comfort him.

 After precise treatment, a recovering severe patient gives a thumbs up to a medical worker.

A “refueling station” for the battle against the epidemic has been set up for the patients in the second area of the No.3 section of the infection department.

In the second area of the No.3 section of the infection department, medical staffers demonstrate their everyday photos to patients to deepen mutual understanding and friendship.

After treatment, a patient recovers self-care ability at the second area of the No.3 section of the infection department.

Today, from the determined look in the eyes of Wang Shengcheng, vice president of Huoshenshan Hospital, we see the confidence to win the fight against the epidemic: “Scientific prevention and control and precise policy implementation are powerful weapons for us to overcome the NOVID-19 epidemic.”

Wang Shengcheng, vice president of Huoshenshan Hospital, demonstrates a determined look in his eyes.