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Safe and Sound: All 171 SAHZU Professionals Return from Wuhan

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An airliner carrying the 4th group of Zhejiang provincial medical team land at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport at 2pm March 31 Tuesday. 171 medical professionals from SAHZU come back to their hometown of Hangzhou after the 46-day combat with COVID-19 in Wuhan.

SAHZU President Prof. WANG Jian’an warmly greet the heroes and congratulate on their remarkable performance in Wuhan. Prof. WANG commented their selfless medical assistance in Wuhan as a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all of them and a definite highlight of their life. “When on the front-line, you are not only warriors in white gown, but are sowing the seeds of hope. You brought our core value of putting patients first to Wuhan. I hope the Wuhan spirit that you brought back here could be forged into another indispensable part of our treasured Guangji culture. Please keep translating our core value into practices, and working with us to improve hospital management and clinical strength.” said Prof. WANG.

With the arrival of this medical team, all the 178 COVID fighters from SAHZU have finished their tasks and returned. Although it has been 46 days and nights since departure, they will be arranged to rest and isolated at a sanatorium of Anji for the next 14 days before reuniting with their families. 


“You shine light into ICU.”

2.jpgDOCTORS PERFORMING ENDOCHEAL INTUBATION

ICU is the battlefield to save severe and critical COVID-19 patients whose condition could change at any minute. At the moment between life and death, it totally counts on the medical team’s ability to save patients.

Upon arrival at the 3rd floor of Cancer Center of Wuhan Union Hospital on February 14, what the SAHZU medical team saw was an orthopedic ward that just evacuated its patients. In the next 24 hours, the team remodeled the layout, installed new equipment, reallocated manpower and optimized protocols. Despite limited time and resources, the team successfully transformed the entire floor into a 40-bed intensive care unit only for COVID-19 patients. Around 8 PM February 15, SAHZU’s Wuhan ICU began to operate when the first group of 26 patients arrived one by one.

SAHZU Executive Vice President and medical team leader, Prof. WANG Weilin, remembers clearly it that night when A 42-year-old male patient, breathing heavily, but said: “Thank you for coming to Wuhan people at this difficult time. You are like light shining into our life with hope.” “Patients of Wuhan trust us so much. We have to spare no efforts to fight for them.” Said Prof. WANG Weilin.

Every minute matters in the combat with this deadly virus. The next day, two rules were set inside the medical team. One is to maximize its capacity to hospitalize patients; the other is to intervene the treatment early. Under the guidance of these two rules, the ICU was quickly running at a full speed. Many doctors, including Dr. LI Libin, Dr. LUO Rubin and Dr. ZHANG Bin, performed endotracheal intubation for patients in need of mechanical ventilation at the risk of being infected.

But SAHZU medical team was not all by themselves while in Wuhan. Multi-disciplinary case discussion via video conferencing has been conducted several times between the two cities. Individualized treatment plan was drafted together with the strong expert panel based in Hangzhou. Dr. ZHANG Bin, a respiratory medicine doctor and member of Wuhan team, said he felt powered and more confident with the whole hospital backing him up.

A total of 95 patients were admitted to the SAHZU’s Wuhan ICU during the 46 days, 94 in severe and critical conditions, 68 directly discharged from ICU after treatment.


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“The needs of patients and customers come first. ”

March 19, after 30 days at the Cancer Center of Wuhan Union Hospital, SAHCU medical team was reallocated at the ICU ward of the hospital’s West Campus. SAHZU professionals, who could have returned to Zhejiang and to their families, chose to staym, because “Wuhan patients still need us and our colleagues in Wuhan still need us”.  As the core value of SAHZU says, the needs of patients and customers always come first. This is the principle that guides the medical team.


“We are fine!”

Stories of love and care circulate in the Cancer Center of Wuhan Union Hospital.

The nursing team prepared special food of home taste for a 98-year old patient to improve his appetite.

SAHZU psychologist, Dr. LIN Zheng, worked closely with the patient family to cheer up an 85-year old patient who refused to eat and wanted to give up.

A 92-year old patient wrote two full pages of thank-you note on the medicine instructions, saying he was moved into tears because he received so much care and love from the doctors and nurses.

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 “Not one less!”

“Zero infection” is the best trophy for the medical team.

Zero infection requires medical supply and protective clothing. Besides, the large number of medical devices and materials brought along with the team to Wuhan, Hangzhou kept sending the best protective clothing, either donated or purchased, to Wuhan to ensure the team’s safety during the 46 days, because Wuhan is the “top priority”.

Zero infection is a result of team work on infection control. After taking over the makeshift ICU, the nursing team worked especially hard on controlling nosocomial infection. They set up protocols to make sure that each shift has 2 nurses working solely on infection control. They created easy rhymes for the team to remember key points in infection control.

Thanks to their profession and concentration, not a single patient or medical worker was infected by the time the ICU was closed.





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