Chapter 2083 Improvement
This was the scene that Yang Heshu and Major General Gong saw when they came over. Major General Gong was fine, but Yang Heshu felt a little distressed.
After all, he is the child who grew up under my watch.
The two of them came to ask Zhou Man to take people to take a look at the military camp.
Manbao quickly finished the bun in his hand, drank the rice porridge in one gulp, and stood up and said, "Let's go."
Medical assistant Qin and Medical assistant Luo were faster. They were Zhou Man's medical assistants, so naturally they walked with her.
The soldiers in the army who contracted smallpox were isolated in a camp next to the city wall. It was not far from the medical tent here, but they still took a carriage there.
The carriage was prepared for the three of them, but Yang Heshu gave up riding and got in the carriage with Manbao. He asked, "Are you tired?"
Manbao said, "It's okay. Brother Yang, are there many soldiers who are sick in the barracks?"
Yang Heshu said, "The current count shows 189 people, which is quite a lot considering the proportion."
"They had to block roads, guard city gates and checkpoints, manage medical tents, and even search every household for people who had contracted smallpox and were hiding. They had frequent contact with patients, so the probability of contracting the disease was also high."
He said, "Bai Shan is organizing people to make some masks, all for soldiers and officials on duty. I haven't asked you how useful these are."
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "It can at least reduce the infection rate by half."
Yang Heshu felt relieved when he heard this and immediately said, "I'll go back and ask someone to allocate more cloth to Bai Shan."
Manbao nodded.
After just a few words, they arrived. Manbao got out of the car carrying the medicine box and followed the people inside.
General Gong followed them to the front of the house and saluted Zhou Man solemnly, "Doctor Zhou, thank you for your help."
Manbao nodded.
The conditions here seem to be better than those in the medical tent, but in fact they are not much better. There are only rough people here who don't care about hygiene. When they get sick, they feel uncomfortable both physically and mentally, so they just lie on the kang. Because it is so itchy, many people can't help scratching several times. Now the rashes have broken out, and it looks very miserable.
Not only Manbao, but also Assistant Doctor Qin and Assistant Doctor Luo frowned.
Open acne rash is more difficult to treat and more contagious, so it requires more careful handling.
Manbao first took a look at the patients in the room and found that their conditions were not much better than those in the medical tent, and many of them were still running high fevers. She made arrangements, "Put those with high fevers in one room. I'll examine them and prescribe medicine, and then we'll give them acupuncture."
Manbao whispered to Assistant Doctors Qin and Luo about the precautions in acupuncture, and everyone started to get busy.
By the end of the day, Manbao had already distinguished the patients here from those in the other wards. She had someone write a number on each patient's bedside and then went through the hospital, asking questions and taking their pulses. After seeing ten people, she started writing numbers down below, listing those who needed the same prescription together. She then prescribed the appropriate amount of medicine and handed it to the waiting soldier, "Prepare the medicine according to the prescription."
The soldier, who couldn't read, took the prescription and ran back, "Why does it require twenty bowls of water and it takes so long to boil it..."
Manbao glanced at him and said, "Didn't you see? There are medicines for six people on top. Oh, and don't throw away the residue from the first boil. One dose of medicine can be boiled twice. Someone else should need it soon."
The soldier couldn't help biting his lip. "But, but others also need to make medicine. If I don't take it away, how can others use the medicine jar..."
Manbao said, "After boiling it, add water and boil it again. You will definitely need this recipe again later. If you are worried about forgetting it, write a number on the medicine jar to indicate that it is medicine number one. Later, I will tell you who should take medicine number one and who should take medicine number two..."
This way, the speed will be much faster.
Assistant doctors Qin and Luo understood what was said and wanted to do the same, but since it was their first time doing something like this, they were inevitably a bit flustered. They had only seen five patients when Zhou Man had already seen twelve, three of whom were still receiving acupuncture. She managed to remember the time well enough to check the pulse of one patient before telling the waiting soldier, "Give him a bowl of medicine number two and pour some rubbing solution to clean him."
Then go aside and remove the needle.
After removing the needle, I went to see the next patient...
Young General Gong stood at the door and watched for a long time, and found that she saw the most patients and employed the fewest staff, but she was always able to keep everything in order.
He then thought of Bai Shan, who was now beside Yang Heshu. He couldn't help but smile and turned to Yang Heshu and said, "Now I know why you admire Doctor Zhou so much. She is indeed amazing."
He added, "I used to think you were amazing. You were in charge of so many things. The people below you would be busy with just one or two things, but you were always able to keep things organized. Now it seems that smart people always have something in common."
Yang Heshu laughed and asked, "Is General Gong praising me or himself?"
General Gong laughed and said, "I am far behind you."
He is not even as good as Zhou Man who is in the room and Young Master Bai who is busy in the county government office.
Yang Heshu didn't argue with him about this. He turned around and said, "Let's go and check out the other camps."
The defenders of Xiazhou City are one of Yang Heshu's greatest reliances, so he cannot afford to lose.
Young General Gong naturally knew this, and went with Yang Heshu to investigate the situation in other camps.
Everyone was busy, and after two days, good news finally came out. In the other hospitals, especially in Hospital No. 1, the number of cured patients began to increase significantly.
The situation in the hospital shed was also gradually improving, at least the number of deaths per day was no longer rising sharply;
The better news is that the number of daily infections in the city has begun to decline, and outside the city, people who went south have begun to return to seek medical treatment, and people from other villages have also come to seek medical treatment together.
After discussing with officials from the prefecture and county, Yang Heshu began to build a medical tent outside the city, deliberately avoiding the official road and setting it up in the downwind direction.
As soon as the medical tent was built, it began to admit patients wandering outside the city. Manbao was ordered to take two medical assistants out of the city to take charge.
I didn't expect to meet Wu Xiang's family in the medical tent.
Manbao looked at his daughter, wrote a prescription and said, "She has already survived the most difficult time. I will prescribe her a few doses of medicine to make the rash go away."
Wu Xiang breathed a sigh of relief.
Bai Shanze was ordered to come here to take care of the newly built medical tent. The medical tent here relies entirely on the support of the government office, so the daily consumption of food and medicinal materials must be carefully calculated to avoid excessive waste or insufficient use and death.
The rice porridge that Bai Shan had people cook was not thick. Each person had two meals a day, one bowl of porridge each time. If they wanted more, they had to bring food from home to cook it.
See you around 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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