Chapter 52
Medical staff began to organize physical examinations for people in the community, and the person in charge of the team went directly to Gu Zhengchu to inquire about the situation.
After listening to them repeat what happened in the morning, the person in charge expressed his approval.
Praise them for being vigilant and quick in responding, and for being able to report such news to the town in a timely manner.
If they can cut off the source of the infectious disease, they will have made a huge contribution to the people of the entire town and the entire region.
Such words of praise had no motivating effect on the Shen family at this time, and they were feeling uneasy.
What is more worrying is to what extent the illness of the residents in the community has developed?
Everyone was curious at first when they saw people from the town hospital coming to give physical examinations to people in the community.
But after the first patient was diagnosed and the old man who had fainted due to heatstroke was taken to the new building for isolation by the property management, people began to panic.
Medical staff immediately began to inform everyone about the harmfulness of the disease and the prevention measures.
At the same time, medical staff, under the guidance of property staff, began to disinfect the house where the elderly had lived.
At this time, the crowd was already starting to get a little restless.
Especially those who had lived in the same house with the elderly became the target of everyone's vigilance almost instantly.
The people around them, including those they used to have a good relationship with, now wanted to stay away from them immediately.
Soon, the second case, the third case...
As more and more patients were found, people in the town hospital began to pay great attention to it.
Those who were undergoing physical examinations were re-divided into teams, all grouped according to their residence.
Once a case is discovered in a house, in addition to the people living together being taken away for another round of re-examination, the residence will immediately be disinfected by medical staff and will also be temporarily closed.
After the twentieth patient was discovered, the doctors at the town hospital held a small meeting, and soon someone left on a bicycle.
By this time, the panic in the community had reached a new level.
In fact, during this period, the staff of the town hospital has been explaining to everyone the causes and treatment of hepatitis A.
Tell people that the origin of this disease is basically caused by poor hygiene.
Knowing that the drinking water source for residents in the community now basically all comes from the small river near the door, the doctors went to fetch some water for testing.
Then we preliminarily determined that the water source was not polluted and was still safe at the moment.
Now that water pollution had been ruled out, the doctors breathed a sigh of relief.
This basically means that the source of the pollution must be from within the community, and that some residents may have been infected before but were not detected.
Then after the earthquake, everyone lived together.
Also, because of drought and water shortage, more people live in the house and the hygiene in the house cannot be guaranteed, which leads to cross infection.
Although the real source of the infection has not yet been found, at least it can be confirmed that the places where people gather around the community have not been affected and the disease has not yet broken out.
The medical staff can feel thankful, but the people in the community don’t think so.
What does it have to do with you whether people outside get sick or not?
The problem now is that someone in the community is sick, and I may not be able to escape it!
Although the doctor kept telling everyone that this disease was not a malignant infectious disease and that there were medicines to treat it, he even gave the sick people an IV drip on the spot.
But the doctor also said that this disease has an incubation period!
In other words, not getting sick now does not mean that you will not get sick in the future.
The infectious period is still three to four weeks.
The doctor clearly pointed out that once it is confirmed that you are sick, whether you have developed the disease or not, you must be isolated for one month as long as you are in the contagious period!
During this month, you cannot leave the community, or even leave the designated isolation area.
What is the concept?
This means that if you cannot go out to work for a month, you will not be able to earn food!
Everyone asked the medical staff whether the government would provide meals during the quarantine period.
But no one can give a definite answer to this question at this time.
After all, the people who came were doctors and nurses from the town hospital, and they had no right to make promises on behalf of the government.
Although the doctors repeatedly explained that they had sent people to notify the town government and would receive a reply soon, many people still panicked.
Let’s not talk about whether the town’s current capacity can provide food and drink for so many patients. Even if it can—
We have all seen the food rations provided for the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled. They can only ensure that they will not starve to death, but it is impossible to eat enough or save some money from them!
But this time, it was discovered that not all those who were sick were elderly!
There are also many laborers at home.
Even with full labor force, many people are still outside and have not returned, and no symptoms have been found so far.
But those women and teenage children who are quarantined, isn't one of them equivalent to several people at home?
They pick up trash, sell trash, and grow vegetables every day... Not only is the work heavy, but the income is enough to earn enough to support half of the family's food!
What will happen to their families now that these people are locked up?
The crowd was restless.
The person who went to the town government to report came back.
He was accompanied by a working group sent by the government and ten security guards who were dispatched from nowhere.
After the working group members came in, they had a brief exchange with the doctors, and then the group quickly split into several parts.
Some people took out the disinfectant powder and tools they brought and started to carry out comprehensive disinfection of the community.
In addition to the house where the patient is found, people will also enter other houses to direct the residents and property people to professionally dispose of the garbage and untreated waste in the house.
Others simply set up a cordon at the entrance of the community, closed the community, and temporarily stopped people from going out.
Almost at the same time as the working group members came back were those who had been recalled from working outside.
These people were called back while they were working.
They rushed back covered in sweat and mud, and before they entered the yard they saw the cordon at the gate, and they immediately felt unwell.
I've only been out for less than a day, why does it feel like the weather has changed?!
After these people came back, they were immediately organized for examination, and the results came out quickly, and three cases were found among them.
Then the three young men were immediately taken away by the doctor and sent to the isolation area for quarantine.
This situation was like a drop of water falling into a hot oil pan, and everyone in the community was shocked!
Isn't this killing people?
All the workers are also quarantined, what will the family eat? !
One month, one month without being able to go out, are you going to let your whole family starve to death? !
As an old man collapsed on the ground and cried, all kinds of crying, shouting, and cursing followed, and the whole community fell into unprecedented chaos...
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