Chapter 188 Emergency Call

Any infectious disease once it occurs.

It is a challenge for hospitals.

People from the infectious disease department and the laboratory department soon came to the respiratory department, along with staff from the hospital infection control office and the medical department.

Everyone looked serious, wearing masks and fully armed, and quickly conducted a second examination on these patients.

Wait until the test reports of these patients come out.

There are currently 9 pneumonia patients in the respiratory department, 7 of whom have the same test results. In addition to the family of five, two other people have also had contact with these five people. One is a resident of the same community and the other is a classmate from the same school.

then.

That morning, the hospital immediately called the CDC administrator!

It means that a contagious and unknown pneumonia has been discovered.

At the same time.

It was during this period that the same scene happened simultaneously in many hospitals around the world!

Some are sudden collective infection incidents in nursing homes.

Some are sudden incidents of mass infection in schools.

There are also various densely populated public places such as vegetable markets, restaurants, concerts, etc.

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Su Tang and his group took a green train from Qinggang Town back home. They passed Qinghe City Station on the way and transferred to the high-speed train back to Shenzhen.

The group spent about 20 hours on the road.

When everyone came out of the subway station dragging their suitcases, they felt tired but also quite excited. Even their dark circles had a faint red glow, which scared the other passengers nearby. They looked horrified and instinctively dodged, avoiding the people from the Sixth Hospital.

Su Tang: “…………”

Everyone in the Sixth Academy: “…………”

Hey! They weren't sneezing in a hospital, so why were people looking at them as if they were looking at flu germs or rabies viruses?!

Isn't it just that everyone is talking about being a little bit excited?

The dean didn't care at all. He smiled like a Maitreya Buddha and said to everyone, "Thank you for your hard work in this national competition. So starting from today, everyone can take a three and a half day holiday and come back to work in the hospital next week! I will ask Secretary Cui to call the heads of your departments later."

"Dean, you can't do this! We won the first place in the national practice competition, and you give us three days off. Isn't it too much?" After the competition, the players spoke more confidently than before. Among them, a teammate with a more lively personality immediately said that three days was too short and needed other rewards to make up for the hard work of these days.

"Are you still trying to take advantage of the three-day holiday? Then just take two days." The dean smiled and remained unmoved.

"This is too much..." A group of people in the team wailed in unison: "How can you deduct vacation time?"

"Hahahaha." The dean was amused by everyone and immediately said cheerfully, "Okay, just three days. I've brought you out for such a long time, if you don't go back to work, the department director will come to me to make trouble. But as a reward, I can pay for you and everyone to go to a farm in the suburbs for a visit on the third day."

Dean: "Also, we agreed before that if you do well in the exam this time, your year-end bonus will be doubled. But you not only did well this time, but also did brilliantly, so this year-end bonus will be tripled! When the funding is in place next year, I will set up a national competition bonus in the hospital. Candidates who can still participate in the competition next year, don't let your guard down in the future!"

The bonus arrived and cheers broke out.

Everyone in the team was immediately satisfied. For office workers, there is nothing more enjoyable than having a bonus and a holiday.

Everyone agreed on a time and place to go to the farm house, and then took the bus home, dragging their suitcases.

Everyone is really exhausted these days, not to mention the 16 contestants, even Secretary Cui from the Academic Affairs Department and other accompanying personnel are extremely tired.

As soon as Su Tang returned home, she was greeted by Fang Guiping and Su Yanbang.

Seeing that their daughter had been away for more than half a month before returning home, Fang Guiping and his wife were amazed that Su Tang could win first place among so many hospitals and so many contestants across the country. They were also impressed that their daughter had lost so much weight in recent days that even her face had become a lot sharper.

Su Tang blinked: "…"

She touched her cheeks, which had become softer over the past few days because the organizers cooked supper for them every night, and was a little afraid to speak.

There is a kind of thinness called your mother thinks you are thin.

The family happily finished their lunch. After Su Tang simply washed up, Fang Guiping and her husband urged her to go to bed and have a rest.

Although it may seem like you are not doing anything when taking a long-distance train, the hassle of going back and forth is really tiring.

Su Tang didn’t get much rest last night at the high-speed rail station and on the high-speed rail.

She nodded, yawned, climbed into bed, and fell asleep.

When Su Tang was sleeping, faces flashed in her dream. There were the faces of the male and female protagonists of the novel, Su Wanwan and Song Zhehao, as well as Wei Yan, Secretary Zhao, Pan Yuhao, Ma Jun and others, as well as the faces of the contestants participating in the National Practice Competition. They switched back and forth in her dream in a nonsensical way, but Su Tang couldn't help but relax in her dream.

However, just as Su Tang was completely relaxed in her dream, her mind fell into darkness again...

The cell phone on the bedside table suddenly made a series of shrill ringtones!

"Jingle bells, jingle bells!——"

A shrill ring suddenly rang in the dark room. Muscle memory triggered Su Tang's conditioned reflex and he sat up instantly.

The bedside lamp was not on, but Su Tang had already reached out and grabbed the phone, quickly swiped open the screen and answered the call.

On the phone, Pan Yuhao's serious voice suddenly rang from the receiver and penetrated into Su Tang's ears along the phone signal, making her wake up instantly and turn on the bedside lamp.

Pan Yuhao: "Xiao Su, pack some clothes and come to the hospital! There's an emergency here in the hospital, and we need to transfer medical staff to the respiratory department and the infectious department! Our department needs to transfer two doctors and three nurses, so pack up and come to the hospital with me to the infectious department!"

"Okay, I'll be right there!" Su Tang was stunned, rubbed her cheeks hard, and quickly agreed.

In hospitals, almost all medical staff have their cell phones on call 24 hours a day.

Even if they are on holiday or taking a break in the early morning, as long as something happens in the hospital department, they will return to the hospital as soon as possible to treat the patient.

However, general internal medicine is the least popular department in the Sixth Hospital.

Su Tang had never enjoyed such treatment in the past few months, but her body's conditioning made her quickly put on her clothes and pack her backpack.

A glance at the clock on the bedroom wall—one in the morning.

Su Tang put on her backpack, opened the door with light steps, and fixed her eyes on the door that her parents had already closed.

Su Tang thought about it, took out a pen and paper, left a note in the living room, then walked lightly to open the door and headed out into the night.

It was so late, so she decided not to disturb them from resting.

Zhou Jianxin, who was sleeping in the small bedroom next to Su Tang, heard the movement in Su Tang's room almost immediately.

As Su Tang went out to work, she followed behind Su Tang and drove him home.

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The car was driving on the street in the early morning. Su Tang looked out the window at the bustling night lights in the city and at the pedestrians on both sides of the road, which were obviously much less than during the day. However, her thoughts flew to the hospital involuntarily and her brows were furrowed.

Public events, as the name suggests, are group events that occur on a large scale.

And since the respiratory department and infectious department needed manpower, it was not difficult for Su Tang to guess that there must have been an outbreak of an infectious disease related to respiratory diseases in the hospital!

Among all infectious diseases, there are different types, such as blood transmission, saliva transmission, contact transmission, and air transmission. Among them, the transmission methods related to respiratory diseases include air transmission, droplet transmission, aerosol transmission, etc.

Su Tang frowned. Since both the respiratory department and the infectious department needed staff, the emergency in the hospital must be serious and the number of patients must be large, or the hospital thought that a large number of patients would be coming soon. But since Pan Yuhao called her in the early morning, it must be the former - the number of patients in the hospital was already so large that the ecological balance of the respiratory department and the infectious department was broken.

"How could a large-scale infection suddenly occur in a big city like Shenzhen?" Su Tang was sitting in the car with tears in his eyes. He looked at the night lights outside the car window and his brows were furrowed even more tightly.

However, no matter what Su Tang thought or guessed, the car sped along the highway and soon arrived at the Sixth Hospital.

Su Tang got out of the car and looked up. In the early morning, many people were hurriedly getting out of the cars in the parking lot of the Sixth Hospital with bags on their backs.

Although most people looked unfamiliar, they did not recognize him.

But it was not difficult for Su Tang to guess that these people should be colleagues from other departments who were called to the infectious disease department and respiratory department like her.

After sighing for a moment, Su Tang ran towards the general internal medicine department with her bag on her back, looking for Pan Yuhao and others to go to the infectious disease department together.

However, this time, as a bodyguard, Zhou Jianxin could not go to the infectious disease department with Su Tang.

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Department of Infectious Diseases, Sixth Hospital.

At this time, the infection department was brightly lit, and medical staff were walking back and forth, some registering patients' conditions and home addresses, and some arranging beds for patients. Some of them were sent in on wheelchairs, with difficulty breathing and pale faces. The medical staff beside them were exhausted, pushing the wheelchair, giving oxygen, and comforting the patients, asking them to calm down as much as possible, take a deep breath, and not panic.

"How is it? How many patients are there now?" Director Hou of the infectious department quickly checked the symptoms of the patients with severe pneumonia and directed the doctors in the department to rescue them, while asking the department's chief resident about the department's current situation.

"Our department has now admitted 38 patients with the new pneumonia, 12 of whom came to our hospital over the past three days. The other 26 were found to be positive after we notified the CDC, which sent people to the nursing home for examination. They were admitted overnight. Among these 38 people, there were 13 severe patients with difficulty breathing. Among the remaining 25, 19 were of ordinary grade, and 6 were in milder conditions." The chief resident replied.

"However..." The chief hospitalist paused and said in a heavy tone: "This new pneumonia is developing very rapidly, and we have never seen this virus before, and we can't find a specific medicine. In addition, these patients are older, and many of them already have underlying diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. I am worried that before long, severe patients may develop into critical patients, and ordinary patients may also develop into severe patients."

Director Hou flipped through the two documents in his hand, and his brows were furrowed. He saw an elderly patient who was admitted to the hospital three days ago but developed severe pneumonia from common pneumonia.

If they were not in the hospital at this time, Director Hou would be so annoyed that he would want to take out his lighter and light a cigarette!

How did such a large-scale infectious incident suddenly occur?

Three days ago, two pneumonia patients came to the hospital together, which was not a big deal. But on the second and third days, nine pneumonia patients of the same type came one after another, and they were all employees and elderly people from Huatian Nursing Home next door. The respiratory department immediately became alert, called their infectious disease department, and immediately reported it to the district CDC.

After receiving the news, the district CDC attached great importance to it and immediately reported it to the city. They called someone to screen all employees and elderly people in Huatian Nursing Home, inquired about the patients' specific conditions, and retrieved the city's surveillance videos to find people who had come into contact with them during these days.

Unexpectedly, the infected person who came into contact with the nursing home staff and caused the staff to be infected and then spread the virus to everyone in the nursing home has not been discovered yet, and the nursing home has screened 26 more people. Now all of them were sent to the infectious disease department by the CDC. The current infectious disease department has become an iron bucket that only allows entry but not exit.

The higher-ups issued a message that no one could leave the infectious department until the patients recovered. In addition, the hospital was required to make every effort to treat the infected patients and to completely eradicate this new type of pneumonia that had never been seen before.

“Oh…” Director Hou’s eyebrows wrinkled together. Could this new type of pneumonia that infected so many patients at once really be completely wiped out in his small infectious department?

There is an old saying: By the time you find one cockroach in your room, there are already hundreds of cockroaches in your house.

That is to say, although only 38 cases have been detected in Huatian Nursing Home, there are likely hundreds or even thousands of infected people in the entire Shenzhen city and even in the Huatian community.

Director Hou felt his scalp tingling just thinking about it.

Not to mention that this new type of pneumonia seems to be developing very rapidly. Coupled with the fact that these elderly people already have some health problems, Director Hou suspects that there is a high possibility that a patient will die in their department this time.

However, he didn't dare to say this, nor did he dare to speak. He just listened to the chief resident's report and sighed again.

Director Hou took a deep breath, tried to cheer himself up, and instructed: "Since the prescription for the first three days was not very effective for the patient, then we will re-adjust the plan today. I will write you a list and use the best imported drugs for treatment."

suddenly--

Just as Director Hou lifted his legs and walked out of the ward to see the next patient.

A patient who was pushed in from the door of the infectious department was breathing oxygen while struggling in pain with his eyes wide open and his hands covering his neck!

“Hehehe——!”

The patient opened his mouth, breathed rapidly, and was in great pain!

Su Tang followed Pan Yuhao and others, and as soon as she entered the room, she saw several doctors and nurses from the infectious department rescuing a patient with difficulty breathing. Everyone in the corridor was anxious and serious, and the noisy footsteps almost became the main theme of the infectious department! Even when Su Tang and others arrived at the infectious department, no one came up to hand over to them immediately.

Su Tang, Pan Yuhao and others frowned when they saw this.