Everyone's in the same boat: Inside a private Wuhan hospital taking on coronavirus
What kept Su Xi, director of the Wuhan Asia General Hospital, up at night amid the coronavirus pandemic is a life-or-death decision: with limited hospital beds, who to keep and who to let go?
When the coronavirus struck Wuhan in early January, the hospital, with 1,100 beds and clean, spacious surgery rooms, became a war zone. Patients with severe breathing problems were flooding the wards, and a growing number of medical professionals at the hospital developed symptoms.
"Because we cannot even spare one bed, I have to be personally in charge of deciding who to keep at the hospital, and who to send back home for quarantine," Su said in an interview with CGTN. Every day, it is a tough decision, and to maximize the value of beds, only those with severe symptoms could stay.
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