Yesterday, Professor Guo Shuzhong had just experienced the most anxious and worst day of his career.
Written by | Tian Dongliang
Source | "Medical Community" public account
"I just received the notice and my superiors agreed that I could operate on these children at Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital." As the director of the Plastic Surgery Department of Xi'an International Medical Center, on the morning of January 14, Professor Guo Shuzhong posted on Weibo to report this "good news".
Yesterday, Professor Guo Shuzhong had just experienced the most anxious and worst day of his career. Because he hurried to operate on patients with microtia every day, he suddenly received a notice that the hospital was suspended for three months for rectification, and he was "banned from the knife".
That evening, Professor Guo Shuzhong sent another Weibo post describing his anxious mood and the difficulties he faced for patients. His microblog immediately attracted tens of thousands of retweets and attention.
Professor Guo Shuzhong posted it on Weibo
Photo of a child with Microtia waiting for his second surgery
China adds about 2500 patients with congenital microtia every year, and reconstructing an ear is the only option for these children to become normal people, while there are not many doctors in China who can do ear reconstruction surgery, and Professor Guo Shuzhong is the plastic surgery specialist who does the most ear reconstruction surgery in the world. Most of the 117 children who have undergone a phase of dilation implantation and water injection are more than three months old, and if they are delayed any longer, the children may rupture and become infected.
"I am more famous for doing ear, there are about 10,000 patients in China are waiting for me to do it, many parents of children want me to live a little longer, if you don't let me do surgery for three months, you say that you are not in a hurry?" Professor Guo Shuzhong said, "Under normal circumstances, I can do about 120 units a month, and I can do more than 300 units in three months. ”
Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Xi'an, Professor Guo Shuzhong has not stopped surgery. "I'm older, the front line of epidemic prevention doesn't want me, I honestly do surgery in the hospital, we are a private hospital, thinking that the more difficult the time, the more we have to consider patients, and I can accumulate more patient reputation, so I work harder, who knows what happened."
On the morning of January 13, the Xi'an Municipal Health Commission issued a "Notice on the Handling of Xi'an High-tech Hospital and Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital", both of which were punished with punishments such as "delaying the rescue and diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients, causing widespread concern in public opinion, and having a bad social impact".
Because of the delay in patient treatment, the two large hospitals will not accept patients for three months, and in the context of the epidemic in Xi'an, which is still continuing and medical resources are tight, the results of such treatment make many netizens unable to understand.
The Xi'an Health Commission also quickly realized this problem, and then issued a notice on the "Work Plan for Ensuring Normal Medical Treatment for the Masses During the Closure of Two Hospitals in the High-tech Zone", designating 9 tertiary hospitals under the municipal government to support 9 community health service centers (or township health centers) in the high-tech zone.
After Professor Guo Shuzhong disclosed his anxiety and the plight of patients online, under the "widespread concern of public opinion", the Xi'an Health Commission gave Professor Guo the green light and agreed to continue to operate on the children in Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital.
But what about the other departments? Are there no patients waiting for treatment?
During the period of hospital closure and rectification, according to the "medical community", medical staff must concentrate on learning medical record writing, medical rules and regulations in the hospital. As the director of the department, Professor Guo Shuzhong said that these things can be learned in a few days, and he will arrange for everyone to study business later. "Three months is a precious professional life for every medical staff, and it would be a pity if it was wasted."
During the closure of Xi'an International Medical Center, the hospital still has many medical staff still fighting in the front line of epidemic prevention and control and treatment in Xi'an, and after the outbreak of the epidemic in Xi'an, the hospital has dispatched many medical staff to support the designated treatment hospital and nucleic acid testing point for new crown patients.
A doctor at Xi'an International Medical Emergency Center has not updated his Weibo information for three weeks since he entered the designated hospital of COVID-19 to participate in the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the designated hospital of the new crown on December 20, 2021. After learning the news that his hospital was suspended yesterday, he sent a Weibo message saying that he was "five tastes and miscellaneous chen". He wrote:
Watching patients get better day by day, more and more patients are discharged, I believe that with the joint efforts of all medical care, Xi'an will restore the hustle and bustle of the past, to today's hospital closure and rectification, still contributing their own strength, no matter what, I hope that Xi'an is getting better and better, like this and such unsatisfactory things will no longer happen, really can achieve a dignified life for patients, so that doctors have a dignified work.
Although it is a private hospital, Xi'an International Medical Center is not lagging behind public hospitals in its enthusiasm for participating in the fight against the epidemic. During the Wuhan epidemic in 2020, Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital chartered a flight to send 212 medical staff to Wuhan on February 3, 2020, and the hospital later said that it gave the hardest "scales" to Wuhan. Xi'an International Medical Center has 6 batches of 266 medical staff to support Wuhan, and has taken over the critical care wards of Wuhan Eighth Hospital and Suizhou Central Hospital.
On the afternoon of March 24, 2020, the chartered plane of the medical staff of Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital landed in Xi'an, and two high-power fire trucks violently spewed out two columns of clear spring water to wash the dust for the white-clad soldiers who went out on the expedition.
According to the latest information released by Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, the hospital currently has 35 batches of more than 4,000 medical staff, a total of 2.7 million+ nucleic acid sampling tasks, in addition to more than 400 elite soldiers selected to go to two new crown designated hospitals.
Only this time, when the epidemic in Xi'an dissipated, the medical staff of Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital who supported the frontline of the fight against the epidemic returned to the hospital, not only would there be no longer the welcome of the middle road, but also the hospital that would be suspended and reflective learning.
Why does such a hospital, which is in the front of the epidemic, "delay the rescue and diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients" occur?
On January 13, Xi'an International Medical Center issued an "apology letter" in which it explained the reasons for "delaying the rescue and diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients": during the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the relevant epidemic prevention policies were mechanically implemented before the hospital.
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