Xunzhuo Town, located in the middle of Yingde City, Qingyuan, Guangdong, is located on the edge of the Lianjiang River, a tributary of the Beijiang River, due to its low-lying terrain, and was largely flooded in the flood of the previous two days. However, a local hospital in the depths of the flood has been operating in an orderly manner for the past few days, waiting to receive patients. Let's walk into this isolated island hospital in the middle of the flood peak.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, although the waterlogging level in Xunzhuo Town had decreased slightly compared with last night, the water in one of the polder towns in Xunzhuo Town was still nearly 2 meters deep in the deepest part of the main road. Rescuers received information that a little girl had a high fever of nearly 40 degrees Celsius during the flood and needed urgent treatment.
Wading through the water to search for him, he finally picked up the child with a high fever and the anxious mother.
Just when we thought we were going to transfer the little girl to a hospital outside the flood water, the assault boat unexpectedly turned into a hospital that was deep in the flood water. Paramedics were already waiting at the top of the stairs.
Hunzhuo Hospital, the only second-class hospital in the town of 50,000 permanent residents, was home to more than 100 inpatients when floodwaters almost submerged the first floor. It's just that the outpatient desk, pharmacy, orthopedic outpatient and other departments on the first floor have been moved to the second floor.
Emergency Physician Deng Xinxi: They are all in emergency 24 hours a day. The doctors and nurses in the hospital are basically here and stick to their posts. We have arranged for them to stay here 24 hours a day.
The first floor was flooded, and the outpatient clinic here became busier. In less than an hour at the hospital, patients from the vicinity were still being transported here by assault boats - which also means that the number of inpatients here is still increasing.
Wan Shifeng, vice president of Xunzhuo Hospital: Our emergency department is the last to be transferred, because we can't cut off the command task of 120, and we must ensure that we can receive patients anytime and anywhere. Eventually, the water had reached one foot of our reception room wall, and we moved the emergency department to the second floor.
All the medicines were moved to the second floor long before the floods, and a few square tables, carefully sorted and packed with medicines, became the temporary pharmacy of this hospital.
Outside the window was waist-deep floodwater, mixed with the constant roar of assault boats and the sound of splashing. And in this town hospital, which is deep in the center of the flood, it seems a little calm.
In the pediatric ward on the second floor, through the dimly lit corridor where the lights were temporarily turned off to save electricity, we saw again the little girl with a high fever who had just been brought in by the assault boat.
Mother of the girl with fever: I haven't eaten for most of the day, let's see if there is any porridge.
Liu Yanxia, Director of the Department of Pediatrics of Xunzhuo Hospital: We have porridge and will send it over later.
Reporter: Will there be food at noon?
Liu Yanxia, Director of Pediatrics at Hunzhuo Hospital: No, we make the porridge ourselves, and the rice is the hospital's meal.
After taking the medicine, the little girl's fever quickly subsided. When our dinghy left the hospital, we happened to meet an elderly man who was also transported here by assault boat. Two nurses were already waiting at the half-submerged staircase, looking back, the hospital was always busy in the floodwaters.
(Source: CCTV News)
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