"I took a taxi to the nucleic acid collection point that morning, and the driver learned that I was a medical worker and insisted that I be sent to a breakfast restaurant near the collection point first. He said that the breakfast at that house was delicious, and I had to eat well before I went to work, which was very warm at the time. On October 21, recalling the intensive nucleic acid collection work in these days, this incident made Hu Yingying, a nurse at Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy Hospital, remember it vividly.
"Lei Juanjuan, in place! Ma Xing, in place! High call, in place! On the evening of October 18, in the WeChat group of the "full nucleic acid collection team" of Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy Hospital, medical staff relayed reports and responded to the emergency nucleic acid collection task. "At about 7:30 p.m. that night, I had just left work and was eating at home when I suddenly received a notice of an emergency assembly." Hu Yingying said. She immediately put down the dishes, packed up her things, and according to the arrangement table in the WeChat group, she hurried to the nucleic acid collection point in Zhongnan Lu Province on Expo Avenue in 20 minutes.
"At that time, the on-site staff had already set up a shed, and nearly 100 citizens lined up to receive nucleic acid testing." Prepare for disinfection, check information, distribute test tubes, collect, transfer samples for collection... At 8 o'clock that night, 56 medical staff from Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy Hospital like Hu Yingying quickly entered the working state in groups of four.
The cold weather at night, coupled with the fact that every time the nucleic acid was collected, the hands were disinfected with alcohol, and the fingers of Hu Yingying and her colleagues became a little stiff. "Gradually, when we took the test tubes, it became apparent that our hands were not as flexible as they had just begun." But everyone always maintained a highly stressful work state, and no one complained. That night, the medical staff at the nucleic acid collection point worked until 2 a.m., with an average of nearly 1,000 nucleic acid collections per person.
It is reported that since the 18th, Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy Hospital has sent a total of 210 medical staff, divided into 34 groups, to 25 nucleic acid collection points to carry out work. "We are always ready and available!" Nurse Chang Jie received the notice of the collection task on the 19th and has been working continuously for 4 days at the nucleic acid collection point in Longhu Tianjie. Nucleic acid collection sites start sampling from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day. "Each of us has an average of nearly 10 hours of nucleic acid collection a day." Chang Jie said.
(Text/Reporter Zhang Lina Photo/Correspondent Feng Meiying Gao Yayu)