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2020-03-31 15:00
The new crown epidemic in Europe continued, with the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Italy exceeding 100,000 on the 30th, and the number of deaths in France exceeded 3,000. In Germany, the number of confirmed cases on the 30th has increased to 57,298, and 455 deaths have occurred. In the hardest-hit area of North Rhine-Westphalia, there is a young Chinese doctor Li Lan on the front line of the fight against the epidemic. Since joining the Neufranschaftscher Universitat Neue Rhein in Duisburg in 2017, Li Lan has been working in neurosurgery for two years. With the intensification of the epidemic, all the doctors on staff in the hospital need two people to form an emergency team for 24 hours on standby, and Li Lan's "all-weather duty" can be up to 7 times a month. Watch the news the News reporter had a video call with Dr. Lee on duty.
As the designated testing point for the new crown, the Rhine-Evangelical Hospital in Duisburg has set up an isolation area for new crown patients, and all suspected personnel who come to check take special channels to prevent cross-infection. According to Li Lan, more than 80% of the new crown pneumonia patients have mild symptoms, and the hospital has now treated 10 seriously ill patients, 4 of whom need ventilators, and 2 cases died last week. The coronavirus is still very new to countries around the world, as is Li Lan and her colleagues, some patients often start with atypical symptoms and are easily confused with other diseases.
In Li Lan's view, Germany's medical system is the first in European countries, especially equipped with up to 28,000 intensive care beds, which is three times the capacity of Italy to receive treatment, and can cope with the increase in new crown patients, but a big problem is the extreme lack of protective materials including masks, protective clothing, gloves, goggles. Li Lan said, "In the beginning, every time we treated a new coronavirus patient, we had to change into another set of new clothing, and now slowly the resources are not enough, the protective clothing is not enough, the mask is also very small, we need the real-name system to get 3M, like the domestic N95 mask." ”
In the coming April, Li Lan was going to have a long-awaited wedding, but her fiancé, who is also a doctor, has not seen each other for a while to avoid cross-infection in order to avoid cross-infection.
On February 25 this year, starting with a carnival in Heinsberg County, North Rhine-Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia quickly became the "epicenter" of the epidemic in Germany. As of Monday (30th), there were more than 12,000 cases of COVID-19 in North Rhine-Westphalia. The county magistrate, Push, sent a direct plea to China a week ago, hoping that China would provide medical supplies such as masks and protective clothing. Pushh noted at the time that masks and protective clothing in heinsberg County, which he administered, were only enough for a few days. In view of this, there are also many enterprises in Germany that have transformed the production of medical protective equipment such as masks, involving underwear manufacturers, auto parts suppliers, etc.
(Look at the news Knows reporter: Chen Bin Editor: Hu Wanting)