"Within half an hour, everything will be evacuated." At 9:30 p.m. on July 21, doctors from the He Hospital District of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University (hereinafter referred to as the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University) informed that all wards could not leave patients.
After the water and power outage due to heavy rain on July 20, Zhengda First Affiliated Hospital began to arrange for patients to be transferred, and in one day, the ward was basically vacated. The floor was pitch black, and doctors checked the wards one by one with flashlights.
Zheng Da Yi Hospital, known as "Asia's largest hospital", underwent a "big shift" in a race against the clock in heavy rain. According to Henan Daily, at about 6:30 a.m. on July 22, the relevant person in charge of the hospital revealed that the patients in the River Hospital Area of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengda University were basically transferred.
On the afternoon of July 21, the medical staff of zhengda first affiliated hospital (river hospital area) arranged for patients in the emergency room to be transferred. Beijing News reporter Nie Hui photographed
Futons are used as stretchers to transport patients to hospitals
The forecast rainstorm did not return, but there was still intermittent rainfall in Zhengzhou. Due to the accumulation of water, the hospital is full of mud, and the emergency repair personnel are pumping water to clean the road surface, but it is still difficult to keep the road clean.
At 11:00 a.m. on July 21, in the river hospital area of zhengda first affiliated hospital, fire rescue vehicles, communication support vehicles, diesel power generation equipment, and engineering rescue vehicles were distributed in an orderly manner, and medical care, property, security, patients and families, everyone looked solemn and silently passed through.
At 3 p.m., Xie Chunli stood in front of the ward building and looked around, her suitcases and clothes piled up in the muddy water at her feet.
Just after sending her husband to the bus for transfer, Xie Chunli packed her bags and fell into a brief dazedness. Subways and buses are suspended, online ride-hailing services are suspended, and private cars cannot be rented regardless of price. Xie Chunli had no idea and stood in the rain waiting for the hospital's arrangements.
After settling her husband, Xie Chunli came out of the panic of the previous day. The husband needed a kidney transplant due to uremia and waited for three years to wait for a suitable kidney source. On the afternoon of July 20, Xie Chunli sent her husband to the operating room and watched the rain outside the door to pass the time. At about 5 p.m., the lights in the hospital corridor suddenly went out and the hospital lost power.
Xie Chunli knew that there was emergency lighting in the operating room, or was worried about the change in the operation. "I'm worried that I won't be able to do half the surgery." Xie Chunli waited at the door for the doctor to come out.
Emergency lighting was activated in the operating room, and the doctor successfully completed the operation. The operating room is on the third floor, the ward is on the 19th floor, the elevator cannot be used due to power outages, Xie Chunli and the doctor who just got off the operating table, take the fire passage, and force her husband to carry her husband to the ward on a stretcher.
There was no water and no electricity, and the mobile phone could not be connected, Xie Chunli sat by the bedside all night, worried that her husband had just finished surgery and had an adverse reaction, worried about the emergency in the hospital.
At about 2:30 p.m. on July 21, the hospital notified the critically ill patients to be transferred to the East Campus for continued treatment. Xie Chunli helped her husband down the stairs from the fire escape, "Just after the operation, I can't walk, and I can't move on my back." ”
There is no lighting in the fire escape, and the stairs under the feet can only be seen by the cell phone lights of the patient's family. The hallway was mixed with the smell of disinfectant water and sweat, and it was full of patients and family members who went up and down the stairs, hurried but orderly. When a stretcher or wheelchair passes, the person next to you takes the initiative to help lift it. Stretchers and wheelchairs slowly descended the stairs in the crowd.
A large number of patients are transferred to the hospital, and there are insufficient stretchers in the hospital. The doctor disassembled the bed and made a stretcher with a stainless steel bed board, "heavy, but stronger than nothing." To transfer the patient with a slightly milder condition, the doctor used a futon as a stretcher to carry the patient downstairs.
Ward 2 is the tallest 28 storeys, and the orthopedic department is concentrated on the 19th to 21st floors, which is also the department that needs a stretcher or wheelchair the most. The ability of the patient to accompany the family is limited, and the doctors and nurses help to take the patient downstairs.
The corridors are dark and sweltering, and on foot up to the 20th floor, middle-aged men also need to stop and rest a few times. A female orthopedic doctor carried the patient upstairs and sat breathlessly on the damp staircase to rest, "Six trips, can't move." ”
Carry the stretcher downstairs, try to keep the patient lying flat, the front two people hold the handrail backwards downstairs, a little carelessness is easy to fall, the back two people can only bend down to reduce the height of the stretcher. Transporting patients in narrow fire escapes, it is difficult to turn around, and if you are not careful at the corner, you will hit a wall or railing.
It is more difficult to carry the patient with a soft futon of material. Although the futon is lighter, it is inconvenient to lift, and someone needs to stand in the middle to support the bottom. Every time you descend two or three floors, you need to stop and rest for a while.
At about 5 p.m. on the 21st, Chen Zhihua, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gynecology, carried the patient to stand in front of the hospital, waiting for the transfer vehicle. She and three other doctors stood by the side of the road carrying the patient and did not put it down. The patient's husband stood in the middle to support the bottom still could not stop the patient from falling, and the person carrying the futon was more difficult, Chen Zhihua arched his body and tightened the corner of the futon, and his fingers were red.
Sending the patient to the car, Chen Zhihua instructed the driver to send the patient to the designated department, and then ran in the muddy water and turned back to the ward. Transporting patients back and forth in muddy water, Chen Zhihua's pants and back were splashed with mud spots.
According to people's daily news, as of 21:00 on the 21st, more than 600 seriously ill patients have been transferred.
On the afternoon of July 21, zhengda first affiliated hospital (river hospital district) arranged for patients to be transferred. Due to insufficient stretchers, medical staff used bedding as stretchers to transport patients. Beijing News reporter Nie Hui photographed
Doctors bring food from home and distribute it to patients
On the afternoon of July 21, zhengda first affiliated hospital posted a notice that outpatient emergency business was suspended, and seriously ill patients were transferred to the east branch of Zhengda first affiliated hospital. The outpatient and emergency rooms are full of patients, waiting for relatives and friends to drive to pick them up.
The hospital was out of water, and the water in the shop at the door was sold out. Li Zhifeng went out at 11 a.m. and ran to a store two kilometers away to buy yogurt and mineral water for his daughter. On the morning of the 20th, Li Zhifeng's daughter had just completed otological surgery and was hospitalized for observation.
Before departing from his hometown, Li Zhifeng had noticed that Zhengzhou would usher in a period of heavy rainfall. He deliberately parked the car on the high ground against the wall in the courtyard of the hotel. But the intensity of the rainfall still far exceeded Li Zhifeng's expectations.
At 2 p.m. on July 20, Li Zhifeng stood under the corridor in front of the ward building, watching the rain outside getting denser and denser, and hesitating whether to move the car to the green pool in the courtyard of the hotel.
The time of the video taken by Li Zhifeng showed that at 4:09 p.m. on July 20, the water in the hospital had just passed the ankle. At 4:16, Li Zhifeng took a video of a middle-aged woman walking with an umbrella in the water, which had reached her waist. "Umbrellas are useless, and the rain is as good as pouring down." Li Zhifeng recalled that before five o'clock, the water flooded the steps under the corridor of the hospital, and the hall of the ward building began to accumulate water.
After the rainstorm, the power of Zhengda First Affiliated Hospital was cut off overnight, and the power supply of some high-rise wards was restored at 5 a.m. on the 21st. Li Zhifeng believes that the examination equipment in the basement is soaked in water, and only seriously ill patients need to be transferred, and his daughter can be hospitalized with peace of mind.
Until three o'clock in the afternoon, Li Zhifeng climbed up to the eighth floor with mineral water milk and listened to the family members of the patients who went downstairs, and the patients were all discharged.
Li Zhifeng began to panic. The car was parked in the hotel and was soaked, and the water filled the trunk, and the engine could not be started. Temporarily discharged from the hospital, Leaving Li Zhifeng unprepared. Even if you let a friend pick you up from your hometown, you have to wait until the evening to get to Zhengzhou.
Xie Lei and his wife sat in front of the door of Zheng Dayi's attached courtyard, the packages picked up by the quilt were piled up at their feet, and he sat on the small horse that his wife carried with him on the bed. Xie Lei went from Xinyang to Zhengda First Affiliated Hospital for kidney stone surgery, and delayed the operation due to a hydroneal effusion.
Xie Lei suffers from a variety of diseases, cerebral hemorrhage, lumbar disc herniation, and inability to move. His brother drove him to the hospital, the car was flooded in the parking lot, and Xie Lei could only sit outside the hospital, waiting for his friend to pick him up in Zhengzhou.
Wang Zhengbin, director of the emergency department, said that more than a dozen mild patients who could have been discharged from the hospital could not leave due to communication and traffic paralysis. He brought some food from home, "barely keeping everyone from panicking." ”
The patient's family members use a private car to help with the transport
At 8 p.m. on July 21, it began to rain again in Zhengzhou. With the lights of the ambulance transporting the patients illuminated, the hospital nurse led the transferred patients to the hospital entrance. Seriously ill patients are transferred to the hospital, and the patient's family and mild patients make their own arrangements.
Jia Baobang, a 78-year-old man who came to the hospital to treat cervical spondylosis, accompanied him in the hospital. On the 21st, the two went through the formalities and went out to find a hotel.
The two walked three or four intersections to find a hotel with an empty room, but the room was too high and the elevator stopped, so they had to give up. The two returned to the hospital's covered bridge again to lay a floor and wait for dawn to find a way.
Tian Mengru, 27, feels the kindness of the people around her. Tian Mengru teaches Chinese at a junior high school in Pingdingshan City, and on the morning of July 20, she underwent minimally invasive surgery at the Zhengda First Affiliated Hospital due to a knee injury. The hospital was suddenly hit by heavy rain, and the doctor considered that Tian Mengru only needed to recuperate after the operation, and suggested that she be discharged from the hospital and go home.
Tian Mengru could not stand, and could only sit on the suitcase, wearing a towel to avoid the rain and keep warm. My cousin didn't rent a car on several trips around the hospital, and the rooms near the hospital were already full. A temporary volunteer student near the hospital helped transfer patients carry things and helped Tian Mengru contact the vehicle.
A family member of a patient passed by and asked them where they were going and if they used a car. "Use and use, go anywhere, as long as you can take us out." The owner said there was no guarantee where to find the hotel, but was willing to take them to the car and ask around. The owner of the car helped Tian Mengru sit well in the car, waded through the stagnant water at the intersection, and took her out of the hospital.
According to people's daily news, under the coordination of the Henan Provincial Health Commission and other relevant parties, ambulances from cities and sister hospitals throughout the province, and even buses and private cars, have joined the transfer team.
At present, the icu ward of the First Affiliated Hospital of ZhengDa has restored power supply, and most of the outpatient and inpatient buildings have resumed electricity. There are power generation vehicles and mobile communication vehicles supported by various departments and units on the site, which ensure the basic needs of the hospital.
"There are many patients and many problems, but we will definitely overcome the difficulties." Liu Zhangsuo, president of the Zheng University First Affiliated Hospital, said.
Beijing News reporter Nie Hui
Edited by Yuan Guoli
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