(Translation of an article taken from the special program of Nurses of the Beijing Youan Hospital)
The Beijing Youan Hospital is one of the hospitals designed for the diagnosis and control of the COVID-19. After the outbreak, the medical staff has been here fighting against the epidemic.
The nurses of the hospital are fighting bravely in on the frontline with professionalism and dedication. Their families are supporting them from home. The following story was made for reporter Li Ling: “The fight against the epidemic takes the extraordinary of us”
Reporter: Zhang Lili is the Vide Director of the Nursing Department of the Beijing Youan Hospital. After the outbreak of the COVID-19, this hospital became one of the designated hospitals for the treatment of COVID-10.
Zhang Lili: After our country announced the epidemic, our hospital has already been designated for the treatment of sudden and new infections diseases. Nowadays, there are three hospitals of its kind: the Youan Hospital, the Ditan Hospital and the 5th Medical Center.
Many of these new infectious diseases have been diagnosed and treated here. Some examples of this are the previous SARS, the H5N1, and the H1N1/09. Since those days we have been worked hard to be one of the specialized hospitals in this kind of treatment. So, we are talking about professional knowledge here. Soon after the outbreak, we were ready with preliminary arrangements and basic work in early stages.
Reporter: Zhang Lili is responsible for the arrangement and staff management in the Youan Hospital.
Zhang Lili: We received our first patient in January 21 at 2pm. Afterwards, the head nurses and deputy head nurses held a meeting. We wanted to see how prepared we were to fight the epidemic, and we found out that we were ready. In half an hour, 37 nurses signed up, after the news spread, we received more than 100 volunteers. Within three or four days, all the nurses in the hospital were registered as volunteers, even if at that time nobody knew for certain the risk of the epidemic.
