Translated by: Wu Xia
Since the outbreak, medical staff at Wuhan University Renmin Hospital and Zhongnan Hospital have continued to fight in the frontline. They have built the "Great Wall" of prevention and control. In the other frontline, the scientific research of Wuhan University has never stopped. From the classroom to the front line of the epidemic, another group of Wuhan University staff quietly fought in the laboratory, accompanied by scientific instruments and virus samples, and became the important force of anti-epidemic research.
Wuhan is a city with relatively strong scientific research power in domestic universities. In this fight against the epidemic, the clinical medicine and scientific research forces in Wuhan universities have played an important role, especially Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University. Several affiliated hospitals of these two universities are the key hospitals for patients with new corona pneumonia. At the same time, the two universities also took advantage of the of the school's comprehensive disciplines, quickly assembled multidisciplinary research teams to carry out emergency scientific research, and provided scientific and technological support for the frontline of epidemic prevention and control.
The two well-known hospitals affiliated to Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital and Zhongnan Hospital, have invested more than 17,000 medical staff and over 8,600 hospital beds. Tang Qizhu, Vice President of Wuhan University, said: "Wuhan University is a comprehensive university. It has a medical school with a complete discipline system, and several high-level affiliated hospitals, especially Renmin Hospital and Zhongnan Hospital, which should take the epidemic prevention and control task as their mission. "
In the fight against the epidemic, the medical team of Wuhan University not only stuck to its main position, but also continued to fight, taking over several hospitals including Wuchang Fangcang Hospital and Wuhan Living Room Fangcang Hospital. In particular, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University has also been given the heavy task of taking over the Leishenshan Hospital. The hospital was rapidly built. It has 1,500 beds, and staffed with 12 medical teams from across the country, involving more than 230 units, and more than 2,300 medical staff. How can this temporary hospital operate scientifically and efficiently? For the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in charge of taking over, this is a challenge that must complete.
For more than a month, Leishenshan Hospital has been operating in an orderly manner. It has admitted more than 2,000 patients with severe and critical conditions, and discharged 1499 patients. During this process, none of the medical staff was infected.
In addition to all-out efforts to treat patients in the clinical front-line, Wuhan University also gives full play to the advantages of combining multi-disciplinary and medical science to provide scientific and technological support for the front-line anti-epidemic. In the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Wuhan University Renmin Hospital, the molecular pathogen detection team often faces hundreds or even thousands of specimens. In the fight against the epidemic, the Laboratory Department of Wuhan University Renmin Hospital was one of the earliest institutions in China to carry out theCOVID-19 nucleic acid detection work.
Li Yan, director of the laboratory department of the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, said: "At that time, two shifts were adopted. As the epidemic situation later required, we switched to four shifts. The machine is non-stop, people can rest, and the maximum collection can reach 1704 a day. The total is estimated to be more than 30,000. "
Nucleic acid testing is an important method and basis for screening COVID-19 patients. If the nucleic acid test results are not accurate, it may affect the epidemic prevention and control and the timely treatment of patients. In order to increase the insurance factor for conventional fluorescent quantitative PCR nucleic acid detection methods, Li Yan relied on the strong scientific research force of Wuhan University, and formed a joint research team with the team of Professor Liu Tiangang from the School of Pharmacy and other institutions to start a race against time.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that throughout the history of human development, science and technology are the most powerful weapon for human beings to fight against diseases. Scientific development and technological innovation are indispensable for mankind to overcome a major disaster. As a new type of infectious disease, the transmission route, pathogenic mechanism, and effective medication of corona virus has not been well examined. Overcoming the epidemic is inseparable from technological support. Only by relying on science, giving full play to the advantages of scientific talents including universities, and forging more anti-epidemic tools, can we win the war of epidemic prevention and control.
