Editor's Note:
Global Times reporters recently paid a home visit to Cao Guangbin with nurse Wang Qinghua and doctor Yue Xinfeng from Beijing’s Liulitun Community Health Center in Chaoyang district.
Since the 88-year-old got infected and bedridden in December, doctors and nurses from the community hospital have been taking care of him. After about 10-days of thorough treatment at the community hospital, Cao, with underlying diseases who was too ill to function alone, is now able to walk and go to bathroom by himself.
Since China allows home quarantine, it is estimated that 99 percent of the patients will be concentrated in grassroots communities & medical institutions, Zhang Wenhong, a prominent Chinese epidemiologist said. It is believed that the key to getting out of the epidemic lies in community doctors, the grass-root level of hierarchical treatment and adequate stocking of drugs, Zhang said.
Liulitun Community Health Center receives an average of about 400 patients with fever and other COVID-19 symptoms every day and during the peak period, the daily diagnosis amount has surpassed 600. From December 6 to December 31, more than 7,000 people received medical treatment there. (Photos: Li Hao/GT)
Since the 88-year-old got infected and bedridden in December, doctors and nurses from the community hospital have been taking care of him. After about 10-days of thorough treatment at the community hospital, Cao, with underlying diseases who was too ill to function alone, is now able to walk and go to bathroom by himself.
Since China allows home quarantine, it is estimated that 99 percent of the patients will be concentrated in grassroots communities & medical institutions, Zhang Wenhong, a prominent Chinese epidemiologist said. It is believed that the key to getting out of the epidemic lies in community doctors, the grass-root level of hierarchical treatment and adequate stocking of drugs, Zhang said.
Liulitun Community Health Center receives an average of about 400 patients with fever and other COVID-19 symptoms every day and during the peak period, the daily diagnosis amount has surpassed 600. From December 6 to December 31, more than 7,000 people received medical treatment there. (Photos: Li Hao/GT)
