Chapter 248 - Contagious Atypical Pneumonia (1/1)
Chapter 248: Contagious Atypical Pneumonia
Translator: Lonelytree
San Hai City was a s Municipal within it was even s Municipal sat by the coastline but its tourism was not developed The hospital at this small city had received ust 2nd They all suffered fro Those with light synosed with flu while those with nosed with pneuht duty consulted a 18 year old patient named Shen Haoxuan, she heard from the patient quite plainly that he was infected by aInstantly, alar Lin’sLin immediately requested for the patient’s files of everyone who registered at the hospital that day The ed uncle whom Shen Haoxuan mentioned did exist, he was a 43 years old patient as sent fro Guoxin
Reading through Huang Guoxin’s nosis Huang Guoxin’s doctor gave hi Guoxin’s situation was serious, his recorded tehed constantly and his phlegm was sticky and brown Occasionally there was blood in his coughs, accompanied by what appeared to be decayed flesh The lumps of flesh were tes He eak and sore all over his body Clearand the chest x ray showed an irregular shadow of 6 c The inflammation was serious but there was no unique identifier The patient said he had been coughing for days already but it only got serious this m and occasional blood He ca, his attending doctor, instructed an inspection of the patient’s vital signs as well as his liver and kidney function The blood test showed that there was high concentration of white blood cells Conosed the patient to be suffering fro the patient’s saliva and blood for bacterial culture, Huang Guoxian was is and cefuroxime sodium injection for infection resistance, etaiven acetaminophen to help with the fever However, a look at the patient’s te Lin’s heart Even with the drugs, the patient’s body teree
“Hopefully I’ Lin then called the inpatient depart Guoxin’s latest update and her heart sunk right into ice The nurse on duty told her that the patient’s coughing had gottenLin had a feeling this was not a noriven a wrong diagnosis
Her trainee days at university infor city was no deal but for the population at Jiang Xin Municipal, 20 patients in a day was too istered, and the second patient with similar symptoms appeared at 3 pm but after 7 pm, patients started to pour in! She herself had treated more than 18 patients with the same symptoms already! Combine that with Shen Haoxuan’s testiious atypical pneu Lin shared her report with another doctor working at the e this to the bigger state hospital Their hospital was a sency shi+ft
“An epidee, frowned “With the hot weather recently, it’s common for us to have an influx of patients with pneu serious” Once the news reached the state hospital, no matter if it was real or not, there would be much paperwork to follow up Zhao Yutao did not want the trouble, especially now that it wasLin that raduate from a famous university, Eastern State Medical University From his perspective, she was inexperienced and liked to“We’ll just transfer the first patient who that we do not have enough equipment to deal with his conditions,” He advised
“Brother Zhao, this is not so Xin insisted on her observation, “We need people from the disease control centre” She turned to ement office and ious atypical pneuns of spreading “The latent period for normal pneumonia should bewith, there are sih fever, the patient’s conditions will deteriorate at an alar rate The same is observed from another patient who is suspected to have been infected frohs only after 6 to 7 hours!”
Huang Lin stressed the severity of the situation and requested them to make the report to their superiors as well Ti of an epideory B and C contagious diseases When category B disease showed signs of surfacing, it should be reported as though they were treating category A contagious disease Huang Lin orried that the medical department would delay their report Every minute was extreion were taken, the more lives could be saved
Thankfully the medical department reacted swiftly, they called the city disease control centre at 20: 32 on August the 2nd When Huang Lin finished her report, she returned to her post and treated her 21st, 22nd, 23rd pneumonia patients…
When the number cli So was the hospital’s contagion one awry At the same time, the city disease control centrethis public health issue They ordered Jiang Xin hospital to quarantine the patients and upgrade the safety of theand his teaation
“Okay, I understand” When He Feng got the call fro dinner with his family, “I’ll depart now” His orked at the disease control centre too so she understood his necessary absence but his seven years old daughter, Niu Niu pouted unhappily, “Daddy, can’t you go after dinner?”
“Daddy has to go to work Stay hohter’s head Disease control was basically a race against time He was expected to be at any location where an epide on, He Feng jumped into his car His assistant Lee Wen handed hiious disease reports written by Doctor Huang Lin, they detailed the patients’looked through the files and his heart dropped with each turn of the page…
The small town hospital did not have the device to conduct any antigen-antibody analysis, they did not even have a CTGuoxin’s professional opinion was that it was too early to tell if it was a contagious disease However, He Feng agreed with Doctor Huang Lin’s clinical assessment, this did not appear like a case of normal pneumonia
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Suddenly, Lee Wen received a phone call and he said sadly, “Leader He, the nu Xin Hospital has climbed up to more than 30 cases already”
“Isolate the whole hospital i’s face wrinkled as he ordered quickly, “Patients who show signs of vo the hospital Get the centre to send in more equipment and devices, and everyone in the hospital has to be on Grade 3 protection This tiht even need to apply to lockdown on…” He halted and changed the ‘entire San Hai City’ that appeared on his lips to “Jiang Xin Municipal”
Hopefully this was just a scare, with a contagion that could only travel through close contact between patients Hopefully… the zone of the epidemic had not spread…
The uneven s looked out at the retreating streets and the faces of his wife and daughter flashed across his ht need to stay outside for a few more days than promised before daddy can come home’