Hospitals in China, overwhelmed by the coronavirus, turn away patients with other pressing needs

Liu Zi’ao awaited release operation in hospital in Wuhan to treat cancer of the spinal cord when he was suddenly told to leave. The new coronavirus had overthrown the Chinese health system central city in a crisis, and all resources have been diverted, they contain. In the month since the 25-year-old former acupuncturist was averted from the hospital later in hospital, while seeking treatment. Because his right leg has atrophied, you will need an ambulance to take him, if you agree to admit it. But there are a few pieces of ambulances, hospital beds or doctors at the epicenter of the outbreak, more than 75,000 people infected. Sign up for our daily newsletter crown by clicking on this link, and send any tips, leads and [email protected] stories. It was Downing Oxycontin – addictive, potent opioids – to manage his excruciating chronic pain, but the pills are running out. “I do not know what I’ll do,” said Liu. Liu is to win an outbreak of one becomes a growing number of Chinese patients with unmet medical conditions unrelated to the epidemic crown that collateral damage as China strives to control more than 2,000 lives will now claims. In Hubei, in the province of 60 million that Wuhan is the capital, medical facilities are still severe walking difficulties with the increase of the virus in patient negotiation. Almost all medical personnel, equipment and resources have been channeled into the fight against the epidemic remains other patients in limbo. 56-year-old Chris Wang’s father has kidney failure and requires dialysis twice a week. But the Third People’s Hospital of Hubei, because the hospital had been canceled, and his rooms with his usual meetings with dialysis machines were seized by government officials responsible for responding to outbreaks, he said. “It ‘s understandable that the government requires of hospital beds for patients of the virus, but it makes no sense to take dialysis chambers, because these patients may die if they do dialysis in time,” said Wang. A woman who answered hotline hospital said that can not admit patients on dialysis right now, because the hospital was taken over by the corona treatment. While most marked in devastated Hubei, where the novel has taken the crown first participation is a lack of non-viral medical supplies in China thresholds – even in its most prosperous cities. This crisis provides a spotlight on a health system that was already uneven, with care in rural areas who are late in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. In recent years, China has embarked on an ambitious review of his medical system in an attempt to bring down drug costs and waiting times in the attack, but the current outbreak brings these persistent inequalities into sharp relief. About 23,000 doctors and nurses as they land some hospitals were sent to hospitals across Hubei viral response the support epicenter to leave with less medical personnel in provinces such as Guangdong and Jiangsu. And the fear of exposing the medical staff on highly infectious pathogen causes some hospitals all new patients in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai on, even if patients need urgent treatment for cancer or kidney failure. There are no comprehensive data on how many patients in this dilemma, and it is difficult to estimate the number of preventable deaths driven by the abrupt withdrawal of medical care not viruses since the spread of the disease has begun. Yet interviews with doctors, patients and social media discussion points to a looming crisis that could leave a deadly wake, even after the eruption Ebben. The outbreak, which ended after the big party down the Chinese economy, the extraction of unspeakable human suffering across the country. begging pledge sacrificed to desperate patients Messages for help and to take into account the citizens of their lives because they could not get medical care, trends in social media in China, where the already simmering anger are beyond the slow initial response from the government of Epidemic . Wuhan last Sunday designated six hospitals for patients in critical condition unrelated to the virus and take another 15 hospitals, emergency non-Virus. In the city of 11 million people, nearly 46 hospitals with 19,000 beds are dedicated Virus Treatment with renovated stadiums, office buildings and schools also thousands more bed for infected patients. officials of national health have publicly called local hospitals across the country to neglect patients unrelated to the outbreak. But the resources, especially in the province of Hubei, are few and far between. Wuhan Union, where Liu Zi’ao was before the outbreak in the hospital, is one of six to take patients critics presumably unrelated to the virus, but a doctor says that the hospital already overwhelmed and does not have enough doctors. All doctors in his department must deal was sent to the front-infected patients, and is also on call for the jobs of the virus, said the doctor, who declined to give his name because he did not speak publicly, was authorized . “It ‘s impossible to cure completely for patients who need it now. Those with mild symptoms doctors can talk online, but critics cases, the need for surgery – there really is no way out” , the doctor said. “What can we do?” Chief Communications Wuhan Union did not return several phone calls. Health authorities in Wuhan and Hubei did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A narrow deep fatigue among medical professionals on the ground took hundreds of them have been infected themselves while care for patients. The lack of medical equipment and protective devices has shown that a lot of work has meaning, without appropriate safeguards. The death of Li Wenliang, one of the doctors in Wuhan, which has been criticized by officials increased the virus after an immediate alarm, triggered a wave of grief and anger to China earlier this month. A doctor in Wuhan, which specialized in the treatment of diabetic patients infected with the virus in January. She believes that her work at the wet market where you suspect that it is being treated for his diabetic patients the pathogen emerged. “The non-viral treatment sacrifice for the moment in a situation in which the only way in which there are no good options,” he said, declining to give his name, as they are not public speaking, has been authorized. “Wuhan lost a pawn to save a castle and that is the only thing that is feasible because the virus is just too contagious.” Patients strayed outside the province of Hubei, the fear of the ‘spread viruses that some top-tier public hospitals in other parts of China took away turning patients. In some hospitals, the majority of non-urgent operations have been postponed, according to doctors. It ‘also a decrease in patients who go to hospitals in some parts of China, where it does not work infections spread by doctors in cities like Shenzhen and Zhongshan. The new coronavirus is apparently more infectious than SARS, which claimed nearly 800 lives around the world 17 years ago. In Shanghai, a 75-year-old man, who gave his name as Zhong suffering from stomach cancer and cysts in the liver. His feet are too swollen to fit the shoes, he has no appetite, and he has to go to the bathroom dozens of times a day. As a physician who has seen him has brought on 7 February immediate surgery, five high-level hospitals in the city to take him, because he refused for fear of spreading the virus’. “We tried everything that ordinary people can be able to do, but still can not be admitted to a hospital,” said the daughter Zhong, who declined to give his name for fear of reprisals. “To see my father suffers at home makes me sick at heart.” Some hospitals now try using online platforms to expand by using non-viral patients. Municipal Committee ordered Beijing Health on Saturday, all patients, except for emergencies or those with fever, on-line and given safely to register before visiting in person to the hospital. Wuhan Tongji Hospital has developed an application that patients on Android smartphones, can be informed by available medical and suggest medications from online pharmacies to buy. For those conditions the responsibility of on-line consultations, there are few options other than hoping that the epidemic is under control and medical resources are released. While more cases of new infections in Hubei seem to be on a downward path, and the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang was quoted by state television, namely that the outbreak of a “positive development”, it is unclear whether a point turning in the outbreak has been reached. Liu Zi’ao, the year 25 with a spinal cord tumor, there is nothing to do but wait. “No hospital will take me, although I have listed a number of hospitals for weeks,” he said. “At the moment I can just stay at home and wait. But I do not even know what I’m waiting.”
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