Guizhou provides online diagnosis to support Ezhou

Southwest China's Guizhou province recently sent several medical teams to support the fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic in Ezhou, Central China's Hubei province, and adopted cloud technology for the first time to realize online diagnosis on Feb 17, which allowed hospitals in Guizhou to discuss treatment plans.

The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University has sent over 200 elite doctors and nurses to Ezhou. So far, the treatment at hospitals in Ezhou is stable and successful. Guizhou and Ezhou share the same fight against the virus. With doctors and nurses sticking together, we will tackle and defeat the virus, said Liu Wen, secretary of the Party committee at the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University.

According to Luo Tianyong, a doctor from the infectious disease department of the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, the fifth ward at Ezhou Leishan Hospital has 48 medical workers and 47 patients, with all the patients being in stable condition.

During the online diagnoses, Lyu Jingsong, leader of Guizhou's medical team in Ezhou and deputy secretary general of the Guizhou provincial government, said that the medical team's priority is to control the development of patients' conditions.

It is also essential for medical workers to keep standard operation to protect themselves and prevent nosocomial infection.

The headquarters of Guizhou's medical team in Ezhou also introduced the treatment progress at the Third People's Hospital of Ezhou and the Ezhou Central Hospital, as well as the construction progress of Leishan Hospital's second stage.

Guizhou's medical team in Ezhou Leishan Hospital and the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University discuss treatment plans online. [Photo/xinhuanet.com]