Majority of medics sent by Jiangsu to Hubei were experts in critical care

More than 1,800 doctors and nurses sent by Jiangsu province to Hubei province, the hardest hit area by the novel coronavirus epidemic in China, to aid its epidemic control were specialists in critical medicine, a leading member of the team said on Saturday.

That acounted for more than 65 percent of the entire Jiangsu medical assistance team to Hubei, Huang Yingzi, vice-president of Zhongshan Hospital, affiliated to Southeast University in Nanjing, said.

Serious patients take up between 15 and 20 percent of all COVID-19 patients, and they have high mortality rates, so rescuing such patients is a very important task for battling the epidemic in Hubei, she said.

In Hubei, doctors and nurses from Jiangsu made great efforts treating patients in serious conditions, including working with local doctors and nurses to expand beds and intensive care wards, and provide important equipment such as negative-pressure ambulances and mechanical ventilators, Huang said at a news conference organized by the State Council Information Office.

To ensure high standard treatment to every serious patient, medical staff workers organized a special treatment team for every single serious patient to offer them customized and precise treatment, which is key to reducing the morality rate, she said.

Doctors conducted inspections carefully on each serious patient twice a day, and held two meetings every day to discuss treatment plans for serious patients, she said.

In addition, the medical team also paid importance to rehabilitation of such patients both physically and psychologically, she said.