There is a shortage of hospitals in Beijing: there is a lack of medical and nursing staff. Such a shortage that requires the arrival of specialized personnel from other cities in the country
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Covid emergency in Beijing, hospitals lack doctors and nurses A shortage that requires the arrival of skilled workers from other cities, including Changsha, capital of Hunan province, according to the news portal The Economic Observer. The news, which reported the arrival of about 160 health workers specializing in respiratory diseases and critical care, was later removed due to censorship but was also published by the South China Morning Post. According to local media, doctors and health workers from Hunan (central), Jiangsu (east) and Shandong (east) provinces have already traveled to the capital or are being sent to the capital due to the increase in infections. Other sources, unconfirmed by authorities, say personnel from Shandong, Jiangsu and Fujian provinces have already gone to Beijing or “soon”.
What is happening in China
deepening
Covid, “intensive care medicine at the limit” in China
Since the decision to end the “zero Covid” policy and lift many of the current restrictions, China has been swept by a wave of infections, leading to long queues in hospital emergency rooms, according to many social media testimonies. “The average wait time in our hospital emergency room is between three and six hours. It is already difficult to find an available bed among the 80 intensive care beds,” a medic from the capital told The Economic Observer. “Before, a nurse could only take care of one patient in the intensive care unit. Now she has six people to take care of,” she concluded. Beijing’s health workers have also been affected by the Covid wave, which has led to a staff shortage at the most delicate moment.
doubts about deaths
Hong Kong media such as the South China Morning Post have also reported that hundreds of specialists have been sent to Beijing, citing some leaked government documents. Health authorities only count a handful of deaths, raising doubts about the accuracy of the data on deaths provided by the authorities themselves. According to an expert quoted by the official press who has intervened in the matter, deaths from underlying diseases in patients who contracted the coronavirus are not counted as Covid deaths. According to the British international research body Airfinity, China would have to deal with a million new infections and around 5,000 deaths every day. This is in contrast to official data reports which on Thursday 22nd December recorded 3,761 new cases of Covid and no deaths.
last update
The wave of Covid infections sweeping China would have spawned 37 million infections in a single day, according to Bloomberg agency. In fact, about 248 million Chinese, about 18% of the population, contracted the virus in the first twenty days of December. Bloomberg cites some minutes of a meeting of the National Health Commission, the Chinese government agency that circulates the country’s daily bulletin on infections and deaths, held last Wednesday, December 21. The current wave would be the largest ever recorded in China.
health and wellness
Covid, tests and holiday masks? expert opinion
“We are approaching Christmas, my advice is to bring masks if you have even mild symptoms and are visiting the infirm and the elderly,” Health Minister Schillaci said. From Crisanti to Burioni and Palù to the experts of the Italian Society of Neonatology, here’s how to live this period “responsibly”.
Hangout from familydinner & dinner between friends and colleagues. Among the holidays, between Christmas and New Year’s, Opportunities for encounters are multiplying. But how do you deal with it SARS-CoV-2 and also ad other viruses typical for the winter season? Here are some tips from experts
“To those who ask me if I would make one Swab for Covid Before I meet the elderly and infirm for Christmas dinner, I answer: Yes, of course. At the same time, I advise all frail people, including those who have been vaccinated, to do the same put on the mask when they are in public places or when they meet people they have never met.” This is the opinion given by microbiologist and Pd Senator Adnkronos Salute, Andrew Crisanti
The virologist also spoke on the subject Robert Buroni who reports how he does it Anti-Covid Test would do this before Christmas dinner with parents aged 93 and 92 as “I don’t want to expose them to risks that could be avoided with one swab painless that you can do yourself in two minutes and costs two euros”. And on the possibility of doing a pre-dinner test: “I think the same thing. When you have to meet fragile peopleeven if vaccinated, it needs some meaning responsibility. That’s all,” Crisanti continued