[Video produced by Wuxi Bobao Media and News Center of Wuxi Bureau of Radio and Television]
A total of 132 doctors and nurses from nine of Wuxi's tertiary-level hospitals left Wuxi on Feb 9 for Wuhan, Hubei province, the city hardest hit by the novel coronavirus in China, to provide medical support.
The team compromises 30 doctors, 100 nurses and two administrative management specialists from the departments of critical medicine, respiration, infectious diseases and nursing. These brave souls have an average age of 33.3, with the youngest born in 1996.
The hospitals said that they received the call for a 130-member medical team from the Jiangsu Provincial Health Commission on the evening of the previous day, and the members of the team were finalized just three hours later.
A total of 132 doctors and nurses from nine of Wuxi's tertiary-level hospitals leave Wuxi for Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 9. [Photo/wxrb.com]
Xu Hongyang, head of the team and deputy director of the critical medicine department at Wuxi People's Hospital, said his wife, who works as an obstetrician, has supported him throughout the ordeal.
"This is an opportunity for me to contribute to my hometown," said Hu Xiaoxuan, a nurse at Wuxi No 2 People's Hospital, who comes from Yichang, Hubei province.
Song Houmei, senior-nurse of the critical medicine department of the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, comforted her two crying children by promising to take them on a family outing after she returns from Wuhan.
The Wuxi Municipal Health Commission and many hospitals spent seven days collecting medical supplies for the 132-member team. Some urgently-needed medical equipment, including monitors, noninvasive ventilators and invasive ventilators, were transferred to Wuhan as well.
