Local residents queue to see a doctor at a fever clinic transformed from a nucleic acid sampling station in Wuxi. [Photo/Wuxi Daily]
Nucleic acid sampling stations in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, have been transformed into fever clinics, providing fever and pain medications to patients in need.
The clinics are equipped with doctors, pharmacists, diagnostic devices, and common medicines.
A pharmacist prepares medicine at a fever clinic transformed from a nucleic acid sampling station in Wuxi. [Photo/Wuxi Daily]
Unlike those queuing for hours at hospitals, people visiting roadside fever clinics can finish the whole medical process in about 10 minutes. They can use their health insurance to obtain fever and pain medications, which are in short supply across the country.
The city has established more than 1,500 such fever clinics, which were renovated not only from nucleic acid sampling stations, but also from empty rooms provided by local residential community committees, according to the local health commission.
The transformed fever clinic in Yuqi subdistrict of Huishan district, Wuxi. [Photo/Wuxi Daily]
These fever clinics in Xinwu district are open from 7 am to 11 am and 1 pm to 5 pm every day, while such fever clinics in Yuqi subdistrict of Huishan district are available throughout the day.
As of Saturday, more than 16,000 people had visited the fever clinics, and more such clinics will open soon.
