Before and after the Spring Festival of 2003, a type of atypical pneumonia of undetermined etiology began to circulate in some areas of Guangzhou. Soon, with the sharp increase in the number of "SARS" patients, from early February, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ersha Emergency Department nurses power appeared obvious shortage, then as the head nurse of the Ye Xin first to take the initiative to ask for overtime.
After many days of overloaded, intense work, at noon on March 4, extremely tired Ye Xin began to feverish symptoms, physical strength of the serious overdraft of her, so that the devil took advantage of the disease, after she was diagnosed with atypical pneumonia. In order to save Ye Xin, although the hospital set up a treatment team in the shortest possible time, but on March 25, 2003, 1:30 am, in the Ye Xin last rescue, but also infected her "atypical" that patient health less than a week after discharge, Ye Xin or forever left the world, that year, she was only 47 years old.
A medical expert familiar with Ye Xin said, "Ye Xin is a book, every page is burning with the passion of life and passionate pursuit."
In the season of magnolia blossoms, head nurse Ye Xin left this world forever, and she sacrificed herself on the battlefield against atypical pneumonia. Before she died, she left behind a poignant remark: "It's dangerous here, let me do it.
In order to fight against SARS, Ye Xin made sacrifices, but Ye Xin's sacrifice also left us a profound lesson. If we don't learn these lessons, then if a similar disease occurs in the future, there will still be sacrifices, and there will still be things that people will deplore.
Lesson one: Hospitals must be equipped with standby medical staff
Whether facing SARS or this sudden outbreak, what every hospital needs most urgently is professional medical staff. If a hospital is understaffed with even the most basic medical personnel and struggles to meet the needs of its patients, how can it ensure timely and effective treatment for them after they are sent to it?
While nurses are only a service industry, there is a growing shortage of them in our society. They struggle on the front line, they do the most common and dangerous things every day, they should be valued by the country.
As Li Lanjuan said, after the epidemic is over, I hope that the country will give young people a correct life orientation, leaving high salaries to front-line researchers, military and police soldiers defending the country, and front-line health care workers, rather than letting young people chase after movie stars, who can't strengthen the country.
Lesson No. 2: Lack of medical supplies has become a key point of disease transmission
In the 2003 SARS outbreak, a lot of health care workers were infected in the process of treating patients. And in Guangdong Province, there was a tragedy in which one patient, in a row, infected 56 health care workers in three hospitals. Why did the spread of SARS emerge first from health care workers?
The lack of medical supplies at the time, coupled with the lack of protection and isolation measures for health care workers to do the right thing, the beginning of the time, some do not take it seriously, there is no masks do not wear masks, which this this precisely aggravated the spread of the virus. According to records, the head nurse Ye Xin in the busiest period of time, even too busy to wear a mask, such care is certainly not safe.
That's why it's so important for hospitals to be equipped with enough medical materials and to build adequate isolation safeguards in order to better protect these health care workers as well as patients' families.
Lesson No. 3: Health care workers must work in shifts
Didn't nurse practitioner Ye Xin know how to take care of herself? In fact, they know, but precisely because of the shortage of manpower, once they enter the front line, forcing them to need to work non-stop, non-stop to face these patients, non-stop to think, so overwork is also very easy to make their physical function decline, immunity decline.
A proper shift system ensures that healthcare workers get a better rest. That's why it's not recommended that frontline healthcare workers work for multiple days in a row. Even if you're a competent doctor, if your body collapses, then how can you save others? A shift system would better protect the fighting strength of the medics.
Lesson No. 4: Only isolation can completely stop the spread of disease
Perhaps we all remember the time of SARS in 2003, when villages, schools, and communities were drugged and disinfected every day. In fact, at that time, SARS was also very contagious, but eventually developed to the end, mainland China only just more than 5,000 people were infected, why that time can be controlled so well? It was because of timely isolation and disinfection.
I remember in 2003, I was still in junior high school, the school was very strict, strangers were not allowed to enter, parents to send food to the students are standing in front of the door, the school classrooms and dormitories are disinfected every day.
From November 16, 2002, when the first case of SARS appeared in Foshan, Guangdong Province, to July 13, 2003, when the last suspected case of SARS appeared in the United States, SARS disappeared completely. So did mankind defeat SARS, or did SARS take care of itself?
In fact, the disappearance of SARS could not simply be recognized as a victory for mankind, because mankind at that time had not been able to find the source of SARS, nor had it developed any effective drugs and vaccines, but it was only to a large extent due to the isolation and prevention of the disease that mankind had used to fight against SARS. It is the isolation of this means to cut off the transmission channels, so that mankind finally won the victory.
"Leave the risk to yourself and the safety to the patient" is the lofty spirit of countless medical personnel. It was thanks to the tenacity of a large number of health care workers that the spread of atypical pneumonia was halted and the people were able to enjoy a peaceful life.
The sad thing about life is that it can't be repeated, but what we can learn as human beings in history is the lesson. May more people learn the lessons left by SARS, so that we have enough confidence and strength to defeat this disease today.