[In Photos] Shanghai’s Community Hospitals Hike Capacity to Deal With More Fever, Severe Covid Cases
Yicai Global
DATE:  Jan 05 2023
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
[In Photos] Shanghai’s Community Hospitals Hike Capacity to Deal With More Fever, Severe Covid Cases [In Photos] Shanghai’s Community Hospitals Hike Capacity to Deal With More Fever, Severe Covid Cases

(Yicai Global) Jan. 5 -- Community hospitals in Shanghai are raising their capacity to receive more patients with fevers and give timely medical treatment to people with severe Covid-19 symptoms.

The number of oxygen inhaler and intravenous drip facilities, fever rooms, beds, electrocardiograph monitors, and Covid-19 drugs in the city’s community-level healthcare centers has been increasing since last month.

Several elderly people receive oxygen in a room where patients get intravenous drips at Xietu sub-district’s community health center.

Patients with mild Covid-19 symptoms receive treatment at the Jiuting Town Community Health Service Center in Shanghai’s Songjiang district.

A relative cares for an elderly family member in the inpatients ward of Jiuting town’s community hospital.

Doctors at Jiuting Town Community Healthcare Service Center use computed tomography to scan a patient’s lungs.

A medical worker in the community hospital of Xietu sub-district fills oxygen bags.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Futura Costaglione

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