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Preface
Twelve days to build a specialized hospital from scratch was an impossible and legendary task completed by Leishenshan Hospital back then.
Now, four years after the closure of Mount Raygod Hospital, how is the legendary hospital doing now?
After four years of inactivity, has Leishenshan Hospital been abandoned?
Thor and the Plague God
On April 14, Leishenshan Hospital, which played an important role in the early days of the new crown epidemic, was officially closed.
The 67-day storied hospital of the heroic hospital against the menacing coronavirus pandemic finally ended its storied career, and only the signatures and graffiti paintings of the medical staff on the walls still bear witness to the scene.
Looking back on the past of this hero hospital since its opening, this specialized hospital, which was put into use on February 8, has treated more than 2,000 patients and helped more than 1,900 people recover and be discharged in just 67 days of anti-epidemic life.
Behind the stick figures on the wall are the heroic past of more than 3,000 medical workers from all over the country fighting the epidemic in just a few dozen days.
Information sources:
Xinhua News Agency, "Leishenshan Hospital Officially Closed"2020-04-15
With the discharge of the last critically ill patients, the legendary 1,600-bed hospital, which had been built in just 12 days, officially closed.
Looking back at the beginning and end of Leishenshan Hospital, this hospital has a legendary story from the beginning of its birth.
China's speed has created a legend for 12 days
At the beginning of 2020, a huge new crown pneumonia epidemic suddenly swept across the land of China, and Wuhan, as the place of its origin, was also the first to bear the brunt of the most serious threat.
After the lockdown of Wuhan City, the new crown pneumonia is still spreading rapidly and increasing the number of infected people.
Due to the sharp increase in the number of patients, even with the help of medical teams from various provinces and cities across the country, the original hospital beds are also facing a serious shortage of beds, and the risk of cross-infection is becoming more and more susceptible.
Based on this situation, the construction of a new specialized hospital for the treatment of patients infected with the new crown pneumonia has become the key to winning the battle against the epidemic.
In April 2003, when the SARS epidemic broke out, a 1,000-bed Xiaotangshan Hospital was built in Beijing, which admitted one-seventh of the country's SARS patients within two months of its use, and no medical staff was infected during this period.
Inspired by Xiaotangshan Hospital, Wuhan City and central leaders quickly decided to emulate the success of Xiaotangshan Hospital and build two new hospitals in Wuhan to treat patients infected with the new coronavirus, and Leishenshan Hospital is one of them.
After finalizing the decision to build a new Leishenshan Hospital, the emergency command quickly issued an order to complete the saga of the hospital covering an area of more than 80,000 square meters within 12 days.
It was the Spring Festival holiday, and Wuhan was in lockdown, not to mention that such a huge amount of work had to be completed in such a short time, and it was a luxury to gather a team of workers who could support the construction and operation of the building.
It is no wonder that when foreign netizens learned that Leishenshan Hospital would be completed within 12 days, they would exclaim: This is an impossible task, and such a miracle can only be done by China.
On January 25, 2020, when another hospital, Huoshenshan Hospital, was working overtime to build, the task of building the second "Xiaotangshan Hospital" in Wuhan, Leishenshan Hospital, officially began.
After the China Construction Third Bureau, which undertook the construction work, posted a heroic post, heroic workers from all over the world gathered at the construction site of Leishenshan and began the road of the 12-day legend of Leishenshan Hospital.
In 12 days, tens of thousands of staff worked together day and night, and finally successfully completed the 12-day legend of this 80,000-square-meter hospital.
Information sources:
CCTV "[The Forefront of the War Epidemic] Leishenshan Hospital Carries Out Acceptance and Gradually Handover! Retrograde Heroes Bravely Cast "Life Safety Island""2020-02-07
China's speed contains China's strength
In just 12 days, the construction of 80,000 square meters of buildings was completed, and the strong speed of China's infrastructure madness has been fully demonstrated.
But even with such a huge amount of work completed in such a short period of time, Leishenshan Hospital has sufficient professionalism, and behind this miracle is China's strong comprehensive national strength with both speed and strength.
In order to complete the work with higher efficiency, the construction of Leishenshan Hospital adopts the most advanced assembly technology in the construction industry, which saves a lot of working time through the efficient assembly and utilization of the finished building products.
With the strong support of China's manufacturing industry, China's infrastructure workers were able to complete the construction of such a miraculous Leishenshan Hospital at an astonishing speed in China.
In addition to ensuring speed, the construction process of Leishenshan Hospital also fully considered its professional needs as an infectious disease hospital.
With Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital as a reference, Leishenshan Hospital pays special attention to the control of cross-infection and possible environmental pollution.
Information sources:
People's Daily Online, "Revealing the "Chinese Power" Behind the Construction of Huoshenshan Leishenshan Hospital"2020-02-24
In order to prevent the sewage from Leishenshan Hospital from seeping into the surrounding underground, construction workers laid more than 120,000 square meters of high-strength impermeable membrane on the lower floor of the hospital building.
Each isolation ward of Leishenshan Hospital has a separate toilet, and meals and medicines will also be handed over to patients through a transfer bin equipped with double glazing and ultraviolet system, which avoids the occurrence of cross-infection in the hospital to the greatest extent.
In addition, Leishenshan Hospital is also equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment, as well as matching sewage treatment and air purification devices, which provide corresponding support for the orderly operation of the hospital.
What is the situation of Leishenshan now?
Four years have passed since Leishenshan Hospital was officially closed, and now the epidemic seems to have left us, is the hospital that once treated nearly 2,000 critically ill patients now abandoned?
In fact, as a cabin hospital specializing in the treatment of severe patients with new crown pneumonia, Leishenshan Hospital has completed its historical mission and has not been put into use since its closure.
Only after a year of lockdown in 2021, the medical team from all over the country was able to return to their hometowns to recall those heroic years.
During the epidemic, all parts of the country followed the example of Leishenshan and Huoshenshan Hospitals, and built many special cabin hospitals to prevent and control the new crown epidemic, and invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this.
There are also small cabins that used to be nucleic acid testing sites, but now they seem to have disappeared from our field of vision.
In fact, there are already measures in place to reuse medical equipment that can be reused.
For those shelter hospitals that have been built, the National Health Construction Commission also pointed out that they can be rebuilt into sub-designated hospitals with isolation and treatment functions on the original basis to continue to shine.
As the years go by, Leishenshan Hospital will not disappear in our memory, and this legendary story will continue to inject the courage to fight for the united Chinese nation in the future.
Information sources:
Beijing Business Daily "After the epidemic is over, how to reuse nucleic acid sampling houses and cabin hospitals?" 》2022-12-18
epilogue
As a legend of those heroic years, Leishenshan Hospital has fulfilled its historical mission and will provide us with valuable experience and inspiration in the future.
Behind this legend, there is also a strong comprehensive national strength represented by "China Speed", and I believe that the united Chinese nation will continue to complete the construction of more miracles under the witness of this heroic hospital.