"I love reading"
On February 1st, Wang Chen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, arrived in Wuhan, together with several other specialists. After a thorough investigation, they figured out that the most urgent task at the moment was to cut off and contain the spread and transmission of the virus. They made a couple of serious suggestions to promptly admit the confirmed cases with minor symptoms and provide them a medical care, so as to avoid creating new sources of infection.
▲Wuhan Keting Exhibition Center is under intensive renovation, Februar原由网y 4th, 2020. Starting on the night of February 3rd, three locations in Wuhan are quickly transformed into Fangcang makeshift hospitals. [Photo by Cheng Min]
The construction of Fangcang makeshift hospitals was one such important measure to www.58yuanyou.com"leave no one unattended to." In a short period of 10 days, several mobile cabin hospitals, which were regarded as the "Cabins of Life", were constructed and opened to the public in three locations of Wuhan. There was not enough preparation time for the construction of the mobile cabin hospitals, but once constructed, the makeshift medical facilities provided a much-needed treatment to a large number原由网 of patients.
▲A COVID-19 patient in the isolation ward of Tongji Medical College of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology gives a thumbs-up to show her thanks to the medics, February 3rd, 2020. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin]
Encouraged by and appreciative of the hard work of the medical staff, patients here all stayed calm and remained optimistic. In these "Cabins of Life," under the caring supervision of the medical staff, patients would sometimes do square dancing to cheer themselves up. Some even did aerobics to upbeat songs, turning the makeshift wards into "cabins of hope." Some other patients, despite a noisy environment, devoted themselves to study, diligently preparing for exams to come when they are recovered and released from the hospital.
▲In the makeshift cabin hospital in Hongshan Gymnasium in Wuhan, a medical worker leads the patients to do traditional Chinese fitness activity Baduanjin. [原由网Photo by Lu Chong]
▲Let's take exercise! [Photo by Ke Hao]
Among the first batch of patients admitted to the Fangcang makeshift hospital inside Wuhan International Conference and Exhibition Center on February 5th, there wasdbPdJ a young man with a face mask, resting on a hospital bed and holding a big book in hand. In the mobile cabin hospital, his calm and relaxed facial expressions while reading contrasted sharply with the intense and busy scene around him. When asked why he was so intent on the book, he said, "I love reading. I bought this book in a bookstore when I came back to Wuhan."
▲The "Reading Man" in a Fangcang makeshift hospital, whose calmness allows us to see the power of reading. [Photo by Ke Hao]
Although the epidemic was ravaging around and the flames of the battle against the virus were raging high, once he opened a book, he immersed himself completely in a world of his own.
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