(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Diary written in the makeshift hospital: Dense nucleic acid reagents are full of pungent alcohol smell
China News Service, Ningde, April 23 (Lin Rongsheng) "In the prefabricated house of about ten square meters, six or seven people are busy, the room is full of nucleic acid reagents, and the whole room is full of pungent alcohol. The smell caused a lot of discomfort in the throat, but the volunteers in the cabin seemed to be unaware and busy with their work." Volunteer Xiao Yi wrote in his diary.
Xiao Yi is an employee of the Sandu Ao New District Company in Ningde City, Fujian Province. In order to support the epidemic prevention and control work in Ningde City, when he learned that there was an urgent shortage of volunteers in the Fangcang shelter hospital of the Municipal Sports Center, he immediately signed up to participate in this volunteer. Epidemic prevention work.
On the day of receiving the notice, after Xiao Yi comforted his parents, he started to pack his luggage, went to the meeting point to check in early the next morning, and followed the team leader to the makeshift hospital.
"I saw many medical staff and volunteers coming and going at the scene. They were in a hurry. They understood the severe epidemic situation in Ningde and the importance of the work they were going to participate in." Xiao Yi said.
Xiao Yi at work.
Photo courtesy of Xiao Yi
After a professional training on putting on and taking off protective clothing, Xiao Yi put on the "big white shirt", and then went to the data room of the square cabin to receive, count, enter, submit, and clean and disinfect the data room for nucleic acid samples in Ningde city. .
"It can be seen from the schedule that the entire data room is working continuously in three shifts 24 hours a day." The team leader said to the volunteers that the Omicron strain has the characteristics of high concealment and high infectivity, and must be The virus can be defeated by making it fast; at the same time, the provincial hospital cabins carry the largest nucleic acid testing capacity in Ningde, and more than 300,000 nucleic acid reagents are tested every day. Only by working 24 hours a day can the general public be informed of the epidemic at the first time. progress.
According to the arrangement of the shift schedule, Xiao Yi came to the data room at 4 pm to take over the shift.
"Because the nucleic acid reagent bottle is likely to be contaminated by viruses, it is necessary to wear double-layer rubber gloves and do a good job of virus disinfection at any time." The medical staff at the scene told Xiao Yi.
After completing the protection work, Xiao Yi started the first data entry work. From 4 pm to 12 pm, after completing the data entry of less than 2,000 tubes, he was so tired that his arms were numb and his shoulders were sore.
Volunteers at work.
Photo courtesy of Xiao Yi
"In the peak period, each volunteer needs to enter nearly 6,000 tubes of reagents for about 60,000 times a day on average." The first group of volunteers who came in pointed at Xiao Yi's entry skills and said to him, "Come in for one or two. After you get used to it, the speed of entry will stabilize."
After a day's work, Xiao Yi will recall the input skills taught by volunteers in order to better carry out his work.
The next day, he was still on the night shift. According to the work skills taught by the volunteers, Xiao Yi's work efficiency improved a lot, and he completed the data entry of more than 5,000 tubes.
"It was only when I took off the protective suit that I found out that due to the double-layered gloves, the airtight environment caused a little sweat rash on my fingers." Xiao Yi said.
In the past few days, the epidemic prevention and control situation in Ningde City has been developing for the better, and the provincial cubic cabin hospital has also successfully completed the task of assisting Ningde and evacuated.
Xiao Yi and the volunteer team also bid farewell to the cabin and moved to a new hotel for final isolation.
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