China News Service, Zhengzhou, July 23 (Lang Lang and Zhang Yilin) On the 20th, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province suffered extremely heavy rainfall. A heavy rain that unexpectedly caused serious waterlogging in the urban area of Zhengzhou and interrupted traffic in the city. Ask for help , Loss of contact, and rescue have become the key words of this city.
Affected by heavy rainfall, the Huazhong Cardiovascular Hospital in Fuwai, Zhengzhou City (hereinafter referred to as Zhengzhou Fuwai Hospital) was completely cut off from water and electricity. The surrounding roads were flooded, traffic was blocked, and the treatment of patients was greatly affected. It is urgent to transfer to other hospitals. The hospital continues to receive treatment.
On the 22nd, rescuers transported the patient to the urban hospital through a combination of rubber boats, assault boats, and helicopters, and carried out a life-and-death rescue.
On July 22, the severely affected Fuwai Huazhong Cardiovascular Hospital transferred patients out.
The picture shows rescuers transporting patients in assault boats and kayaks.
Photo by Li Mingming issued by China News Service
"Island" of disconnection, power and network disconnection
On the morning of the 21st, the rain in Zhengzhou stopped, the water in the city receded very quickly, and some ground was even dry.
However, in the lowest-lying city east of Zhongmou County in Zhengzhou, the floods around Zhengzhou Fuwai Hospital showed no sign of subsiding due to the surge of river water and the backflow of stagnant water.
Due to the loss of connection caused by the power outage, rescue information could not be sent out in time, the road to the hospital was blocked, and rescue forces could not reach it.
For a time, a hospital with thousands of patients, family members, and medical staff became an "island" in the torrent.
The water outside the hospital is even two meters deep. The traffic lights that originally hung in the air now seem to be within reach. The engineering rescue vehicles parked on the road can only see the roof, and the cars float in the water like boats. .
The culvert at the intersection of East Fourth Ring Road and Zhengkai Avenue, the closest way to the hospital, was filled with floods, and the roads in other directions were also full of oceans.
If rescuers want to enter the hospital for rescue, they must set off 3 kilometers away, hike hundreds of meters in the thigh-deep water, and then take a lifeboat and sail into the lobby of the hospital.
On July 22, the severely affected Fuwai Huazhong Cardiovascular Hospital transferred patients out.
The picture shows rescuers transferring a patient with bone injuries.
Photo by Li Mingming issued by China News Service
To avoid greater danger, the hospital decided to switch off the electricity
"The rain suddenly got bigger." Zheng Rongrong (pseudonym), a vascular surgery nurse who had just come to the hospital for a week of internship, said that when a colleague on the night shift in the pharmacy went to work on the afternoon of the 20th, the stagnant water on the first floor of the hospital had no ankle.
After a few more hours, the rain was getting worse and worse. The water on the first floor had reached the calf. The hospital staff saw that the situation was wrong and began to store food, drinking water and other supplies.
There are more than 5,000 people trapped in the hospital. Among them, 1,075 are patients and 69 are critically ill.
On the night of the heavy rainstorm, the first thing the hospital staff thought of was to protect the generator on the basement floor.
Because there are many critically ill children and elderly patients in the intensive care unit, as well as patients who have just completed surgery.
Medical equipment needs motors, and they cannot be powered off.
"We pulled up a'human wall' to rescue overnight. But the water was too big, and for the sake of personnel safety, we had to give up the underground floor." While rescuing the motor, the medical staff transferred all the critically ill patients to it. Upstairs.
In the early morning of the 21st, the stagnant water in the hospital had already covered the thighs.
In order to prevent the occurrence of greater danger, the hospital had to cut off the power emergency and rely on backup batteries and other generators to maintain operation.
When interviewed by reporters, Gao Chuanyu, the vice president of the hospital, choked up when talking about the damage to the hospital and could no longer face the camera.
On July 22, rescuers carried out the transfer of trapped persons in Zhengzhou Fuwai Hospital.
Photo by Lang Lang, a reporter from China News Service
"They leave everything they eat and drink to us"
Speaking of his experience in the hospital in the past two days, Jia Liuwang, a 66-year-old man who attended the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Fuwai Hospital, couldn't help crying.
"We leave everything we eat and drink, and the doctors and nurses are reluctant to take a bite, and they are reluctant to take a sip."
Even if it is immersed in large waters, the hospital order cannot fall into chaos.
In order to make it easier for patients and their families to quickly find a doctor, a note was posted on the back of each medical staff, with their department and name written on the back.
On the afternoon of the 21st, rescuers moved all the people in the hospital annex and the staff dormitory to the outpatient building. They walked in a hurry. Zheng Rongrong could not take anything with him, only a set of nurse uniforms.
That night, everyone in the hospital was supporting each other, and the staff worked together to transport those patients with inconvenient legs and critical illnesses.
"It is too late to think, but they are all helping each other; too late to be moved, they are all comforting and encouraging each other, believing that it will be all right," said a family member of a patient.
When preparing for transfer, all patients must be grouped together and transported.
Jia Liuwang's ward was on the 11th floor. After the power failure, the elevator was unavailable. He could only go downstairs through a step ladder. He just walked a few floors and met a nurse.
"Uncle, how can you go downstairs by yourself?" The thin-looking nurse carried him downstairs without saying a word.
On July 22, the severely affected Fuwai Huazhong Cardiovascular Hospital in Zhengzhou City transported patients out by helicopter, assault boat, and kayak.
The picture shows medical staff sending a critically ill baby onto a helicopter for transfer.
Photo by Wang Dengfeng issued by China News Agency
Air-ground joint rescue method
On the afternoon of the 21st, the relief supplies were delivered to the hospital by kayak.
The next day, more rescue teams poured into this "island."
On the 22nd, rescue forces from various places including Anhui, Jiangsu, and Beijing arrived at the scene. Assault boats and helicopters cooperated on the ground and in the sky to transfer stranded patients, family members, and medical staff.
The rescue boat transfers ordinary patients from the hospital to a clear road, and then uses vehicles to transfer them to the People's Hospital.
For some critically ill patients, eight rescue workers are required to lift one person to ensure that the patient's body is not subject to too much vibration.
The two aerial rescue helicopters in the air operate cyclically, constantly moving to and from the Henan Provincial People's Hospital more than 20 kilometers away to transfer critically ill patients.
The rescuers from all sides cooperated with each other. On the night of the 22nd, more than 2,400 patients and medical staff had all been transferred.
In the impression of everyone on the scene, they did not appear to be flustered during the transfer.
"The hospital is doing a good job, we are at ease, and we believe that the People's Liberation Army will come to rescue us." Jia Liuwang said.
At the transfer site, the grandmother who was sent to the ship saluted the soldiers and firefighters who participated in the rescue; when a hospital security guard was transferred to Changtong Road, tears filled her eyes to thank the rescuers on both sides.
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