BEIJING (AFP): One month after makeshift hospitals opened to chaos and confusion at the epicentre of China's coronavirus epidemic, frontline doctor Ma Yonggang is finally seeing more empty beds as fewer patients arrive.
When 43-year-old Ma was first summoned to a sports stadium converted into a medical facility on Feb 4, it was a virtual construction site with electrical wiring and beds still being installed.
"We had 30-40 patients being discharged per day, but the number of patients admitted was only a dozen or so. This was when the whole situation changed for us," Ma, who is the hospital's deputy director, told AFP in a video call from Wuhan. Hastily converted from sports stadiums, schools and cultural venues, Wuhan's 16 makeshift hospitals were designed to ease the burden on the city's overstretched healthcare system.
"When the hospital was opened, the facilities were only for controlling the outbreak, so the living conditions for patients and medical staff... were quite bad," he said in the interview arranged by the State Council's information office. "Once they arrived, they realised that there were several patients in a large open room and began to doubt whether they could be treated successfully," he said.
But according to Ma, none of the medical workers at the city's makeshift hospitals have been infected.
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