Shanghai nurses team take train to Wuhan
The 50-member team of nurses left Shanghai for Wuhan by train on Monday night.
A team of 50 nurses from hospitals in Shanghai left for Wuhan, epicenter of the current coronavirus outbreak, on Monday night.
They will work in hospitals in the Hubei Province capital, the Shanghai Health Commission said.
The nurses are from the respiratory disease, infectious disease, general physician and intensive care departments of 40 local hospitals.
Leader of the team Li Xiaojing from Punan Hospital said: ”I have full experience on emergency tasks through supporting in Beijing during the SARS outbreak and the earthquake in Sichuan Province. I will do my best to fulfil the task this time.”
It is the second large medical team Shanghai has dispatched to Wuhan. On Friday, a 136-member team consisting of doctors and nurses from 52 hospitals left Shanghai and they have already started work in Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital, a designated hospital for coronavirus patients.
