CHANGSHA: An intensive care unit (ICU) nurse in central China’s Hunan Province, Xu Furong has for 14 years delivered intensive care to patients during the most vulnerable times of their lives.
“ICU nurses guard lives of those who are on the brink of death. It is our duty,” said Xu, a delegate to the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a head nurse at Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital.
In February 2020, she volunteered to join the Hunan medical team sent to help battle the COVID-19 epidemic in Huanggang City in neighboring Hubei Province.
Within three days of their arrival in Huanggang, Xu and her colleagues set up a temporary ICU and admitted 15 patients who were in critical condition.
In the span of 42 days, Xu and other team members treated a total of 49 critically ill patients. None of the medical staff was infected.
On the day they left, residents lined the street to see them off. “It’s all worth it,” Xu said.
Not long after returning from Huanggang, Xu, once again, offered to join a 12-member team of medical experts of Hunan Province to aid the fight against COVID-19 in Africa.
Xu and other team members visited more than 70 institutions and units in Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea. –Agencies
