Xue Kaihua, an ambulance driver from Shanghai Medical Emergency Center, is on the way to transfer patients, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Shanghai medical transfer team worked day and night to transfer patients in Wuhan. Their hard work has brought hope to the patients.
WUHAN, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Since the novel coronavirus outbreak, 32 medical transfer teams from different parts of China have rushed to Wuhan to fight at the frontline.
Braving the danger of being exposed to the virus, they shuttle between hospitals and treating centers around the clock to transfer patients. Thanks to their hard work, a total of 7,343 infected patients, including 2,464 with severe symptoms, have been transferred and treated from Feb. 12 to March 10.
Shanghai transfer team once ran up to 20 trips a day to transfer over 100 patients, according to Liu Yi, head of the team.
"It's no easy job, but it's our crowning glory to see patients transferred safe and sound," Liu said.
Members of the medical transfer teams from Shanghai and Inner Mongolia disinfect a stretcher and their protective suits after sending patients to a hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Xue Kaihua, an ambulance driver from Shanghai Medical Emergency Center, takes an elevator to transfer patients with stretchers after he arrives at a hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Medical transfer team transfer a patient from a hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Chen Lihua (R), a member of the Inner Mongolia medical team, disinfects with the help of a colleague after transferring patients, at a medical emergency center in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Medical transfer teams from Shanghai and Inner Mongolia get ready to transfer patients from a hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Ambulances heading to a hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology are in line to transfer patients, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
An ambulance driver from Shanghai Medical Emergency Center waits for the next mission after sending patients to a hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Ambulance driver Lu Zhigang in his 50s, the oldest among his colleagues from Shanghai Medical Emergency Center, steers a vehicle in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Medical transfer team from Shanghai and Inner Mongolia transfer a patient with a stretcher to a hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Li Weina (L), a member of the Inner Mongolia medical team, wears goggles on the way to a hospital affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Medical transfer team members discuss the details of their transfer plan at a hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)■
