Ti passed quickly, nearly three hours and fifteen minutes, and the plane safely landed at Tongren Airport. Now, they had arrived in the Southwest, specifically Miaojiang.
Ye Qiu and Wen Xin, Zhou Wenting, along with other dical staff, disembarked the plane where Pang Xinhua and Han Dexi were standing. Han Dexi looked at everyone and said, "This is your last chance to think it over. If anyone is scared, you can stay here."
Now that they had reached here, what was there to fear? If they backed out now, they would just be laughed at.
Even if they didn’t go, other supporting dical staff would still go to treat the patients.
Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting waited there, and soon a bus arrived to take them to the village where the infectious disease had broken out, as arranged by the authorities.
On the bus, except for Ye Qiu, everyone else seed more tense than they were on the plane.
Especially Wen Xin, she felt like she was back in middle school during the outbreak of an epidemic, where she was quarantined for a long ti because a classmate’s family was infected.
Now, once they entered the village, they would be isolated from the outside world. Until an effective treatnt was found, and the source of the infection identified, they wouldn’t be able to leave the village.
So, as Han Dexi had just said, this was their last decision, but since they were already here, there was no chance to back out.
Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, and Wen Xin sat there, with many doctors and dical staff from Jinling People’s Hospital and the Jinling Affiliated Hospital after hearing about Ye Qiu.
As for Jinling Chinese dicine Hospital, there were few cases of Ye Qiu treating patients.
But now, it was about treating an infectious disease, one that no one knew if it was a plague or sothing else. They feared that if they got infected, the result would be the sa as those villagers.
After the bus left the airport and drove for about an hour and a half, Ye Qiu looked out the window, seeing that the road outside was getting harder to drive on, with mountain roads and dirt roads being the main paths.
However, fortunately, they could continue by vehicle.
After about another half an hour, the bus stopped. Ye Qiu saw a military vehicle and a police car ahead, which had co to take them into the quarantined village.
When Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, and others got off with Han Dexi and Pang Xinhua, an officer in military uniform approached and said, "Hello, I am Li Qing from the nearby Military Region. Are you Director Han and Director Pang from Jinling?"
"Commander Li, we are." Han Dexi and Pang Xinhua replied respectively.
"The entire area is now quarantined, and to prevent outsiders from entering and spreading the infection, the periter is guarded by the military. However, don’t worry, your living arrangents inside are taken care of,"
The other police car was left by the local police station. Now the two military vehicles could only take a third of the people inside, while the rest had to wait here.
As a few people were being arranged to go in first, Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, and Wen Xin went along.
Zhou Wenting wore a white coat, and Wen Xin a nurse’s outfit, making their roles clear at a glance. But Ye Qiu, dressed in regular clothes, didn’t look much like a doctor, which puzzled Li Qing.
"Commander Li, this young man is also a doctor, and his dical skills are excellent, so we specially invited him over. Of course, he’s not from our hospital," Han Dexi said.
"That’s good," Li Qing replied.
Now that Ye Qiu was here, the bus had left, so there was no way to let Ye Qiu leave.
Ye Qiu and Wen Xin sat in the military vehicle, which had been modified to seat more than ten people. Sitting in the vehicle, Ye Qiu glanced out the window from ti to ti.
After about half an hour, as the military vehicle drove, Ye Qiu noticed soldiers guarding several intersections, clearly preventing outsiders from breaking in.
Now, the village’s livestock, cattle, and sheep, as well as the villagers, were all infected. Moreover, the first group including doctors and nurses from the township health center and county doctors and nurses also showed symptoms.
The death toll was over thirty people, and now more than fifty were infected.
Sitting in the vehicle, Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting looked outside, seeing occasional houses, but at present, they seed uninhabited.
"Do Miao people live here?" Ye Qiu asked.
"Not just Miao people, there are Han people and other ethnic minorities too," the military officer Li Qing replied.
However, from the appearance of the houses outside, it looked like a Miao village, but quite dispersed.
As they approached the village entrance, the soldier parked the vehicle, and when Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, and Han Dexi got down, they saw several dozen buildings scattered throughout the village, mainly built of stone and wood.
For now, the dical personnel providing aid and staff were staying in tents outside, rather than in those houses.
The tents were mostly near the village committee, and Ye Qiu and Wen Xin, with so simple dical equipnt, followed Han Dexi over.
They still had to report to the person in charge here before proceeding.
Now that they were inside, everything would definitely be coordinated centrally.
Ye Qiu already slled an unpleasant odor, probably mixed with the scent of Western dicine. Ye Qiu, Zhou Wenting, and Wen Xin followed Han Dexi to the village committee, and after reporting to headquarters, they t with the local county health bureau leader in charge.
Although he wasn’t the highest-ranking official here, being a local, everyone followed his arrangents.
Now, Western and Chinese dicine doctors were separated, while female nurses were assigned to care for other patients.
The previous nurses had been infected by the disease, so the new nurses were sent to take over the care.
While Wen Xin was assigned to patient care, Zhou Wenting was placed with the Western doctors, but Ye Qiu thought it would be better for her to stay by his side to take notes.
"Director Wei, I’d like to see the patients," Ye Qiu said.
"And you are?" Director Wei asked, puzzled.
To avoid further trouble, Ye Qiu could only say, "I’m a disciple of Old Han, here to learn from him."
"You’ve got guts," Director Wei comnted.
Letting Ye Qiu follow Han Dexi, Han Dexi was unsure what to say since Ye Qiu claid to be his disciple.
As Ye Qiu was about to follow Han Dexi to see other patients, a chief physician suddenly exclaid, "Director Wei, that female reporter’s condition is very serious."
Female reporter Ma Wenwen?
Upon hearing this, Director Wei got anxious. Ma Wenwen was from East Sea City, with a significant background, and was the first to co into this mountain village for an interview following the sudden outbreak. Unexpectedly, she had been infected within a week of arriving here with an unknown infectious disease.
Now, Ma Wenwen’s condition, based on the symptoms of other infected individuals, was already at the mid to late stages of the disease, and with current treatnts, there seed to be no effect.
"Send her to the critical care unit!" Director Wei instructed.
Though he was the county health bureau’s director, he had previously served as a director at the county’s First People’s Hospital, so he was well aware of these situations.
However, given the female reporter’s condition, it seed dire, with no specific dicine available; no matter how hard they tried, it seed futile.
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