Even though local authorities have rushed to build new hospitals, first-hand reports still describe inadequate hospital beds and medical care.
was already at 94%, and that the city's medical institutions had a total staff of 136,300.
This year, however, the rapid increase in coronavirus patients into the tens of thousands is stretching the medical system further.in Wuhan of the virus, according to the national health commission. More than 10,000 patients have been discharged, while the current number of confirmed cases is more than 34,600.Amid the sheer number of cases, many locals say it's difficult to get medical care.
It took more than one week in early February for Ao Mulin, a Phoenix TV reporter, to get a hospital bed for his father who was sick with the new virus. Due to an extreme shortage of medical resources in the early days of the outbreak, Ao said his father could not find a bed at three separate hospitals in Wuhan. He was finally hospitalized on Feb. 3. His father is currently in a critical condition and relying on an artificial lung for his life, Ao said.
Many coronavirus patients' families have turned to the public for help, with some even turning to social media. "Pneumonia patients ask for help" became a "super topic" on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform, with more than 3 billion views since the topic was initiated on Feb. 5.
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