Doctor Treating Patients for Coronavirus in Wuhan Dies; Why Are Doctors Wearing Diapers?; British Man Quarantined for Coronavirus Speaks Out.
After working to save the lives of patients who contracted the coronavirus, a doctor at a hospital in Wuhan, China has now died after contracting the virus himself.
The China Global Television Network shared the news in a tweet.
“Liang Wudong, a doctor at Hubei Xinhua Hospital who had been at the front line of the #CoronavirusOutbreak battle in Wuhan, dies from the virus at age 62.”
Officials announced 15 additional deaths in the Hubei Province on Saturday, bringing the overall death total to 41. Hubei Province is where the outbreak first began.
More than 1,200 cases have now been confirmed in China, and health officials are struggling to contain the virus. Be aware of symptoms that begin with a fever, followed by coughing and shortness of breath. There is currently no cure or vaccine.
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The Washington Post has reported that the doctors fighting the coronavirus in China are wearing “adult diapers.” Why? Well, for one thing, they have little time to go to the toilet because of how serious the situation is there.
But the main reason for the diapers is that the doctors are afraid of ripping their hazmat suits if they try to disrobe. They worry that if their suit rips, they won’t be able to receive a replacement because of limited supplies.
“We know that the protective suit we wear could be the last one we have, and we can’t afford to waste anything,” said one doctor, who calls himself Mr. Do.
A lockdown has been in effect since Wednesday. The city is rushing to build a new 1,000-bed hospital that they hope to use as early as February 3.
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Last week, 27-year-old Craig Dillon was put in quarantine for the coronavirus. He fell ill after flying home from a holiday in Australia via China and Bangkok.
“Everyone was wearing masks except me, but I couldn’t buy one at the airport because they’d all been sold out,” he said. “I thought I might have the flu because I had a bad cough and was feeling weak and tired, but I put it down to jet lag.”
He was able to make it home to Britain even though he felt unwell. Officials asked him to walk through a temperature scanner twice while at the airport.
After waking up at home later that night feeling sweaty and ill, he decided to call 111. The operators asked Dillon if he’d been to China recently. He decided then to go to the hospital.
Dillon felt so weak when he arrived that he had to lean up against a wall. When a doctor learned that Dillon had recently been in China, they grabbed him by the arm and led him outside of the hospital.
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“A nurse came out and gave me a mask and then I was shown to this secret door around the back,” said Dillon. “I was told to walk down the corridor and arrived in this hospital room with a bed in the middle, with all this equipment around it–completely prepped and ready to go.”
“It had a big one-way glass window with an intercom in it so you could talk through the glass.
“I was feeling so bad I was curled up on the bed and all I could hear was this vacuum cleaner noise. When they wrote notes they would hold them up against the glass so the people outside could read them.”
Thankfully this story has a happy ending. Dillon did not have the coronavirus after all. After waiting three hours to get the test results back, doctors finally diagnosed him with pneumonia.
