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Quarantine of two Beijing hospitals lifted
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-05-07 10:43
The respiratory disease wards with two hospitals in Beijing were announced to
be lifted out of isolation on Thursday as no new cases of SARS infection have
ever been found after two weeks' isolation.
Flanked by flowers, 159 medical workers, in-patients and
helpers, all smiling, unveiled face and walked out of the strictly quarantined
sections at Jiangong Hospital and at Renmin Hospital affiliated to the Peking
University.
Medical staff and patients in the
Beijing Jiangong Hospital celebrate their release from SARS quarantine May
6, 2004. On April 22, a nurse with the hospital was confirmed as having
contracted the disease, prompting the quarantine of these medical staff
and patients. [newsphoto] |
On April 2, a nurse surnamed Li from Jiangong Hospital of Beijing was
diagnosed to have contracted the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) while
receiving medical treatment at the ICU of Renmin Hospital.
To prevent SARS spreading, the Beijing municipal health authorities on the
same day ordered isolation of the respiratory diseases wards with the both
hospitals where the nurse used to seek medical treatment. And people who have
had close contacts with the nurse were also put under strict medical
surveillance and epidemiological investigation.
Jin Dapeng, head of the Beijing municipal administration for public health,
said when the isolation was in place, all in-patients with the two hospitals
were asked to take temperature on a daily basis.
And disease control workers carefully treated specimens collected from the
nurse for medical observation and thoroughly disinfected all the infected places
so that no new cases of SARS infection have happened at the two hospitals.
According to Jin, the nurse, the first diagnosed SARS patient in Beijing this
spring, was been discharged from hospital on Wednesday after having fully
recovered from the diseases.
The two hospitals will soon resume normal medical service, scientific
research and teaching work after a thorough disinfection, said
Jin.
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