Chapter 33: Epidemic Prevention Department (Vote for me! Vote for me!)

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  The school hospital has a total of six departments, namely: Emergency Department, Internal Medicine Department, Surgery Department, Otolaryngology Department, Traditional Chinese Medicine Department and Health Care Department. Li Jingyi was the last one to enter the conference room.

  Li Jingyi saw that Dean Yu and the two deputy deans, as well as the directors of the other five departments, were all ready to begin. She felt a bit embarrassed, thinking it was a loss of face, after all, this was her first time attending a department head-level meeting, which was also the highest level meeting in the school hospital. As a newcomer, she had kept everyone waiting. Li Jingyi carefully said: "I'm sorry, the emergency department has too many patients today and I really couldn't get away!"

  Yu Dean and the two deputy deans did not have any opinions, Yu Dean smiled and said: "The emergency department is doing a good job, if there are patients, they should be taken care of first!"

  Originally, there were other department heads who wanted to say a few words against Li Jingyi. After hearing Director Yu's words, they didn't dare to make any more moves, but the way they looked at Li Jingyi naturally had a hint of hostility.

  Li Jingyi looked at Dean Yu with gratitude, and from the gaze of other department heads, Li Jingyi could see that two department heads were dissatisfied with her. She could only pretend not to notice, hesitated for a moment, and quickly went to Dean Yu's side, saying: "Dean, I have an emergency situation to report!"

  "What's going on?" The dean actually valued Li Jingyi very much, after all, the emergency department under Li Jingyi's management had given the school hospital a great reputation today.

  "Director, we just found a carrier of the THC4 variant virus in our emergency room!"

  "What? A carrier of the HTC4 variant virus? When did this happen?" The principal's face changed, and he couldn't underestimate the HTC4 variant virus. Today's meeting with department heads was also about preventive measures against the HTC4 variant virus, but he hadn't expected something like this to happen before the document had even been opened and read aloud.

  Everyone present knows about the HTC4 virus, but only the hospital director and internal medicine director know about the variant of the HTC4 virus. The hospital director learned it from his superiors, while the internal medicine director knew it from watching the news.

  "Just now, Dr. Xiao Lin in our emergency department has made a diagnosis!" Li Jingyi replied.

  "Is this Dr. Xiao Lin from the emergency department? A young man in his early twenties, what does he know? Moreover, he studied emergency medicine, not infectious diseases, how can he be so rash in drawing conclusions? Don't try to sensationalize!" The director of surgery said somewhat displeased, these past few days the number of patients in the emergency department suddenly increased, this afternoon they even pulled a doctor from surgery over to help, as the director of surgery, he definitely had other thoughts, feeling like the emergency department was stealing their thunder.

  Dean Yu was indeed aware of some of Xiao Lin's background, and his academic qualifications alone had already left Dean Yu astonished. To know that even in the entire Huaxia, there were probably no more than a hundred people who could graduate from Harvard Medical School, and those who specialized in emergency medicine could be counted on one hand, all of whom were now renowned experts in Huaxia.

  "Director Qin, don't say that, Dr. Xiao's abilities are clear to everyone!" Dean Yu said lightly, then turned to Li Jingyi and asked: "So what's the current situation? By the way, how did Dr. Xiao confirm that the patient was infected with the HTC4 variant virus? I only received the documents last night, and today's meeting was originally about the HTC4 variant virus, but it was delayed by that girl who jumped off the building this morning!"

  Li Jingyi shook her head. The dean was now asking the very question she wanted to know: why did they have to take that patient to where he lived for a confirmed diagnosis?

  "I'm not very clear about this either, but Dr. Xiao and the patient are now in his dormitory room, asking us to notify the epidemic prevention department of Yanjing City as soon as possible to come and take them away! Also, our school must carry out a comprehensive disinfection, Dr. Xiao suggested using the disinfectant used for the HTC4 virus four years ago, with double the dosage!" Li Jingyi said.

  The Dean, however, knew about the terror of the HTC4 variant virus and picked up the document in front of him to hand it over to the Vice Dean on his right: "Old Zhang, I'll contact the superior epidemic prevention department, you read this document out loud!"

  "Good Dean!" Vice President Zhang nodded.

  The dean was also a straightforward person and immediately got up and walked out the door, returning to his office to call the relevant department.

  The dean also had many questions he wanted to ask Xiao Lin, but it was clearly not the right time yet.

  After receiving the call from the president of Yanda Hospital, the Yanjing North District Epidemic Prevention Station did not dare to slack off and immediately agreed to dispatch epidemic prevention personnel to Yanda. Regarding the epidemic prevention measures for the HTC4 variant virus, although there is no specific medicine for epidemic prevention, it was pointed out in the document that wherever the HTC4 variant virus is found, local disinfection must be carried out.

  While Yanda is such a large school, the amount of disinfectant needed is quite huge. Fortunately, the domestic epidemic prevention mechanism has already been very mature, and within half an hour, enough medicine was transported from other epidemic prevention stations to disinfect all corners of Yanda once.

  While Yenching North District Epidemic Prevention Station received the call from President Yu, on the one hand, it started preparing to go to Yenching University campus for disinfection. On the other hand, it reported to Yenching Health Bureau.

  Just half an hour later, this message reached the ears of the top leaders of Yanjing, a phone call mobilized the enthusiasm for disinfection of more than 100,000 teachers and students.

  Xiao Lin and Tongtong had been waiting in the room for the arrival of the epidemic prevention department. An hour later, three health workers wearing special protective clothing rang the doorbell.

  Seeing the fully armed epidemic prevention personnel appearing at the door of their own home, Xiao Lin was a bit speechless. Is this not being overly cautious? Thinking back to the virus attack four years ago, it must have left the epidemic prevention department of Huaxia in a state of panic.

  "Excuse me, are you Dr. Xiao Lin and student Tong Tong?" asked a staff member wearing special epidemic prevention clothing in a serious tone, sounding like a middle-aged man in his 40s.

  "Uh, I am!" Xiao Lin nodded and said: "In fact, for the HTC4 variant virus, don't be overly cautious. Although its transmission method is saliva-borne, there has been no large-scale outbreak in Jingliang Province so far, which shows that this virus does not have a high survival rate in the air. Although the incubation period is a bit longer!" The incubation period of the HTC4 virus back then was around 3 to 5 days, and it would only start to break out after the incubation period. Now, from the outbreak in Jingliang Province to now, more than ten days have passed, but there has been no explosion of the HTC4 variant virus, which means that this variant virus has an even longer incubation period.

  The middle-aged man frowned and said seriously, "Any kind of mutant virus is extremely terrifying. I don't think we are all in a state of panic!" After finishing speaking, he walked closer to Xiao Lin's room.