Here the parents take care of their baby, instead of the nurses. Takinbg temperature, cleaning, using the nedbuliser (as shown in the father's hand).
The nurses prepare the infusion for each patient in the morning. Most patients will need a infusion everyday, and they tend to mix all the medication they need into one bottle of fluid
A snap shot of the ward. very crowded. These are additional beds for overflowed patients. It costs 42 RMB per day.
The beds are put up until the lift. And you can notice the stairs are gated during ward round times, so no one can leave or enter the ward during rounds. There is also the only elevator in the hospital, that is not big enough for patient's bed to enter.
Here we can see the corridor of the ward. On the left side is the nursing station where doctors and nurses work. On the left are the double and triple rooms. Doctors spend a lot of their time in the nursing station writing up history and progress. They use Chinese and do not use short hands in their patient record significantly increased the time they spend writing. You can also see beds in the corridor.
Each in patient must sign a agreement to pay for any damage they cause the hospital, some of the prices of items are quoted as examples
Here I caught a nurse packing and sorting out medications on the floor. Bad practice.
Twice a week they will put up some "Huang Pak" and burn it around the ward to "sterilise" the ward..
Here is the Huang Pak before it was burn. They are shoaked in alcohol.
They pay 6 dollars for SOPD (Expert.) For "Non-expert" it is 3 dollars
There computerised ward management system. Didnt spend enough time to find out how it work
"The patient in the ward at a glance" The red and green tag represent different nursing priority
This mess will happen everyday and nobody bothered to fixed a tray for the printed paper.
Their drip stands are unwheeled. So if you want to move around during an infusion. You need to have someone hold up the drip stand for you.
Dr Woo is having dinner with us. He has just graduated for 7 months.
The trolley in the supermarket has a built in toy cart. Cool!!
A snap shot taken during a ward round
chest physio machine. I have never seen this before and neither have I seen a physiotherapist or other allied health worker in the ward so far.
another shot of the ward
This is taken in the SOPD, there was this kid that has a large metal ring around the neck. No one knows what it is for
opd is very crowded. You can only see the back of the 2 doctors.
Shannon talking to a cute baby in the OPD
infusion needle that they use. It is not a indwelling IV catheter, So you need to punture the skin each time you need to infuse something (that means at least daily) Quite bad
That is the menu served by the hospital canteen. Never tried, heard it sucks. Anyway. the patients eat the same food. There is no way you can ask for DM or low salt diet.
An Empty Ribavarin(the infamous SARS drug) Box with a patient's name of it. The patient does not need Ribavarin. They use empty drug boxes as speciment holder. If you notice a hole on the box on the upper right hand corner. That was where the test tube of blood was put there to clot in open air. Bad. All their lab results are slighly off. Most emzyme readings are elevated due to haemolysis. No culture has yield useful information as well.
shannon in the short sleeve white coat
me, nothing too fancy
directory of the hospial, listing out the services.
infusion room. This outpatient infusion is always full. People will just come it for an infusion and then go home. They just like infusion a lot in China.
