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Chapter 282 The Dilemma of the Medical System

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    Chen Xin is only worried that the boiler cannot meet the heating needs, but in urban areas, this problem has become one of the primary problems faced by various shelters, posing severe challenges to the survival of survivors in the shelters.

    The boiler inside the shelter is a coal-fired boiler. Compared with oil-fired boilers or other heating methods, this type of boiler has lower operating costs and mature technology. However, it had been gradually phased out due to environmental issues before the disaster, and its thermal efficiency is not as good as that of new models.  gas boiler.

    However, due to its mature technology and relatively simple maintenance, coal-fired boilers are the most suitable heating equipment after a disaster.

    After all, whether a new boiler uses natural gas or oil, the maintenance cost is higher than that of a coal-fired boiler, both before and after a disaster.

    It's just that now the boilers in each shelter have been turned on to maximum power. They are devouring coal like monsters swallowing coal, emitting heat to supply each shelter, but it is still difficult to meet the heating needs of the shelters. The temperature inside each shelter  It has already fallen below zero.

    You must know that after the last power supply shortage in the urban area due to coal shortage, the city government took into consideration whether heating would be affected under the situation of coal shortage, and strengthened the cold protection and insulation measures inside each shelter.

    Theoretically, even if there is no heating, even if it is a severe cold of minus 40 degrees, the indoor temperature can be guaranteed not to fall below zero.

    But now, facing the extreme cold of more than 70 degrees below zero, even if the boilers are continuously heating, the temperature inside each shelter has already dropped to below zero, and is still falling further as the weather gets worse.

    Although the human body can temporarily resist and endure sub-zero low temperatures, and if you wear more clothes and move more, people will not freeze to death. However, various diseases and frostbite caused by low temperatures have brought difficulties to the medical system.  There was tremendous pressure.

    And in order to maintain body temperature in low-temperature environments, the human body will need to consume more food, which is also a great test for the food reserves of various shelters.

    In this case, the elderly and children are often the first to be unable to hold on.

    This has resulted in the infirmaries of various shelters being filled with the elderly and children who come to see the doctor, and those in serious condition need to be sent to the hospital.

    The surge in patients has also put the supply of medicines under strain, and the medical system itself has entered an overload state before the heating system. If there is a further surge in patients, the medical system will face collapse.

    In the hospital, even the original psychiatrist like Hongrui was transferred to the emergency department to help, working continuously for more than sixteen hours.

    However, there is still a steady stream of patients being sent to the hospital. Most of them are complications caused by hypothermia and frostbite in various parts. Although it is not difficult to deal with, there are still patients being sent to the hospital.  The personnel were put under great pressure and had no time to rest at all.

    The treatment of frostbite is not particularly troublesome. You only need to remove the patient from the low-temperature environment, allow the frostbitten area to warm up, keep it dry, and keep warm. For more severe cases, frostbite ointment can be applied for treatment.

    But this is a very cumbersome and troublesome process, because frostbite cannot be baked by fire. You can only use warm water to rewarm the frostbitten area, and you need to soak in warm water for half an hour to an hour.

    In the current low temperature environment, the warm water will cool down quickly, so someone must constantly change the water.

    ¡°And those who were sent to the hospital were all suffering from severe frostbite, which required further treatment, which further aggravated the workload of the doctors.

    In order to prevent all doctors from being overworked and leaving no doctors available, the hospital is also adjusting its personnel, allowing doctors who have worked for more than ten hours to rest first, and at the same time, people from other medical departments that are not very busy are transferred to supplement.  Keep the healthcare system functioning.

    Hong Rui became the first batch of doctors to be replaced because she had been busy for more than ten hours.

    At this time, Hongrui already looked very haggard, and no longer looked as delicate as she had seen in the last days that Chen Xin had seen before.

    In fact, Hongrui looks pretty good, but her face is haggard and the dark circles on her face are a bit heavy. Other doctors even had their skin peeled off because their hands had been massaging and rubbing the frostbitten areas of patients with frostbite.

    The doctors who were replaced sat down on the chairs in the lounge and fell asleep. More than ten hours of continuous work had already drained the last bit of their energy.

    ???Looking at him slumped in a chair and sleepingA crooked colleague, Hong Rui couldn't help but worry about what to do if everyone continued to be exhausted.

    However, she didn't have any good solution to this problem. In addition, after working for more than ten hours continuously, Hongrui could only go back to her office to take a good rest and recharge herself so that she could support herself during the shift later.  a while.

    As she walked to the office, the corridors of the hospital were crowded with patients.

    Some of these patients have already received treatment or are currently undergoing treatment, while others are still waiting to receive treatment.

    A considerable number of them are groaning in pain due to illness. Coupled with the crowding and cold, it makes this place look quite uncomfortable, as if it is full of suffering.

    Seeing this situation, Hongrui became even more worried. It was obvious that the patient could not receive timely treatment. This was enough to show that the medical system had exceeded its capacity, and if it continued like this, it would only make things worse.

    This made Hongrui feel more and more heavy-hearted. She walked through the crowd and returned to her office. She didn't even take off her shoes and lay down on the sofa in the office to get ready to sleep. In order to work better in the future, she must seize the time to sleep.  .

    In fact, if Chen Xin knew what was happening in the urban shelter now, he might sigh and say "Ice and Steam Age" sincerely did not deceive me.

    Although the game "Ice and Steam Age" is seriously pirated, the phrase "Is it really worth it?" is simply bullshit, and it is a complete mockery of order as inferior to faith.

    But many of the settings in the game are very real. At least if the temperature of the living environment is too low, it will lead to more patients. Patients will leave their jobs, causing the work efficiency of various facilities to collapse. There are not enough beds in the medical system, so patients will be treated lightly.  It is really no different from reality in that the disease becomes severe and severe patients will continue to die if they continue to be untreated.

    What is happening now in the urban shelter is such a scene. Compared with the game, there are still a few days to turn the situation around. As long as more medical facilities are built, the problem can be solved.  In reality, it is even more difficult to reverse the situation when encountering such a thing.

    Unless the temperature is allowed to rise again, this situation will only get worse and even become more dire due to the tight supply of coal.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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