Chapter 281: The dilemma of the healthcare system

Chen Xin was only worried that the boiler could not meet the heating needs, but in the urban area, this problem has become one of the most important problems faced by various shelters, and it has brought severe challenges to the survival of the survivors in the shelters.
The boiler inside the shelter is a coal-fired boiler. Compared with oil-fired boilers or other heating methods, this kind of boiler has lower operating cost and mature technology, but it has been gradually eliminated due to environmental protection issues before the disaster, and its thermal efficiency is not as good as the new type. Gas boiler.
However, coal-fired boilers have become the most suitable heating equipment after disasters because of their mature technology and relatively simple maintenance, coupled with the ease of storage and transportation of coal.
After all, whether the new boiler uses natural gas or fuel oil, the maintenance cost is higher than that of coal-fired boilers, whether before or after the disaster.
It’s just that the boilers in each refuge have been turned on to their maximum power. They are eating coal like a monster that devours coal and radiating heat to supply each refuge, but it is still difficult to meet the heating needs of the refuge and the temperature inside each refuge. It has already fallen below zero.
It is necessary to know that after the last time the urban area was short of electricity due to the shortage of coal, the city government took into account whether the heating will be affected under the situation of coal shortage, and strengthened the cold-proof and thermal insulation measures inside the shelters.
In theory, even if there is no heating, even if it is minus 40 degrees cold, it can ensure that the indoor temperature is not lower than zero.
But now facing the extreme cold of minus seventy degrees below zero, even if the boiler has been continuously heating, the temperature inside the shelters has already dropped below zero, and is still further decreasing with the bad weather.
Although the sub-zero low temperature can temporarily resist and persist for the human body, wear a few more clothes and more activities, and there will be no freezing to death, but various diseases and frostbite caused by low temperature will bring to the medical system There was tremendous pressure.
Moreover, the human body needs to consume more food in order to maintain body temperature under low temperature environment, which is also a great test for the food reserves of various refuges.
In this case, the elderly and children are often the first to be unable to hold on.
This has also led to the elderly and children in the medical offices of all refuges, and those in serious conditions need to be sent to the hospital.
The surge of patients has also put the supply of medicines into a state of tension. The medical system itself has also entered an overloaded state for the heating system. If the patient surges further, the medical system will face collapse.
In the hospital, even the original psychiatrist like Hong Rui was taken to the emergency department to help at this moment and worked continuously for more than 16 hours.
But there are still a steady stream of patients sent to the hospital, most of which are complications caused by hypothermia and frostbite in various parts. Although it is not difficult to deal with, there are always patients who are sent to the hospital. The staff brought great pressure and left them no time to rest.
The treatment of frostbite is not particularly troublesome. You only need to get the patient out of the low-temperature environment, warm up the frostbite area, keep it dry, and keep warm. In severe cases, you can apply frostbite ointment for treatment.
But this is a very cumbersome and troublesome process, because frostbite cannot be roasted by fire. You can only use warm water to warm up the frostbite area, and you need to use 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 change the water constantly.
What's more, those who came to the hospital were suffering from severe frostbite, which required further treatment, which intensified the workload of doctors.
In order to prevent all doctors from being overworked and no doctors available, the hospital is also adjusting its staff, allowing doctors who have worked for more than ten hours to rest first, and at the same time recruiting people from other medical departments who are not very busy to supplement. Maintain the operation of the medical system.
Because Hong Rui had been busy for more than ten hours, he became the first group of doctors to be replaced.
At this time, Hong Rui already looked very haggard, no longer the one that Chen Xin had seen before and remained exquisite in the last days.
In fact, Hong Rui's appearance is still good, but his face is haggard, and the dark circles on his face are a bit heavy. Other doctors have even been soaked and peeled because their hands have been helping patients with frostbite massage and rubbing the frostbitten parts.
The doctors who were replaced to rest sat down on the lounge chair and fell asleep. Ten hours of continuous work had already drained their last bit of energy.
Looking at the colleague who was lying slumped in the chair and sleeping, Hong Rui couldn't help worrying in his heart. If this continues, what should I do if everyone is tired and paralyzed.
However, she did not have a good solution to this matter. In addition, after working for more than ten hours continuously, Hong Rui could only go back to her office to take a good rest, and she had enough energy to support more during the shift. 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 under treatment, and some are still waiting for treatment.
Quite a few of them are groaning in pain because of their illness, and the crowding and cold make this place look quite uncomfortable, as if it is full of suffering~EbookFREE.me~Welfare] Give you a cash red envelope! Follow the vx public [Book Friends Base Camp] to receive it!
Seeing this situation, Hong Rui's heart is even more worried. Obviously, the patient cannot be treated in time. This is enough to show that the medical system has exceeded its capacity, and this will only make things worse.
This made Hong Rui feel more and more heavy~EbookFREE.me~ through the crowd and returned to her office, she lay directly on the sofa in the office to sleep without taking off her shoes, in order to be able to work better in the future , She must hurry to sleep.
In fact, if Chen Xin knew what was happening in the refuge in the urban area, he might sigh that "The Age of Ice and Vapor" does not deceive me.
Although "Age of Ice and Steam" is a serious game, the sentence "Is it really worth it" is simply shit, it is a mockery of order is not as good as belief.
But many of the settings in the game are very real. At least if the living environment is too low, it will cause more patients. Patients will leave their jobs and cause the efficiency of various facilities to collapse. There are not enough beds in the medical system, which makes patients feel relieved. The disease becomes severe, and the critically ill patients will continue to die after continuing to receive no treatment. This is really no different from reality.
In the urban refuge, what is happening now is just such a scene. There are even a few days to reverse the situation compared to the game. 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 things.
Unless the temperature rises again, this situation will only intensify, and even become more terrible because of the tight coal supply.