Thanks to the effort of medics including those from Fudan-Huashan Hospital, all module hospitals are closed with the decline in COVID-19 infection cases in Wuhan.

On March 10, with the last COVID-19 patient discharged from Wuchang Module Hospital in central Wuhan, it was shut down after 35 days’ operation since the outbreak.

During the peak of the outbreak, such makeshift treatment units played a significant role in containing the epidemic by contributing an extra 13,000 beds in the city. Wuchang Module Hospital was one of the first module hospitals put into use. By the afternoon of March 10, the hospital had received a total of 1,124 patients, among which 291 had been transferred and 833 had been discharged after recovery.

Medics from Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University were among the 863 medical workers dispatched to Wuchang Module Hospital. 35 days had passed and they still recalled their first day, when they were overwhelmed by over 300 admitted patients within the first 24 hours.

“We kind of felt reluctant to leave after so many things have happened. On the last night before the hospital was closed, I asked my colleagues in our group chat if anyone wanted to see the module hospital for the last time. I waited in the lounge downstairs and soon they all turned up.” Ma Xin, vice president of Huashan Hospital who led the hospital’s emergency medical team in Wuhan, wrote in his diary.

On the night of March 9, medics from Huashan Hospital hugged and best-wished the last patients to be discharged at Wuchang Module Hospital.

Editor: Deng Jianguo, Li Yijie