Volunteers gladly join frontline virus fight
China DailyDu Bin, director of the critical care department at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, leads a team in checking a COVID-19 patient in Wuhan, Hubei province, in April. On Jan 23, when Wuhan, Hubei province, the Chinese city hardest-hit by COVID-19, was locked down to stem the spread of the virus, Peking Union Medical College Hospital issued an open letter to solicit its medical workers to go to Wuhan to provide assistance to local hospitals. Within 12 hours, the first team of 121 medical workers from six hospitals in Beijing, including 21 from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, arrived in Wuhan, and devoted themselves to the fight against the pandemic. As an experienced doctor who took part in the fight against SARS-severe acute respiratory syndrome-in 2003, Han Ding, vice-president of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, was one of those who went to aid Wuhan in the first team.
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