The Sixth Floor: Wuhan Critical Care Unit | Esquire China
Chen Weixi—Esquire China
This 33-minute documentary by Chen Weixi for Esquire China presents the perspective of a team of medical workers from Nanjing, a government dispatch to the Guanggu branch of Wuhan’s Tongji Hospital on February 9 to treat COVID-19 patients. 17 medical teams from six provinces set up wards at Guanggu, adding 850 beds to the hospital’s capacity. Nearly as soon as the Nanjing team arrived, desperate patients were pounding on the door of their new ward, begging to be admitted. Over the course of several days, beginning on the day of the team’s arrival, Chen embedded himself in the hospital alongside these medical workers as they treated patients suffering from COVID-19. Despite the chaos and urgency of the situation, Chen shows how medical workers cared for patients beyond their medical needs, spending time comforting a disoriented elderly man with dementia, consoling a patient whose mother had died from the virus, and helping an elderly couple in separate wards see each other, even if only on screen. The video humanizes the patients and caregivers battling a merciless war.
(Note: This video is only licensed to be viewed within China.)
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This 33-minute documentary by Chen Weixi for Esquire China presents the perspective of a team of medical workers from Nanjing, a government dispatch to the Guanggu branch of Wuhan’s Tongji Hospital on February 9 to treat COVID-19 patients. 17 medical teams from six provinces set up wards at Guanggu, adding 850 beds to the hospital’s capacity. Nearly as soon as the Nanjing team arrived, desperate patients were pounding on the door of their new ward, begging to be admitted. Over the course of several days, beginning on the day of the team’s arrival, Chen embedded himself in the hospital alongside these medical workers as they treated patients suffering from COVID-19. Despite the chaos and urgency of the situation, Chen shows how medical workers cared for patients beyond their medical needs, spending time comforting a disoriented elderly man with dementia, consoling a patient whose mother had died from the virus, and helping an elderly couple in separate wards see each other, even if only on screen. The video humanizes the patients and caregivers battling a merciless war.
(Note: This video is only licensed to be viewed within China.)