The true story of building and equipping Wuhan Hospital in 10 days, China
Recently, a post spread on social media about the completion of a hospital in China in just ten days, while there are hospitals in our country that need ten years or more. Of course, the reprimand is a matter of political mockery of the bureaucracy that characterizes officials in developing countries in general. On the other hand, another publication spread in China, explaining precisely how this hospital was built within ten days. And to enlighten public opinion, I decided to transfer this experience so that we can learn about the secret of this event that dazzled the world.
In front of the alarming increase in the number of people infected with the Corona virus, Wuhan is suffering from an acute shortage of beds designated to receive new patients. The proposed solutions are very limited: transferring the infected to other provinces with the risk of spreading the infection; Establishing treatment tents by setting up military field hospitals, with the risk of leakage; Finally, it was agreed that it is inevitable to build a large hospital with all the elements of a modern hospital within ten days. How did that happen?
On the morning of January 23, the China Third Construction Bureau, which is a state-owned enterprise under the China Construction Group (CSCEC), received an urgent order from the Chinese government to coordinate with Wuhan Construction Engineering Ltd and Wuhan Municipal Council to build a high-energy hospital It has a capacity of 1,000 beds on a land of 50,000 square meters, on the shore of Wuhan's Lac Zhiyin. He put at his disposal 7,500 masons and about 1,000 pieces of machinery and equipment.
Without wasting time, China IPPR International Engineering Ltd. extracted the drawings and designs of the Little Tang Shan Hospital, which was built in Beijing 17 years ago at the height of SARS infection. severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), updated with the Wuhan Hospital site characteristics. In just 78 minutes, the feasibility study was submitted to CMC General Institute of Architecture of Design and Research, where it was scrutinized by Director of Surveying and Design Dr. Huang Xi Qiu before approval.
Subsequently, the institute assembled 60 designers in one hour, and also announced a volunteer project that enabled it to mobilize hundreds of BIM designers across the country, which enabled it to finish the design plan within 24 hours, and put the final touches on the drawings Construction in consultation with the construction company within 60 hours.
It is now possible to start the preparation, construction and repair work. In parallel with the Wuhan Airport Development Group's construction site leveling, road engineering and sewage excavation, High Energy Environment and Dongfang Yuhong were tasked with forming a joint engineering construction team responsible for building facilities. Leakage control, sewage treatment and medical waste transportation.
Meanwhile, more than 260 workers of the State Grid Co of China began working 24 hours non-stop to relocate two 10kV high-voltage lines, install 24 square power transformers, and lay 8,000 meters of cable. , In order to secure the power transmission on schedule before January 31. During the works, Huizhou Hyperpower Batteries Ltd. was called upon to provide silent generators to solve the problem of emergency power supply for key equipment.
As modern hospitals cannot do without the Internet, Huawei, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and many small and medium enterprises and contractors have been recruited to cooperate to provide 5G signal coverage and secure cloud resources, computing and storage equipment for the platform, as well as programming a remote disease diagnosis system with the Chinese People's Army Hospital (PLA); All this within 36 hours.
In order to speed up the pace of construction, the necessary building materials had to be provided. PetroChina provided the site with the necessary fuel for heating, heating water, and operating public facilities for workers, such as temporary housing units and bathrooms.
In order to increase the effectiveness of the various financiers, each company was assigned a type of building material, for example, the National Railway Company relied on iron, Huaxin cement, Hebei Junhui paint, and energy-saving plastic and rubber thermal insulation materials from Huamei ), fire alarm systems from Haiwang (Golf Security), 4,800 pieces of prefabricated steel vehicles from China Metallurgical Group, pipelines from Yonggao Co., and 50 generator sets from Mike Mate (Maige Mite), and more than fifty leading public and private companies in their field.
During the construction process, food and water had to be provided to thousands of workers. Here, the National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuff Company (COFCO) volunteered to supply the three daily meals, while Alibaba Group provided shopping equipment inside the temporary residential area, enabling workers to purchase what they want of daily necessities without the need to pay cash.
After the completion of the construction work, which lasted for three days, the services of Juntian Shengguan (China Construction Deepwear) were used, which recruited one hundred project managers and five hundred workers who, over a three-day period, laid the internal and external insulating plastic floors for all facilities, and the interior decoration of more than 200 suites.
Now that the infrastructure has been completed, the construction of the hospital information system has begun with the help of 2000 computers with a professional on-site service and maintenance team from LENOVO Group. Various booths are also equipped with LCD screens from TCL Electronics, tablet computers from Xiaomi, electronic security equipment and cloud computing platform from Ziguang, Fiberhome and other innovative companies in the field of Internet and informatics.
Since the project is a hospital, medical equipment is indispensable such as CT equipment, intensive care room equipment, air purification units, thermal imaging equipment, ultraviolet disinfection lamps, medical lighting equipment, beds, blankets, chairs, etc., and medical services robots have been used, which Its effectiveness has been proven in cases where the patient is isolated from the outside world.
After the completion of the installation of air conditioners and the arrival of medical consumables, the hospital, which was named Hooshen Shan (Holy Fire Mountain), is ready to receive doctors, nurses, and patients, ten days after the start of work on the hospital site.
Through this ambitious project, it appears to us how China looked like a musical band in which the state plays the role of maestro, while every interest and company performs the role it masters with high discipline and coordination.
Finally, through this experience, we can learn about some of the mechanisms of the Chinese model, which showed that although China resorted to privatization like other developing countries in the early eighties, the government retained its influence on the economy and social projects. This is evident in its recruitment of public and private sector companies in order to serve the best interest of the country.
Since we are in the process of crystallizing a new development model for our country, it is necessary to reconsider the role of the state (government and authority) in the economy and social work in general and the health sector in particular. The committee in charge can study the Chinese model to take advantage of some of its social advantages.
Finally, we Moroccans, who have benefited from the aid of Chinese medical teams since 1975, cannot but express our full support for the Chinese government and people in this ordeal, and we hope that it will regain its vitality to play its role as a strong defender of developing countries in international forums.
