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Health: Chinese hospitals congested by an influx of young patients
Chinese hospitals are saturated. Many children are affected by respiratory illness. – (franceinfo)
Chinese hospitals are saturated. Many children are affected by respiratory illness.
In a hospital in Shanghai (China), a dense crowd of parents and children are worried, Friday November 24. The influx of patients is due to a respiratory illness that appears to affect many miners. The observation is similar elsewhere in the country. In a hospital in Beijing (China), for example, the queue is getting longer. Chinese authorities attribute the influx of patients to the abandonment of health restrictions in recent years and to the cold.
WHO requests detailed information from China
For its part, the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned and has “made a formal request to China for detailed information on an increase in respiratory illnesses”, she said in a press release. For Bruno Mégarbane, head of the intensive care unit at Lariboisière hospital in Paris, all scenarios are possible. “Because of what happened four years ago, we cannot formally rule out the emergence of a new virus”he indicates.
