Chapter 116: Emergency Room 3 Overcrowded
Yue Wentong’s narrowed eyes furrowed when he saw someone suddenly grab Xie Wanying’s sleeve.
The hand holding onto her white coat belonged to a child. Xie Wanying looked down to see a little girl, about seven years old, with a face on the verge of tears, so pitiful it tugged at one’s heartstrings.
“Doctor, doctor, please save my dad, he’s inside!” The child’s hoarse little voice, filled with despair and anxiety, kept calling out.
“Where is your mother?” Xie Wanying couldn’t help but ask the child.
It was entirely irrational for a child to be left alone here with a patient. But the current situation could only mean one thing.
“My mom is gone. I came from my hometown to spend the New Year with my dad. He works here alone.” The seven-year-old child was already speaking like an adult, reporting the situation to the doctor meticulously.
Hearing this, the surrounding crowd and medical staff who could hear the child speak were just as lost for words as Xie Wanying.
“Junior sister.” Huang Zhilei called out.
Xie Wanying could only let go of the child’s hand, comforting her, “Don’t worry, your dad will be alright.”
Yes, yes. The child, like a little rabbit, obediently nodded and listened to the doctor sister, waiting outside.
She followed her senior brother into the resuscitation room. The cramped room, originally meant for one patient, was now divided by curtains with at least three patients inside. Today was indeed as her senior brother had predicted; the emergency room was overwhelmed with patients.
Not knowing which patient was the child’s father, Xie Wanying looked over each one: among the three patients, the youngest was a man in his thirties, with an IV bag labeled with the surname Liu. He must be the child’s father.
Another patient was a much older woman with a gastric tube inserted in her nostrils for drainage, suspected clinically of gastrointestinal bleeding. There were no available beds in either the gastroenterology or surgery departments.
The last patient was a car accident victim, lying next to Father Liu, looking deathly pale.
When she followed her senior brother over, Xie Wanying firmly pulled the curtain again to hide the view from the bed next to it, but from the corner of her eye, she could see the extreme fear in Father Liu’s eyes. No patient would be unafraid to see another patient next to them die.
“What’s the situation?” Huang Zhilei asked the on-duty surgical doctor in the emergency department.
“Don’t even mention it. When we got there after the call from 120, they hadn’t made the situation clear. Arriving at the scene, brain fluid was already spraying out of the nose. I thought calling down your neurosurgery department would be pointless. He had a cardiac arrest as soon as we got back, pressing on his chest was just to give the family some closure.” The emergency surgical doctor spoke with a tone suggesting neurosurgery should hurry and show some gratitude.
Of course, Huang Zhilei had to thank his colleague from another department, “Thank you, I’ll treat you to a meal later when I’m on duty.”
“It’s Doctor Wang on duty in your department, isn’t it? Forget it.” Doctor Jiang from the emergency surgery waved his hand dismissively.
It seemed Doctor Wang’s popularity wasn’t that great; even an offer of a meal was turned down.
Huang Zhilei took out the hospital’s overall registration form to record the situation.
“Who is she?” Doctor Jiang suddenly looked at Xie Wanying, standing behind Huang Zhilei.
“An intern observing in our department,” Huang Zhilei tried to address his junior sister in one sentence.
But the other doctor wasn’t fooled, asking directly, “The intern who shocked everyone last night?”