Saving lives with love: A look at front line medical couples
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Huang Hanping, right, 54, and Zhang Li, 51, doctors at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, pose for a photo. (Photos: China Daily)
Huang Hanping talks with his patient.
Zhang Li inspects her patient in a ward.
Yang Zhifeng and Zhou Xia.
Yang Zhifeng reviews a patient’s pathography in his office. [Photo by Chen Zhuo/for chinadaily.com.cn]
Zhou Xia, right, inspects her patient.
Deng Xiongbo, left, and his wife Xie Jiaqiang.
Deng Xiongbo on duty in the computerized tomography room, sorting out diagnosis results of patients.
Xie Jiaqiang communicates with her colleague about work.
Li Yi, right, and his wife Ding Han.
Ding Han calls her colleague in a ward.
Li Yi writes a prescription.
Li Donghua and Wu Shuang.
Li Donghua looks at a patient's CT scan.
Wu Shuang learns how to use an oxygen cylinder.
42-year-old Liu Wei and 44-year-old Fang Guoyan met and fell in love with each other at Jinyintan Hospital. They got married in 2002 and have a daughter who is going to take the college entrance exam this year. The couple sent their daughter to her aunt after the coronavirus outbreak.
Liu Wei takes off his protective gear after leaving an isolation ward.
Fang Guoyan in tears when learning her daughter, who suffers from severe anemia, has still not recovered.
Wu Zhiqiang, left, 56, is a doctor who works at the hospital’s clinical laboratory, and his wife, Xiong Yan, 57, is a medic in charge of nucleic acid tests at the laboratory. They met each other in school and got married in 1987.
Wu disinfects public areas near the laboratory.
Xiong prepares for nucleic acid tests.
Zhang Shaobin, left, 51, is head of the isolation wards on the fourth floor of the hospital's North Building, and his wife, Wang Fang, 47, is a nurse working on the second floor. The two have been married for 24 years, and their son is a university student.
Zhang prepares to check the isolation wards.
Wang picks up protective clothing for her colleagues.
Kang Boyin and his wife Wu Yuanjun pose for a photo at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 13, 2020. This Friday marks their sixth wedding anniversary.
Kang Boyin picks up lunches for patients delivered by a fellow worker at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 13, 2020.
Wu Yuanjun works at an isolation ward at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 13, 2020. [Photo by Chen Zhuo/for chinadaily/com.cn]
Tu Chao and his wife Cheng Fang pose for a photo at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 13, 2020. Tu is in charge of an ICU and Cheng Fang is a head nurse at the hospital, and they have been married for nearly 20 years.
Tu Chao checks the condition of a patient at an ICU at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 13, 2020.
Cheng Fang sorts through patients’ medical records while answering work calls at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province on Feb 13, 2020.
Yu Ting, 42, a deputy director at the fourth floor of the South Building of Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, and his wife Ding Na, 37, a nurse at the sixth floor of the building. They got married in 2008 and have an 11-year-old daughter.
Yu Ting, right, talks with nurses on the conditions of patients. Since Dec 30, Yu has joined in the fight against the novel coronavirus. He returns home rarely, and only to change clothes.
Ding Na watches the monitoring devices of patients. Though her husband works one floor above her, they meet few times. She returns home more often than her husband and always brings back some essentials for him.
Hu Huoping, 50, a technician in charge of the Radiology Department, and his wife Dong Jing, 50, a nurse in charge of the hospital's supply room. They got married in 1994 and their son is 25 years old.
Hu Huoping instructs patients to prepare for a CT scan. One day, he helped 17 patients who could not move themselves for CT scanning, and his facial mask slipped off.
Dong Jing disinfects medical tools. Since the outbreak began, Dong Jing took charge of the collection, watching, disinfection and distribution of medical tools. She usually arrives at the hospital at 7 am and leaves for home at 6 pm.
Mi Hefeng, an ambulance driver at the hospital, and Chen Li, a canteen employee.
Mi Hefeng disinfects her ambulance.
Chen Li serves dinner for medical workers at the canteen.