Chapter 3265

In early March, the thing Su Xinghui had been worried about finally happened: the first imported case of SARS was discovered in Jingcheng. Subsequently, the SARS epidemic began to break out in Jingcheng, and it became the region with the highest number of reported cases in the country outside of Yuedong. The SARS epidemic broke out very densely in Jingcheng.

Su Xinghui called home. He told his family not to go out easily if there was nothing important, and not to have contact with people outside easily. By this time, the Su family already knew the horror of SARS. They all promised Su Xinghui they would not go out easily. Even Niu Niu was temporarily not allowed to go to kindergarten, but was kept at home instead.

Only Lu Xiaoya was the exception; she had to go to work. As a Party member and cadre, she could not hide at home at a time like this. She had to fulfill her duties. If every Party member and cadre refused to go to work because of fear, the whole country would be paralyzed. No one knew where this SARS epidemic would lead.

Su Xinghui certainly supported Lu Xiaoya's choice, because he himself was also fighting on the front line, struggling against the SARS epidemic.

In mid-March, Baozhou City also discovered its first SARS patient. He was a professor at Baozhou University. Last week, he had taken a trip to Jingcheng to attend an academic seminar. Less than three days after returning, he began to run a high fever and was sent to the hospital.

After entering the hospital, he was soon declared in critical condition because he developed breathing difficulties. During the rescue process, several medical staff members were also infected because they lacked experience and their protective measures were inadequate. Only then did the hospital realize that this was likely the SARS epidemic spreading here.

The Baozhou Municipal Government received the hospital's report. Vice Mayor in charge of culture, education, and health, Cheng Zhiguo, rushed to the hospital in person to direct the epidemic prevention work. At the last Standing Committee meeting, Su Xinghui had introduced some basic symptoms and prevention methods for SARS to the Standing Committee members, which had already been printed into booklets and distributed. Cheng Zhiguo, of course, had also focused on reading this booklet.

As soon as he arrived at the scene and heard the hospital dean report the patients' symptoms, he knew that this must be an outbreak of the SARS epidemic here. He immediately ordered the isolation of these patients and demanded thorough disinfection of the site.

In addition, the patients' families and those who had contact with the patients were also to be isolated, with their body temperatures strictly monitored every day. Once a fever phenomenon was discovered, they were also to be isolated until one week had passed without any fever, at which point the isolation measures could be lifted.

Although the SARS epidemic was also discovered in Baozhou City, due to the capability of the Baozhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government's measures and the effective publicity, large-scale rumors like those in other regions did not occur in Baozhou City. The common people did not have such great panic, and everyone was still carrying out normal work and study.

All hospitals in Baozhou City set up fever clinics, and the Green Oasis Charity Hospital, which had the best medical equipment conditions, took on the responsibility of being the SARS specialist hospital. They specifically designated a building for the treatment of SARS patients. Any SARS patient discovered in Baozhou City could be sent here for isolation and treatment.

And the medical staff in Baozhou City also gained experience in how to avoid contracting the SARS virus. The medical staff in the fever clinics were equipped with special protective clothing and had to undergo full-body disinfection when they got off work.

Due to the proper prevention and control measures in Baozhou City, the SARS epidemic in Baozhou City was not serious. In particular, apart from the first time when a few medical staff members were infected due to lack of experience, the number of infected people never increased again.

And at this time, the economic development of Baozhou City was not affected at all.

This day, Su Xinghui came to the Weiqi Electronic Information Industrial Park. He was here to inspect the construction situation. Liu Xin, the director of the Industrial Park Management Committee, accompanied him on the inspection of the industrial park.

The land for the industrial park had already been requisitioned last October. However, due to the snow period in the following months, the soil layer here was frozen, so it was impossible to carry out earthwork.

It was now spring. Although the soil layer was still relatively hard, with the help of construction machinery, earthwork could already begin.

When Su Xinghui arrived here, he saw a large number of construction machines starting to roar. Although Su Xinghui had seen this scene countless times, every time he saw it, he still felt shocked and refreshed.

This is the Baozhou Speed. The Baozhou Speed can now be mentioned in the same breath as the Pengcheng Speed.

Because Baozhou's winter is long, counting from the end of October to the beginning of November, the temperature is below or around 0 degrees for about four or five months every year. The time available for construction every year is not long, so carrying out earthwork here really requires racing against time. Being a little slow won't do, as it will delay the construction period significantly.