Physician Duan Jun (center) from Beijing, checks a patient in a ward in Wuhan. [Photo/China Daily]

As of Feb 17, over 2,000 medical workers in 17 medical teams have been fighting hard for a week since they took over 17 intensive care units at the Optics Valley Campus of Tongji Hospital in Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.

According to local media reports, the first critical patient in the hospital was cured and discharged on Feb 16.

At present, 13 critical patients have gradually recovered and been transferred to mild disease cabin hospitals designated by Wuhan for further treatment.

The medical teams -- from Shanghai, East China's Shandong province, Zhejiang province, Jiangsu province and Fujian province and South China's Guangdong province -- completed the transformation of 830 beds in 17 wards in three days, once they landed in Wuhan.

The leaders of the 17 medical teams formed a special group to develop a temporary medical manual to discuss, summarize their experiences and form a consensus on the critical cases and clinical problems on that day -- and spare no effort to saving the lives of critical patients.