Hospitals should not fight flu alone

THE PHOTO OF A NOTICE posted by a pediatric department of a hospital in Tianjin has been widely spread online, as it said that its services had been suspended because all its pediatricians had fallen ill due to their extremely heavy workload. Beijing News comments:

The incident has much to do with the outbreak of influenza sweeping across the nation. According to official data, the number of flu patients in Beijing in the last week of 2017 was up by 48.75 percent compared with the week before, with the majority of them children.

That has in turn brought a heavy workload to pediatric doctors. In the above-mentioned hospital, there are only three pediatricians, and they have fallen ill because of the number of children they were treating.