Military medics sent to Wuhan to fight epidemic return home

Military medics sent to assist in Wuhan's fight against the novel coronavirus have fulfilled their missions and returned home, according to Xinhua News Agency.

Xinhua reported on Thursday afternoon that medics from the People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police Force left Wuhan, capital of China's Hubei province, which was hard hit by the contagion, in several groups by air and railway.

Following instructions from President Xi Jinping, who also is general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Chinese military deployed more than 4,000 medical personnel to join in epidemic control efforts in Wuhan since Jan 24.

Three medical facilities in the city were put under the military's management - Huoshenshan Hospital, Taikang Tongji Hospital, and the Guanggu branch of Hubei Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital. Medics treated a total of 7,198 patients and none of the doctors and nurses contracted the highly infectious disease, the report said.

Moreover, a total of 63 military hospitals across the country were tasked with receiving patients who contracted the coronavirus and provided nearly 3,000 beds, Major General Chen Jingyuan, the top health official at the Central Military Commission's Logistics Support Department, said last month. 

More than 10,000 medics at those hospitals were involved in the battle against the disease, he told a news conference in Beijing in early March.