Hospital staff decipher heartfelt letter

A head nurse together with her colleagues recently cracked a letter of illegible writing at a hospital in Zhejiang. The thank you letter was written by a patient in his 90's.

"The elderly, surnamed Zhang, shakes his hand badly when he writes," said Liu Mingchen, the head nurse at the the infectious disease department at the Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital. "Fortunately, we often chatted with him and know him well. So we understood the full text and got what he tried to say."

"We all felt very touched," Liu said.

According to her, Zhang had a high fever with over 38 degrees, which had lasted a week before he was admitted here. This was not the first time he was a patient at the hospital.

"The hospital treated him when he had brain infarction, so in his heart this hospital was a blessed place as his life was once saved here," said Liu.

Liu and her colleagues view Zhang as an interesting and respectable person.

"Every day he would sit up and read the newspaper carefully with his glasses," said Liu. "He is very outgoing. Whenever he saw me coming to the ward, he would chat with me and tell me about some of his own experiences."

After a week of treatment, Zhang's condition greatly improved. Before he was discharged from the hospital, he went to Liu with the piece of paper.