Emergency medical teams heading to Wuhan

Two national medical emergency teams left Shanghai for Wuhan, heart of the coronoavirus epidemic, on Tuesday.

One team with 55 members from Shanghai East Hospital and the other with 46 members from Huashan Hospital assembled within 24 hours after receiving orders from the national government on Monday.

Both teams have experience in emergency rescue and public health events and have participated in national and international rescue missions, Shanghai Health Commission said.

On January 24, a 136-member team of doctors and nurses left Shanghai to help out at Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital, a designated hospital for treating coronavirus patients.

A team of 50 nurses from 40 local hospitals took a train to Wuhan on January 27.

Another team of 148 doctors and nurses was dispatched from Shanghai for Wuhan on January 28.