There were 56 new deaths in Wuhan on Feb. 24, down by half from the day before. Is this a fortuitous day, or an important shift? What progress has been made in the treatment of serious and critical illnesses?On the 24th edition of News 1+1, Bai Yansong talks to Qiu Haibo, a member of the National Health Commission’s expert group and an expert in critical care medicine.Q: What does it mean that Wuhan’s new deaths are the lowest in the last 10 days? Is it a turnaround? Qiu Haibo, member of the National Health Commission’s expert group and expert in critical care medicine: It’s prudent to think of it as a turnaround. In the beginning, the pressure was very high, and now the number of deaths and illnesses is declining, is a series of measures taken in the previous period of time to gradually play a role in the effect. First of all, focusing on the admission and treatment of seriously ill patients, local hospitals now have 10 hospitals designated for the admission and treatment of seriously ill patients nearly 8,000 beds, today (25) there are still nearly 1,000 empty beds, has reached the state of “beds waiting for people”. Secondly, a large number of national medical teams have arrived in Wuhan since the beginning of February, bringing Wuhan’s treatment level up to the national medical treatment level. At the same time, the treatment path is becoming clearer and the treatment standard is being implemented. Overall, it can be cautiously optimistic to say that the effect of the rescue treatment for the critically ill patients has been gradually realized through the efforts made in the previous period.Q: What are the reasons for the decline in the proportion of critical illnesses? Qiu Haibo, a member of the expert group of the National Health Commission and an expert in critical care medicine: Since the beginning of February, medical resources have gradually become adequate from being relatively tight, and patients are able to receive adequate and timely treatment from the community and family to the hospital. Because of the more timely treatment, the proportion of critically ill patients has decreased. Of course, it is also related to the other side, for infectious diseases, it itself has some characteristics of viral diseases, with the second, third and fourth generation of patients down, in fact, its virulence may be declining, which may also be a reason.Q: Is the rate of serious illness confident of a further decline? Qiu Haibo, a member of the National Health Commission’s expert group and an expert in critical care medicine: Now it seems that recently there is still more confidence. First of all, medical resources are becoming more and more adequate, and the medical power of the whole country is being gathered in Wuhan, for example, 10% of the medical staff of the critical illnesses are already in Hubei, and the whole treatment is becoming more and more standardized. The entire treatment gateway to move forward, ordinary patients to get more timely treatment, into the serious illness becomes less, serious patients respiratory treatment is more timely, into the critical illness is less. Treatment concept from single organ to multi-organ, so that the overall treatment concept has been updated and improved, a series of understanding of the progress of treatment, are likely to make the proportion of severe disease decreased, treatment success rate has been improved. Source: CCTV News