Liu Xiaoyuan, Mu Qingmeng and Cao Xin are three nurses of the post-90s generation from the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. They were also members of the third Sichuan medical team assisting Hubei Province. 

After Liu arrived in Wuhan and began to nurse the patients, she applied to join the Communist Party of China. "After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a number of Party members of the Department of Intensive Medicine of the hospital I work for headed to the front line. The reason why I apply to join the Party now is I admire them and want to learn from them, and make my own contribution," Liu said.  

Liu is clear that to relieve the mental pressure of critical patients is a tough and important job for medical staff. Every time the inpatient areas discharged patients from the hospital, she would tell the good news to other patients to encourage them to rebuild their confidence to defeat the virus.

Mu once spent four years at a university in Enshi City, Hubei Province, and she had special feelings about Hubei. 

Though there were many critical patients in her ward, Mu usually offered special nursing care to a 90-year-old grandmother who couldn't see or hear clearly. Mu fed her carefully, turned over her body every one or two hours and cleaned her body every day to keep her skin dry. 

Although Mu has met many difficulties in nursing work, they are not big challenges to her compared to saving people's lives.  

Cao is the youngest of the three. She and her colleagues have tried many ways to overcome the difficulties of wearing protective clothing.  

"No matter how thick the protective clothing is, we can hear every caring word from patients. Even when the goggles are foggy, we can see the firm eyes of patients, and no matter how many gloves we wear, we can feel their pulse," Cao said.

(Source: Health News/Translated by Women of China)