A special remote medical consultation for a patient in critical condition was conducted on Saturday between the Hunan medical team in Huanggang, Central China's Hubei province and experts in Hunan Provincial People's Hospital in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province.

On that day, an Intensive Care Department supported by the Hunan medical team opened in Huanggang's Dabieshan Regional Medical Center, an emergency field hospital for the treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia patients.

In the scenario of telemedicine consultation, doctors in Huanggang shared the patient's medical records and communicated diagnosis through video and voice with experts from the cardiology, emergency, respiratory, critical care and radiology departments in Changsha.

According to Gao Jiping, general director of the Hunan medical team in Huanggang, in addition to this hospital, this type of remote medical consultation is available 24 hours a day for hospitals that have medical workers from Hunan in Hong'an, Macheng, Luotian, and Yingshan.

"Through this platform, it will further improve the efficiency and effective treatment for critically ill patients and reduce the mortality rate," Gao said. "It can relieve the tension and overload of medical personnel in the frontline in Huanggang."

The Intensive Care Department supported by the Hunan medical team in Dabieshan has 36 beds especially for NCP patients in serious and critical condition.

At present, it has admitted 15 patients. Medical staff are on six 4-hour shifts a day, with three doctors and eight nurses on each shift.

Zhou Jinrong contributed to this story.