OLYMPICS/ flash
Guests in for a treat
By Cui Xiaohuo (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-08-17 11:20
The same problem also occurs at medical facilities. At the World Rowing Junior Championships, one of this month's Olympics pre-events held at the Shunyi Rowing and Canoeing Park in northeast Beijing, team medics have said the ice supply is insufficient given the hot August weather.
Rowers there said that ice baths are crucial to help them recover their normal body temperature after racing, but the medical team only has a single freezer.
A.K.Saha, a patient from India, talks to two Chinese cardiologists at China-Japan Friendship Hospital. [Guo Yingguang]
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"There's always something to improve here," the International Olympic Committee's medical director, Dr Patrick Schamasch, told China Daily while observing the rowing venue, where 38 doctors and nurses from five Beijing hospitals with four ambulances were on standby.
"We still have one year to go, so everything has to change a little bit," he said. "Probably at Games time, you will have more people, more equipment, more ambulances. But at Games time, everything will be on time, the right person at the right place with the right equipment.
"For the moment, everything is being done very well. The medical services I have seen are going well," he added.
The International Medical Department of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, will be renovated before the Games, adding a new third floor with more rooms, large beds for tall athletes, and international phone lines with Internet access.
"We are trying hard to fix these small issues that are not yet satisfactory," said Wang.
"But more often than not, there is still a disparity between the ideal situation and the reality."
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