中国校友带头为纽约的医务人员采购个人防护用品

中国校友带头为纽约的医务人员采购个人防护用品

Thomas E. Lo is an anesthesiologist who works at Montefiore Nyack Hospital in New York. Since the coronavirus outbreak, his job has gotten dangerous.

托马斯·E·罗是纽约蒙特菲奥雷·尼亚克医院的麻醉师。自从冠状病毒爆发后，他的工作变得危险起来。

"The exposure risk as an anesthesiologist is extremely high because when we intubate a patient, we are literally less than a foot away from the patient, who is in distress, and we're right by their airway, which is where the virus is," Lo tells All Things Considered.

“作为一名麻醉师，暴露(在病毒中的)风险是非常高的，因为当我们给病人插管时，我们实际上离病人不到一英尺远，而病人正处于痛苦之中，而我们就在他们的呼吸道旁边，而这正是病毒所在的地方，”罗告诉我们所有考虑到的事情。

And that exposure risk is made worse by widespread shortages of crucial personal protective equipment, or PPE, like masks, gowns and gloves.

由于关键的个人防护装备(如面罩、防护服和手套)普遍短缺，这种暴露风险进一步加剧。

Lo is trying to help fix that. He is also president of Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni Association. It has chapters in many places, including China.

罗正试图帮助解决这个问题。他还是哥伦比亚大学瓦格洛斯学院医师和外科医师同学会会长。它在许多地方都有分会，包括中国。

Alumni there saw what was happening in New York and wanted to do something to help.

那里的校友看到了纽约发生的事情，想做点什么来帮助他们。

So, several weeks ago, Lo reached out to medical providers in New York City and asked what they needed.

所以，几周前，罗联系了纽约市的医疗服务提供者，询问他们需要什么。

"Within 24 hours, I had dozens of emails," he says. They were in desperate need of PPE like N95 masks, gowns and face shields.

“不到24小时，我就收到了几十封电子邮件，”他说。他们急需N95面罩、防护服和面罩等个人防护装备。

He conveyed these needs to members of the alumni association. Since then, more than $1 million in cash and equipment has poured in from more than 200 donors.

他把这些需要传达给校友会成员。从那以后，200多名捐赠者捐赠了100多万美元的现金和设备。

At least 11.000 N95 masks have already been purchased. And supplies are already showing up at some of New York's hardest hit hospitals, such as Elmhurst in Queens.

购买了至少11000个N95口罩。一些纽约受灾最严重的医院，如皇后区的埃尔姆赫斯特，已经收到了救援物资。

To Lo, the most inspiring thing about the effort is seeing the outpouring of support from Columbia's and other alumni associations in China.

对于罗，最鼓舞人心的事情是看到来自哥伦比亚大学和中国其他校友会的支持。