Yuezhong Hospital, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Time, 12 midnight.

The nurses on duty, Bao Jing and Yu Fangfang, were writing nursing records at the nurse's desk. While writing, they looked up from time to time at the row of incubators in front of them.

The neonatal intensive care unit is a ward that focuses on the treatment of critically ill newborns.

Like some newborns from mothers with diabetes, newborns from mothers with severe gestational hypertension, newborns from mothers with severe anemia, and newborns from mothers with heart disease,

As well as newborns with ischemic hypoxic encephalopathy, aspiration pneumonia, meconium aspiration syndrome, intracranial hemorrhage, heart, kidney, DIC and other multiple organ damage caused by hypoxia, etc.

Therefore, none of the babies who can enter this ward are normal, and all of them are in critical condition, but it can effectively reduce the infant mortality rate.

Thanks to Chen Qi's sponsorship, we were able to get 30 incubators in one go.

Then the neonatal mortality rate in central Vietnam suddenly dropped from 34.68‰ to 11.9‰.

Although there is still a certain gap with the later data of 4.9‰, it was enough in 1990.

You must know that in 1990, there were very few hospitals in the country that could be equipped with neonatal intensive care units, and none at the municipal level. The Vietnam-China Hospital was once again in a leading position in the country.

Chen Qi's merits alone are immeasurable and he has saved the lives of many babies.

In order to relieve jet lag for the little baby who has just come into this world, all the lights in the NICU will be turned off in the middle of the night, leaving only some night lights.

And due to the effect of the medicine, these babies often do not have the usual day and night confusion, crying and fussing, and there is no need for medical care in the middle of the night.

Therefore, the nurses on the night shift were relatively relaxed. Bao Jing and Yu Fangfang were still chatting quietly about the gossip news, including the divorce of the "hospital beauty" He Jia.

"I heard that Dean Chen was opposed to it at the beginning. It was He Jia who refused to listen and insisted on getting married."

"I saw it during the wedding banquet. The groom is indeed handsome, but it's a pity that he has a silver-like wax gun head, which is not useful. Hehe."

"But the Ping family is nothing. It's no different than cheating for marriage."

Just when the two little girls were chatting happily, they suddenly heard a slight cat meowing. "Meow~~meow~~~"

The two nurses were immediately alert.

"Hey, Fangfang, listen, why is there the sound of a cat meowing?"

"Yes, it seems there is a cat. Oh, I'm in trouble."

There are 30 newborns living in this ward. If a wild cat runs in and bites the baby, they will be left without food, and the nursing department will have to tear them alive.

"Meow~~meow~~~"

"Quick, go find the wild cat."

"Strange, how did this wild cat get in?"

The neonatal intensive care unit is closed, and the doors and windows are almost never opened, just to prevent the baby in the incubator from catching cold.

So two young nurses took flashlights, stooped and walked into the ward, and then followed the light everywhere to look for wild cats, but after searching for a long time, there was no sign.

"Bao Jing, have you found it?"

"No, where did the kitten go?"

Just as the two were searching, the meowing stopped. As soon as the two frustrated nurses sat down, another meowing sound came from the ward:

"Meow~~meow~~~"

Bao Jing and Yu Fangfang looked at each other, picked up the flashlight and rushed into the ward quickly, trying to find the damn wild cat as soon as possible. However, after searching for half an hour, except for the occasional cry of a baby, there was nothing else.

Silhouette of wild cat.

When the two young nurses sat back at the nursing station again, they were already cursing.

"Damn wild cat, if I catch it, I have to beat it."

"That's right, I'll report to Director Liu tomorrow."

"OK."

The two were talking when suddenly the cat meowed again: "Meow~~Meow~~~"

Bao Jing and Yu Fangfang looked at each other, and their skin instantly became tense. The two little girls were so frightened that they quickly hugged each other.

"What should I do? It's not haunted, right?"

"The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, save us. Comrade Ghost, if you have any grudges, go to our Director Chen. Don't scare us little workers."

From a superstitious point of view, hospitals are the place where the most people die and the most yin energy. Almost every hospital has supernatural stories and legends.

For example, in an empty outpatient building in the middle of the night, some doors open automatically when there is no wind...

Another example is that the corridors in the inpatient department are very long, and the darkness is particularly scary. In the middle of the night, coupled with the sound of high-heeled shoes clicking...

There are also the emergency rooms where most accidental deaths occur, or the morgue where hospital patients go after they die...

Therefore, there is basically no need to install central air-conditioning in hospitals. In summer, it is freezing everywhere, and from time to time a gust of evil wind blows, chilling people to the core.

Moreover, medical staff are also human beings, and atheists are a minority after all.

In addition, a small number of medical staff have personally experienced supernatural events, and most people are still afraid of ghosts.

Not everyone is as brave as Chen Qi, who dared to make money by dissecting corpses and making specimens alone in the middle of the night when he was a student.

That night, the neonatal intensive care unit would hear meows from time to time. When I approached the ward, I could no longer hear them. The legs of the two nurses were shaking when they were feeding the babies.

At dawn, when all their colleagues rushed to work, Bao Jing and Yu Fangfang couldn't bear it anymore. They hugged the head nurse and cried loudly.

Are there feral cats in the neonatal intensive care unit? Is this okay?

When the head nurse Ren Juan and the director of pediatrics Liu Shumin heard about it, they immediately paid attention to it. They didn't even do rounds on the ward, and they all went out to find the stray cats.

What doctors are most afraid of are these wild animals. Not only can they cause bites and scratches, wild cats may also carry unknown viruses and bacteria, which can then cause nosocomial infections.

The babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are already children with poor health and low immunity. If a few of them die by then, the doctors will have to take off their white coats.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But when everyone turned the intensive care unit upside down, they could not see the wild cat, not even a single piece of cat poop.

Head nurse Ren was unhappy:

"Yu Fangfang, Bao Jing, are you two dizzy from working the night shift? Where are the wild cats?"

The two young nurses were very aggrieved. If one person heard it wrong, it was possible, but the possibility of two people hearing it at the same time was very small, not to mention that they had worked hard all night to look for wild cats with flashlights.

But facts speak louder than words. Although Liu Shumin is an easy-to-talk department director, she is not someone to be trifled with when she really gets angry.

"Okay, okay, Xiao Bao is smaller than them and maybe too tired, so everyone has dispersed."

Head nurse Ren pointed at her two subordinates and then started her busy day.

Just when everyone thought the matter was over, they didn't expect that at midnight the next day, two young nurses on duty, Zheng Furong and Zhang Yinshuang, also heard the cat meowing.

It's just that the cat's meow is very soft, intermittent and very vague. You really can't hear it unless you listen carefully.

Now the two nurses were no longer calm. Just like Bao Jing and Yu Fangfang who were on duty last night, they could only hug each other and tremble all night.

The next day, the news that the pediatric ward was haunted spread throughout the hospital, and the whole hospital was in an uproar.

Supernatural incidents were reported layer by layer, and Chen Qi soon learned about them.

Don't underestimate the rumors of hauntings. There are a lot of superstitious people in 2023, not to mention this is still 1990.

If this matter is not handled properly, the reputation and interests of the People's Hospital will suffer a major blow. I have not seen many pregnant women and parents of newborns clamoring to be discharged.

No one wants to be haunted by ghosts, right?

Chen Qi personally took Zuo Liwei, the chief of the medical department, and Huang Qiming, the chief of the security department, to the neonatal intensive care unit. A large group of doctors from the pediatric department also followed behind.

Many medical staff were whispering behind them:

"Why are our pediatricians so unlucky? What will we do if we work night shifts in the future?"

"Who said we in the Department of Pediatrics are all female doctors and nurses? The yin energy is too strong, and ghosts like to absorb yin energy. Who would they look for if they don't look for us?"

"Fortunately, we have to move to a new inpatient unit, otherwise we would not be able to survive this life."

Chen Qi was also complaining to Section Chief Zuo next to him:

"You said that the new building of the hospital is about to be put into use. I have a lot of things to do. One moment I am a women's director mediating family conflicts among employees. Another moment I have to help my subordinates get divorced. Now I even have to do ghost hunting.

Already."

Section Chief Zuo opened his briefcase mysteriously:

"Dean, don't worry. I have prepared the talisman from Longhua Temple, the peach wood sword from Wang Xingji, the incense ashes from Lufeng Temple, and this. This is copper coins, and this is glutinous rice. When I encounter dirty things, I will give them a handful

Sprinkle a handful over."

Chen Qi thought to himself that Zuo Liwei was really a considerate person of the dean. He was so well prepared, except for the golden charm and the black donkey's hoof.

"Okay, okay, where are the ghosts in this world? Even if they exist, they are cowards like you. We can sit upright and we are still afraid of wild ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night?"

Chen Qi said loudly, wanting to encourage everyone, but when he turned around, he saw Dr. Qian Yuqian holding a jade Buddha and mumbling something.

Seeing this scene, Chen Qi felt that it was necessary for him to give several Marxist-Leninist classes to all the staff in the hospital.

The neonatal intensive care unit is located in a small bungalow between the pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology departments. The environment is relatively closed. The nurse stands at the door, but there is a large glass partition in the middle.

Chen Qi, Huang Qiming, chief of the security department, and Liu Shumin, director of pediatrics, entered the neonatal intensive care unit together.

The ward is about 100 square meters, with three rows of incubators placed in it, 10 in each row neatly arranged.

In addition, there are some life maintenance systems, rescue systems and other medical equipment, which seem to be full of equipment.

Chen Qi looked around a little strangely: "No, this window is completely closed, and the roof and walls are not damaged. So where did this wild cat sneak in?"

Chen Qi, Liu Shumin, and Huang Qiming entered the neonatal intensive care unit and took action separately.

As the chief of the security department, Huang Qiming carefully checked whether any doors and windows had been damaged. Could it be that enemy agents came to cause damage or wanted to steal children?

The security department of the unit these days is incredible, completely different from the security guards of later generations who had few teeth.

The staff of the security department of the Vietnam-China Hospital are almost all veterans, which can be regarded as half a police station. They even have guns. Not only do they have to be pulled out to catch bad guys at a critical moment, they are even the kind that can go to the battlefield.

Therefore, Huang Qiming's alertness and professionalism are quite strong, and he keeps his eyes wide open to not let go of any clues.
To be continued...