“换病房啦！”15日一早，护士告诉北京首例h7n9确诊患儿圆圆(化名)，她即将从重症监护病房转到普通病房。
仍处隔离状态不能探视
自从4月11日发病，圆圆的体温在5天中，已有3天保持正常。15日，她的体温处于35.7℃-36.9℃之间。
“非常好。”地坛医院感染病中心主任陈志海介绍，圆圆入院以后恢复得非常顺利，除体温恢复正常之外，病情也没有反复。现在，她已没有呼吸道、消化道症状，化验指标各方面都在改善。“入院后曾经出现过白细胞下降，13日开始白细胞明显恢复。”
15日中午12时，圆圆正式转到普通病房。不过，由于还在感染病病房，仍是隔离状态，不能够探视。
地坛医院为她准备了一间朝南的房间，上午阳光能照进屋子，室内也没有了各种监护设备。据了解，圆圆最高兴的是屋子里有电视，她说自己又能看动画片了。
从“病危”改为“病重”
地坛医院副院长成军表示，为圆圆转普通病房是考虑到病情不会再出现反复，下一步她将停用达菲治疗。此外，圆圆已不再吸氧，从“病危”改为“病重”，护理等级由原先不能自理的一级，转为二级护理。
记者了解到，按照国家卫计委的标准，两次核酸检测阴性则符合出院标准。目前，圆圆已经两次检测为阴性。院方表示，她不久将可出院。
beijing girl infected with h7n9 recovering
the first person infected with h7n9 flu in beijing is recovering and will be discharged from hospital soon, health authorities said on monday.
tests for the virus on saturday and sunday on the 7-year-old girl all proved negative, and she was transferred from intensive care to an ordinary ward, said zhong dongbo, deputy director of beijing health bureau。
fight against the h7n9 bird flu
"she hasn't suffered a relapse after her body temperature returned to the normal range three days ago," said chen zhihai, director of the infectious disease department of ditan hospital, where she is being treated。
"she is not showing respiratory or alimentary canal symptoms. the level of her white blood cells has been restored。
"we are planning to stop tamiflu treatment based on the expectation that she will not suffer a relapse." according to the standard of treatment of h7n9 infection issued by the national health and family planning commission, a patient with h7n9 can be discharged if they have a normal body temperature and no related symptoms, and have tested negative for the virus in two consecutive tests。
the girl's parents are also under observation at ditan hospital and are doing fine so far, zhong said。
her mother "hasn't shown any symptoms", he said. "the test can be too sensitive and unstable sometimes. we will inform the public when viable and confirmed results come out."
according to zhong, the city government now asks all people with flu-like cases to have pathogen tests, and it is monitoring people across he city who have more frequent contact with poultry。
"we now test the throat swabs of about 1,600 people a day," he said. "the city's finance bureau has given the health bureau another 30 million yuan ($4.85 million) for prevention and control of the disease."
flu-like cases monitored and reported by 421 local medical institutes this year show that the prevalence of such symptoms in beijing is slightly lower than last year, said zhong。
news of the girl's recovery came as anhui, zhejiang and jiangsu provinces each reported a new case, with the victims all in critical condition. a 77-year-old woman in jiangsu diagnosed with h7n9 died on sunday. she had undergone surgery for rectal cancer and had hypertension。
as of 8 pm monday, 63 cases of the h7n9 strain of bird flu have been reported across china. fourteen of the cases have resulted in death, according to local health authorities。
the national health and family planning commission said it is going to set up a team with the world health organization to conduct a week-long assessment of the prevalence of the virus in china, and the nation's work to prevent and control the disease。