SHENZEN, China — As worldwide concerns grow about the spread of the new coronavirus, telecom equipment manufacturer ZTE Corp. says it has helped China Telecom achieve the first 5G remote diagnosis of new coronavirus pneumonia.
According to the news release, the 5G remote diagnosis involved West China Hospital and the Chengdu Public Health Clinic Center, both located at Sichuan University. The news release claims ZTE employed its customer premise equipment “to commission 5G services by means of outdoor 5G signals while constructing indoor coverage points.”
ZTE says, on January 25, 5G indoor base stations were built and interconnected, and the conference room for remote diagnosis and treatment in West China Hospital was first connected to the remote diagnosis and treatment system.
Then on January 26, ZTE completed the construction, optimization, speed test and commissioning of the 5G indoor distribution system at another core point of the remote diagnosis and treatment system, the release says. After the 5G network was commissioned, Sichuan Health Commission, West China Hospital and Chengdu Public Health Clinic Center conducted remote video consultation.
According to ZTE, West China Hospital will be the central node for the 5G remote consultation system and will access 27 hospitals that have accepted and treated patients. In the next step, the company says it will build China’s first new 5G remote diagnosis coronavirus infection system covering three levels: Sichuan province, city and county — thus providing “one network” for remote diagnosis in front-line hospitals that help Wuhan, where the new coronavirus outbreak was first reported. Wuhan is the capital city of Hubei province and is located approximately 1,100 kilometres east of Sichuan University.
In the future, ZTE says it will carry out video consultation with the Wuhan front-line medical rescue team through the 5G network, so that critical patients in Wuhan can receive expert diagnosis and treatment services in the West China Hospital.
