The Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital ( zh, 武汉市金银潭医院) is a public hospital located on Jinyintan Avenue in the

Jiangjunlu Subdistrict Jiangjunlu Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Dongxihu District, Wuhan, Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province mea ...

, in the Dongxihu District of

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Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...

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, and a unit directly under the Wuhan Municipal Health and Health Committee. Jinyintan Hospital specialises in

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. Jinyintan Hospital is one of the designated hospitals for emergency medical treatment in Hubei, including Wuhan. The hospital's president is Dr. Zhang Dingyu, a respiratory specialist. Its vice-director is Dr. Huang Chaolin. At the start of the

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, many of those infected were treated here, including some of the first COVID-19 patients. The hospital saw 170 people with

pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity ...

symptoms by January 23, 2020, and nearly 500 COVID-19 patients at the peak of the pandemic in Wuhan. In January 2020, a group of researchers at the hospital published a paper in which they said they were concerned that the virus had "acquired the ability for efficient human transmission".

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