I was in July 1998 to July 2000 with 16 people of several medical aid to Africa in Guinea. Our medical team is divided into two parts: one is the Corps, located in the capital Conakry, the other is composed of three individuals to 480 km from the capital's high altitude Rabe hospital. Rabe is not equipped with the medical point of translation and cook, no satellite TV, no pork, fish will be bought from the capital, but due to frequent power outages, refrigerators, freezers difficult to preservation, More ominously, a spiritual loneliness. Rabe will withdraw the place except for a group outside of the capital's Chinese radio station, no other Chinese people, that the future would like to find objects in Chinese conversation difficult, so hard .
we are July 27, 1998 arrived the evening of the capital of Guinea, the next morning, we will not distinguish the Old and in the case of rain, marching to the Rabe. In the evening, we went to Da Labei resident, the group met old players like the once a month to fight malaria; a doctor surnamed Liu, said: She is here often ill and had to have amoebic dysentery; our head of Xingtai Fu was the second to Rabe, the old players who admired him , because two years ago when they Rabe shift relief, the doctor suffering from falciparum malaria punishment, weight dropped 20 kilograms, thin is not adult-like. heard these, I'm rather tight, but also realized that death in the face immediately think of his thin body is very difficult to withstand serious illness frustrating, so be sure to prevent malaria and other disease. So the three of us Rabe reached a consensus that at all costs, eliminate indoor mosquitoes, cockroaches. as a party , in this far away from home, away from the three small groups of their loved ones, I should play an exemplary role, caring people, that is, care for themselves. We bought on the market screens, pesticides, sticky mouse glue, and through to impact drill, I climbed up and down, all the doors and windows are installed and repaired screens. Our house fell into disrepair, is full of loopholes, we used wood, paper, tape blocked, and then a large number of spray insecticide agent, the result is dead cockroaches everywhere, and mosquitoes are indoor disappeared, health situation has changed significantly. Since two years I have been leading anti-mosquito pest control, where the medical point of Rabe's play put three little children, but in the Corps 11 out of 10 people have fought malaria.
dormitory environment, can be our own hands to improve, but the hospital's environmental conditions, can only take the initiative to adapt. Rabe Hospital, acupuncture is only one doctor Two of the black nurse, you're definitely not possibly imagine: acupuncture clinic as a stable, Yan Zhaoqiang table is a circle of cement, which is treatment bed, then one way or another around the curtain for isolation sheets, mattress is dilapidated, two sheets washed only once. Connaught large consulting room, only a wooden windows, the light is very dim, and frequent power outages during the day. black underarm odor is very powerful, there is a special kind of body odor, coupled with hot weather, indoor ventilation, at the beginning, I was smoked Touyunnaozhang, could not eat. Even more frightening is mixed among patients with HIV infection, once the needle do not pay attention, it could tie into their own hands, can cause fear of consequences. At first, because the conditions suited the dark, their hands are really tied several times, my heart felt extremely nervous. I remember Pro abroad, we see the film in the TV special: a non-medical assistance members infected with the HIV virus, he said he could only die in Africa because he can not tell how the suffering of AIDS. think of the spread of AIDS in Africa, see the Guineans no awareness of prevention of AIDS, I really shudder! However, in this moment of personal safety concerns, I also play to perfection. Therefore, to acupuncture more and more people seeking treatment, including all sectors of society, from government officials, paraneoplastic patients from other provinces, even in Western countries working Rabe experts also do acupuncture. When Governor of low back pain patients Rabe was cured of my spare time, he drove to personally thank the resident medical team. He thanked me in addition to medicine, but also thanked China for its long-standing assistance to Guinea. I said : In retrospect, that was in 1968, by the time Li Xiannian, Vice Premier Chen Yi approval, Beijing dispatched by the Ministry of Health commissioned the first medical, blink of an eye the past 33 years, Beijing's reputation spread throughout the medical team Africa, to achieve the purpose for the diplomatic service. As the year Mao Zedong said, work with political significance, I have the opportunity to make a contribution can be said that the essence of life is a fragment.
Guinea, the average life expectancy is only 43 years old, not because of hot, fast metabolism, but because of lack of health and medicine, by a variety of diseases, took his life. a number of diseases in the country is nothing, as long as early treatment, it is easy to cure, but in Africa, some minor illness, you may want to endanger life. For example, we see a young man suffering from enlarged tonsils, because of coverage, the Health and bulging, and finally developed into shock and death. Rabe hospital laboratories can not do electrolytes, CO2 and other conventional binding project, not to do blood gas analysis, patients once the shock, coma The doctor can only blind treatment, patients with Nine Lives. I remember once, a 5-year-old child swallowed a coin, stuck in the esophagus, and the time, we have not transported to the medical device, and not even the hospital dental mirror are not, let alone a foreign body forceps. no way, saving deal, the three of us cooperate together, painstakingly recruited an old biopsy forceps, Ding Dafu cleverly removed the coins, this shocked the whole hospital and local residents crowd. encountered this situation because of the past, when hospitals do nothing, the children generally go home and die, our life-saving humanitarian spirit by the local government and people highly appreciated.
past medical drugs are is free of charge to patients, but due to non-drug aid funds are fixed, while drug prices have continued to rise, leading to a serious shortage of medical drugs. like our medical point of the year just over thirty thousand yuan of medicines, open supply only with more than 2 months. Therefore, the state decided to implement pay reform foreign aid drugs, drug charges at cost, recovery of funds where part of the medical team left the hospital, the majority return home and then buy drugs, so drugs rolling capital increase to meet the medical needs of the African people. A team from the latter half of the introduction of tariff reforms, but on a team to recover only a fraction of funds, most drugs used for other purposes shall be the hospital. shift changes, a team on the left We are a not a small amount of the arrears of the hospital section. leadership instructed us, we should insist on drugs charges system for hospital compliance, will close up the drug money to the teams as required; second, and all sectors of the black a good relationship, to play the role of foreign aid teams. This is a difficult problem best of both worlds. In this very sensitive problem, the captain of the trust by the medical team, from my point of care to monitor the drug, a human stem different job, This is a test for me. First, I carefully arranged, leaving a portion to the top officials and the month, weekly drug use program, so that low level, wide coverage. After a patient and meticulous work, two years down the cost of medicines most of our revenue back, so that the majority of patients endorsed the gradual reform of the fee for The next team has laid a good foundation.
medical acupuncture points in the next to pharmacy, because I control drugs, relatively better learn French, the French name for a variety of drugs, the price is so familiar with patients and other subjects I am accustomed to the medical staff at a prescription. As black people earn less, prescription bottles as we open boxes of the domestic, they are only 10-30 pills each patient, so we need to be unpacked, the number of pills, and then designated price, etc. . had acupuncture for patients, combined with prescription, so busy I did not even drink the effort, the Corps only needle acupuncture doctor per day less than 10 patients, and I pin more than 30, sometimes more than 40 , Corps while a full-time pharmacists. we recognized, Yang Taifu the largest amount of work the whole medical team, I am very proud to hear.
order to improve efficiency, besides learning French, but also to study the local dialect to the poor and most blacks do not understand French, direct communication. Meanwhile, the health of local people to In the medical team every minute, every second. see so many patients need me to get rid of their pain with acupuncture, I also gave up their own small problems, I was the team's most thin people, but in two years, I did not break the team only had one day of sick leave.
our achievements, the embassy reported to the Ministry of Health, which the Ministry of Health granted a lot of money, large-scale transformation of medical quarters and living conditions. City Health Department inspection team to Rabe, was moved by the spirit of our hard work, determination to raise funds to help us replace the furniture, the installation of satellite television, enabling us to tune in to the central station 3,4 channel programs, despite the time away from us only a few months back, but still feel very excited that we finally have the color of life.
our team unity, hard work, and finally successfully completed the task of foreign aid, a farewell meeting in the home, the capital of Asia Augustine praised deep feeling Sangaré Hospital, said: specifically to several embassies and the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, Ministry of Health sent a fax, praised Beijing assistance to medical teams from the sixteenth of Guinea in July 1998 to July 2000 work, give full play to their initiative and creativity to overcome difficulties , with superb skills and excellent service, the successful completion of the medical work, and praised the work of our health care in Guinea made an outstanding contribution. (excerpt)
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