Chen Weilin, a post-80s village doctor: seeking happiness for the health of villagers

Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, 19 Dec (reporters Yan Zhihong and Song Weiwei) "Xiao Chen! Hurry up! Look what happened to my son! " At about 7 p.m. on August 22 this year, Chen Longyun, a villager of Houxi Village in Zhangpu County, rushed into the village clinic with his 6-year-old son in his arms.

Fever, lethargy, frequent vomiting. A series of symptoms alerted Chen Weilin, a village doctor, "did you eat something?" Learning that the child ate several mushrooms in the afternoon, Chen Weilin contacted the hospital vehicle while giving emergency treatment to the child.

That night, a total of six children in the village were rushed to hospital for accidental ingestion of poisonous mushrooms. Fortunately, because they were sent to the hospital in time, the children all turned the corner.

The Houxi village served by Chen Weilin belongs to Huxi she Township, Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, with a population of more than 1/3 of the she nationality. Due to being located in the mountainous area and inconvenient transportation, more and more young people in the village choose to go out to work, leaving mostly empty nesters and left-behind children. Chen Weilin, a post-80s village doctor, has become the "family doctor" and their "relatives" of many left-behind villagers.

Chen Weilin's father, Chen Qihui, has been working as a barefoot doctor in Huxi she Township Health Center since he graduated from health school in 1968. From an early age, Chen Weilin liked to stay beside her father and watch him ask for medical advice. At the age of six, she was able to memorize the Tang Tou Song Formula, which contains more than 300 prescriptions commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. In 1998, Chen Weilin returned to Houxi Village after graduating from the health school and took over the baton of the village doctor from her father.

An elderly villager in Nanshan Natural Village suffered from diabetic foot. Chen Weilin went back and forth two or three times a day to clean her wound for seven years. In 2006, typhoon floods destroyed a bridge and Chen Weilin had to wade across the river every day. Sometimes the stream is so urgent that you have to make a detour of more than 7 kilometers of mountain road.

"it is the duty of a doctor not to give up on a patient." My father's words measured Chen Weilin's every house call like a yardstick. When all the young people in the village wanted to go out for development, Chen Qihui firmly left her son behind. "there is a shortage of medicine and medicine in the mountain areas, so someone has to come and see the villagers!"

After a few miles of mountain road, the reporter followed Chen Weilin to the home of the 86-year-old Lan Meiniang. By the dim light, I saw the old man lying in bed, wheezing heavily in the old dirt house. Chen Weilin cleaned up the house and began to listen carefully to the pulse.

"he is closer than his son." Lan Mei Niang forced herself up and told the reporter, "every time she comes here, she brings some nutrition and refuses to collect money."

There are more than 300 archival patients like Lan Meiniang in Houxi Village. "each person needs to go home for a medical examination three times a year, which is more than 1200 times a year. There is also an annual door-to-door physical examination for people over the age of 65, which needs to be done by Wei Lin alone. " Said Lan Wentai, head of Huxi Health Center.

Just this year, Chen Weilin gave up the recruitment examination for special positions in general medicine at township health centers. If you pass the exam, you will have the establishment, and there will be a government subsidy of 30,000 yuan a year. Chen Weilin said, "I also want to work in the countryside, but what if the village, young and old, has a headache?"

This blood donation certificate, with a total amount of 115200 ml of blood donation, can fill the bodies of 24 able-bodied adults. In Zhangzhou, Chen Weilin is also a well-known "warm-blooded hero". At the end of 2006, Chen Weilin became a volunteer for hematopoietic stem cell donation. In a short period of 10 years, Chen Weilin donated 80 platelets.

In Chen Weilin's eyes, more than 3,000 villagers are "family members." During the 18 years of practicing medicine, he made a total of 24820 visits, of which 612 were treated or referred to critical patients, 5100 for physical examination for the elderly and 340 for humanistic care for the dying.

"I have been communicating with patients all the year round and cherish my happiness as a healthy person more. Personal happiness is more meaningful to help the villagers relieve their illness. " Before she had finished, Chen Weilin received another call for help. With the medicine box on his back and his slightly dilapidated motorcycle, Chen Weilin, the "family doctor", set out again.