Chapter 29 28. Ye Xin—An angel in white who sacrificed her life to save the suffering

Ye Xin (1956-2003), female, Han nationality, from Xuwen County, Guangdong Province, member of the Communist Party of China. Started working in 1972, and was the head nurse of the Emergency Department of Ersha Branch of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine before his death. Ye Xin was born on July 9, 1956 in a medical family in Xuwen, Guangdong. In 1974, he was recruited into the health training team of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. When he graduated in 1976, he was admitted to work in the hospital because of his top scores in the nursing ability test. In 1983, he was promoted to be the head nurse of the Emergency Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the youngest among the head nurses of the hospital.

The emergency department is the largest nursing unit of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which consists of six departments: 120, rehydration room, blood drawing room, injection room, observation room, and treatment room. The "fast, timely, and effective" nature of the work, complex and changeable illnesses, and shocking situations require the head nurse not only to have super-class nursing expertise, but also to have the leadership ability to be fearless in times of crisis, and calm and quick thinking.At the moment of life and death, in a working environment with an atmosphere of pain, wailing, and helplessness, every medical staff must have a strong body and a good psychological quality.For women, this is a super physical and mental challenge.And Ye Xin has been working in the emergency department for decades.Whenever patients with infectious diseases in the emergency department come to the emergency department, Ye Xin always takes the lead and charges forward, trying not to let the young nurses get involved.Every time she always said: You are still young, this disease is dangerous!She treats this kind of patients with extra patience and meticulous care, without a trace of dislike.For patients from poor families, she even offered to buy things for the patients.She often said to the nurses: "It is unfortunate enough for patients to have infectious diseases, but the psychological damage caused by social discrimination may be more uncomfortable than the pain! As nurses, we must not only solve their physical pain, but also give them The power of love, the power of life.” Once, when a nurse who had just started working served a patient, Ye Xin aroused dissatisfaction with the patient, and Ye Xin took the initiative to visit the patient’s home to apologize and make self-criticism.When the Ersha Branch of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was first established, Ye Xin volunteered to serve as the head nurse in the emergency department of Ersha, responsible for the heavy nursing organization work.

In 2001, a critically ill patient from a mountainous area in Fujian went to the emergency department for treatment, and asked to go home as soon as his condition stabilized.Ye Xin tried hard to persuade, but the patient refused to listen, so the department decided to send the patient home by ambulance.Ye Xin took the initiative to apply for nursing care along the way. After 22 hours of bumps and nursing, the patient got home safely, but she was too tired to straighten up.In order to get back to work as soon as possible, Ye Xin paid for the flight back to Guangzhou the next morning. Around the Spring Festival of 2003, a type of atypical pneumonia of unknown etiology began to spread in some areas of Guangzhou. Just after the first ten days of February, the Ersha Emergency Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine began to treat patients diagnosed or suspected of SARS, with a maximum of 5 patients a day.Faced with a twice-increased workload, Ye Xin planned carefully and deployed calmly, and arranged intensive classes when the shift was reassigned.With the sharp increase of SARS patients, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine acted decisively and urgently dispatched some nurses from the emergency department of Ersha Branch Hospital to reinforce the hospital headquarters located in the city center.There is a clear shortage of nurses in the emergency department of Ersha.Ye Xin took the lead and started working overtime since February 8.Facing the highly contagious "SARS" patients and the challenge of death, as the head nurse of the emergency department, she planned carefully and deployed calmly.Whenever a suspected or confirmed patient arrives, Ye Xin always rushes to the front, competing to do the most difficult work and the most dangerous work.In order to reduce other people's chances of infection, she almost took care of inspection, rescue, treatment and nursing.She risked her life to rescue patients time and time again, and pulled critically ill patients back from the death line time and time again.

At noon on March 4, Ye Xin, who was extremely tired, began to have fever symptoms, and was later diagnosed with atypical pneumonia.In order to treat Ye Xin, the hospital set up a treatment team in the shortest possible time.Ye Xin's condition affected almost everyone's heart.Zhang Dejiang, secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, entrusted Secretary-General Cai Dongshi to condolences to her and her family; Vice Governor Lei Yulan, accompanied by Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government Huang Yebin and Director of the Provincial Department of Health Huang Qingdao, personally went to the hospital to learn about the treatment situation.Leaders from the Provincial Health Department, the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine also provided technical, material, and equipment support for Ye Xin's rescue.

At 1:30 am on March 25, 2003, less than a week after the last patient Ye Xin rescued who was also infected with SARS was discharged from the hospital, Ye Xin left the position she loved forever. Comrades and relatives, at the age of 47. Ye Xin is an outstanding representative of countless fighting heroes against SARS, and a banner that emerged on the medical and health front in my country's response to major emergencies.She was posthumously awarded as an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a revolutionary martyr, and won the Bethune Medal and the International Nightingale Medal.