Chapter 46 45. Wu Dengyun - Doctor in white sage on horseback

Wu Dengyun, male, Han nationality, a native of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, a member of the Communist Party of China. Born in 1940, former president of Wuqia County People's Hospital in Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. After graduating from University, Wu Dengyun responded to the party's call and volunteered to work in Wuqia County, the westernmost part of the motherland's territory.He loves the frontier, takes root in the frontier, and builds the frontier. He has repeatedly given up the opportunity to return to his hometown or work in places with better conditions. With noble medical ethics and superb medical skills, he works selflessly and makes selfless dedication.In order to save the ethnic brothers, he donated blood more than 30 times, totaling more than 7,000 milliliters; in order to save the burned baby, he cut 13 pieces of skin from his own leg and transplanted them to the patient.He is full of benevolence, as long as there are patients seeking medical treatment, no matter how far away, he will be there on call, and he will help advance medical expenses for patients who are financially poor.Wuqia County is vast and sparsely populated, and the herdsmen lack medical care. From the early 1960s to the end of the 1980s, he spent three to four months every year trekking over mountains and ridges, eating and sleeping in the open, and going deep into pastoral areas for inspections and epidemic prevention. He has traveled to more than 30 natural villages in 9 townships in the county, bringing sunshine of life to the grassland people, and is heartfeltly loved by local cadres and masses of all ethnic groups. He is known as the "sage in white" and "doctor on horseback".In order to better treat diseases for the people of all ethnic groups and improve the local medical and health conditions, he studied medical knowledge assiduously, worked hard to learn the languages ​​of ethnic minorities, and carefully trained the backbone of medical services of ethnic minorities. A large number of Kirgiz doctors quickly grew up.He is a representative of the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and won the National May 1st Labor Medal and the Bethune Medal.

In the summer more than 40 years ago, a young man graduated from Yangzhou Medical College and came to the Pamir Plateau, the "ancestor of thousands of mountains".This is the westernmost county on my country's territory - Wuqia County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. There are 43,000 people of various ethnic groups living here, of which the Kirgiz ethnic group accounts for 70% of the total population.This Yangzhou guy is named Wu Dengyun. For more than 40 years, Wu Dengyun has taken root in the Gobi Desert like a tough Populus euphratica, dedicating all his hard work and love to the people here.

Mai Mai Timing, a herdsman in Postantelek Township, will never forget the scene of Wu Dengyun's skin grafting for his son. It was December 1, 1971. Maimaitiming's two-year-old son accidentally threw himself into the fire while playing, and more than 50% of his body's skin was scorched.Facing the appalling little life, Wu Dengyun felt anxious.For more than ten days in a row, he devoted himself to the rescue. The child finally passed the stage of shock and infection, and the next step is the difficulty of wound healing.However, there are very few intact skins left for young children, so how can they bear to take too much of those delicate skins?

Wu Dengyun set his sights on the father of the child.When Mai Mai Timing heard that he was going to take the skin from his body, he was terrified and kept saying no.Wu Dengyun decided to take the skin from himself. "What? How can a doctor take his own skin, no way!" The nurse in the operating room refused to cooperate with Wu Dengyun.Wu Dengyun had no choice but to inject himself with anesthesia.He first took the skin from the two thighs, and then injected anesthesia into the calf, and cut it decisively. After 10 minutes, he had removed a total of 13 pieces of skin the size of postage stamps from his legs.Then he dragged his anesthetized legs onto the operating table, where he grafted his own skin onto the toddler.The toddler was saved and is now a father of two.

In the golden autumn of 1984, Wu Dengyun took up the post of director of Wuqia County Hospital.The biggest problem at that time was the shortage of medical personnel. "We must train a group of native Kirgiz doctors!" Wu Dengyun formulated a "Ten-Year People-Cultivating Plan". He went to township health centers to find medical staff of the Ke nationality, went to work during the day, and helped the comrades of the Ke nationality learn Chinese at night.Then he sent them to the hospital of the autonomous region to study for a year. After returning from the study, he taught and guided a large number of Kirgiz doctors. Now more than 70% of the hospital's business backbones are Kirgiz.In the past, this hospital could not even perform appendicitis surgery well, but now it can perform almost all routine operations, and its medical level is leading among county-level hospitals in the frontier.

Entering Wuqia Hospital, more than 60 flower beds decorate the hospital like a garden. It is a miracle in the Pamirs where "it is easy to give birth to a baby but difficult to grow a tree". After the 1985 earthquake, Wuqia County was rebuilt on the Gobi Desert.In order to create a good medical environment for patients, Wu Dengyun proposed a "ten-year tree project".There was no soil, so they went to the old city 7 kilometers away to pull the soil from one tree pit to another.Without water, they dug a 12-kilometer-long aqueduct from under the snow mountain.Year after year, a garden-like hospital was built on the Gobi Desert.

In 2001, Wu Dengyun retired from the leadership position of the hospital and only served as the vice chairman of the county CPPCC.But he still cares about the construction and development of the hospital.Every week, he works 3 days at the CPPCC and 3 days at the hospital as an expert outpatient. Wu Dengyun's medical ethics and skills have touched thousands of hearts. He has been awarded as a national model worker, a national double support advanced individual, and a national outstanding Communist Party member. Education tenured professor".The local people call him "angel in white" and "living Kong Fansen".