Chapter 56 55. Li Suzhi - General Monba for the people for free

Li Suzhi, male, Han nationality, from Linyi City, Shandong Province, a member of the Communist Party of China. Born in 1954 and enlisted in the army in 1970, he is currently the deputy commander of the Tibet Military Region and the director of the General Hospital of the Tibet Military Region. After graduating from the Second Military Medical University in 1976, Li Suzhi gave up the favorable conditions of staying in Shanghai to work and took the initiative to apply for Tibet.In the past 33 years of working in Tibet, he has always had a deep affection for the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet. He has successively overcome the two world medical problems of plateau heart surgery and the prevention and treatment of altitude sickness. The incidence of acute altitude sickness in Tibet has dropped significantly. For 12 consecutive years, no officer or soldier in the troops stationed in Tibet died of acute altitude sickness.Among the more than 150 new technologies and new businesses he organized, 20 were world medical miracles, 36 were domestic firsts, 86 filled the gaps in plateau medicine, and won 20 national and military scientific and technological progress awards.He has successfully performed more than 13,000 large and small operations, rescued more than 600 critically ill patients, and successfully performed the first case of shallow hypothermia and beating heart in the plateau.In the past 13 years as the dean, he has led more than 500 medical teams, traveled more than one million kilometers, and visited more than 300,000 patients.He actively promoted free medical care for farmers and herdsmen in Tibet, and performed free sight restoration operations for more than 1,000 cataract patients. He was affectionately called "General Monba (Tibetan, doctor)" by the Tibetan people.

In December 1976, 22-year-old Li Suzhi voluntarily applied to enter Tibet from Shanghai Second Military Medical University.Li Suzhi, who had just arrived at the frontier health team at an altitude of 4,500 meters, was shaking, her heart was beating fast, and she had a splitting headache.Li Suzhi on the hospital bed was very clear-headed: "The life that broke into the restricted area of ​​life is fighting between life and death, and we must overcome the altitude sickness caused by the high cold and hypoxia!" Li Suzhi survived!Thinking of his comrades who have been patrolling the border defense line for many years, facing the rolling mountains, he made a solemn oath: "Doctors are messengers to protect life. I want to write the value of life in the restricted area of ​​life, and write it on the top of the earth!"

Li Suzhi's first operation in Tibet was in May of the second year in Tibet.Li Gang, a soldier of the frontier defense company of the Shannan Military Division, was seriously injured during the construction, with a hematoma in his brain and his life was dying.It was obviously too late to send Shannan, which is more than 300 kilometers away, for treatment.When everyone was anxious, Li Suzhi stood up and said calmly, "This is a brain contusion, intracranial hematoma and intracranial hypertension. A craniotomy must be performed immediately on the spot. I will do it." Second Medical University, working as a surgeon at the Changhai Hospital affiliated to the school, he is confident in performing craniotomy and decompression surgery.However, there was no precedent for opening the skull on a plateau at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters.Faced with the heavy lives of her comrades-in-arms, Li Suzhi resolutely stepped onto the temporary operating table.The god of death retreated under his scalpel, and Li Gang was saved.

That year, a "Plateau Congenital Heart Disease Survey Report" caught the attention of Li Suzhi, who had just arrived at the General Hospital: out of nearly 20,000 examinees, 60 people suffered from congenital heart disease.Li Suzhi vowed: "I will never give up heart surgery until I conquer the plateau!" Since then, the small wooden house next to the hospital morgue, which has been abandoned for many years, has become Li Suzhi's laboratory. Every experiment takes seven or eight hours .In order to observe and record the postoperative animals, Li Suzhi built a bed next to the experimental table, and slept in the cabin when it was late.He experienced thousands of failures before and after doing plateau heart surgery experiments, but in the face of failures, he was not afraid of setbacks, and he was determined to move forward bravely.Hard work pays off. On November 10, 2000, under the "live broadcast" of the news media, Li Suzhi successfully performed the open-heart surgery on a plateau with a shallow hypothermia above an altitude of 3,700 meters.The history that heart surgery cannot be performed on plateaus above 3,500 meters above sea level was finally rewritten by Li Suzhi.In the following four years, Li Suzhi relieved the pain of 487 heart disease patients, with a success rate of 98%.

There is no end to climbing, and Li Suzhi turned her attention to the prevention and treatment of altitude sickness. "Can a new drug be developed to eliminate altitude sickness in the bud?" Li Suzhi established a drug research institute and devoted herself to tackling key problems.During that time, in order to observe the efficacy of the medicine, Li Suzhi took the mice and pigs and ran between the Chengdu Plain and the grasslands of northern Tibet every day. After a few months, he lost 6 kilograms in weight. In June 2000, 11 mountain sickness experts solemnly announced the birth of a miracle in the Nagqu area at an altitude of 4,500 meters: the "Gaoyuankang" capsule developed by the General Hospital has a 98.6% prevention and treatment rate for acute mountain sickness, and the low-altitude areas The incidence rate of taking medicine in advance is less than 2%.Over the past few years, Li Suzhi led the medical staff of the General Hospital to reduce the incidence of acute mountain sickness from 50%-60% in the 1980s to 2%-3%, and the cure rate reached over 99%. 7 to 10 days shortened to within 24 hours.

Hard work has paid off richly. Li Suzhi has won first, second and third prizes 7 times.