Chapter 57 56. Li Mengtao - love the frontier fish and water

Li Mengtao, male, Han nationality, native of Shanghai, member of the Communist Party of China. Born in 1948, he went to work in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in 1964. He is currently Secretary of the Party Committee of Qitai Hospital of the Sixth Agricultural Division. Located on the border of China and Mongolia, the Beita Mountain Ranch has an average altitude of more than 3,000 meters and an average annual temperature of only 2.4 degrees. Five ethnic groups, including Han, Kazakh, Mongolian, Hui, and Tibetan, live there. The natural conditions are very harsh. Li Mengtao, director of the Beitashan Ranch Hospital of the Sixth Agricultural Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, was born in June 1948 and joined the party in November 1985.He came to the foot of Tianshan Mountain from the banks of the Huangpu River in 1964, and started his military reclamation career supporting the frontier reclamation and guarding the frontier, and put the party's care and warmth for the ethnic minorities into action.The local ethnic minority compatriots affectionately called him "the good son of the Kazakh people". In 2000, he was awarded the titles of "National Health System Advanced Worker" by the Ministry of Health, "Wu Dengyun Advanced Medical Worker" in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, "Model Individual of National Unity and Progress" and "Advanced Worker" by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.

Li Mengtao was a young man from Shanghai in the 1960s. In 1964, Li Mengtao, who had just graduated from junior high school and was only 16 years old, responded to the call of the party and the state to support the frontier of the motherland and develop and build the Great Northwest. Beita Mountain is a mountain range across the border between China and Mongolia, stretching for hundreds of miles, with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. The mountains are criss-crossed and disorderly. At that time, the Kazakhs accounted for more than 80% of the ranch, and the rest were Han, Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan and other ethnic groups.There are 5 grazing teams in the field, which are divided into more than 150 grazing points, scattered among the mountains.Li Mengtao was assigned to the No. 2 Animal Husbandry Team, which was headquartered in a place called Wulatai.Li Mengtao reported to Wulastai with his medicine box and luggage on his back. The team gave him a horse, a sheepskin coat, a pair of felt blankets and a rifle, and he began to go to work officially.

Due to the influence of traditional habits, most women in pastoral areas give birth in yurts, often resulting in the death of mother and child or other diseases.When encountering pregnant women with dystocia, herdsmen use camels and horses to send them to the field or down the mountain, and often the pregnant women die when they get halfway there.Once, a young woman named Nurhai Xia had a difficult labor while giving birth in a yurt, and the family called Li Mengtao.At that time, the mother suffered from epilepsy and other symptoms, and her life was dying.Due to the poor medical conditions and inexperience, the baby was finally delivered despite all-out efforts, but the life of the mother could not be saved.Li Mengtao was so sad that she shed tears, but the host comforted him: "It's not your fault, Qiao (Little) Lizi, you have tried your best."

This incident greatly shocked Li Mengtao.Since then, Li Mengtao has worked harder in her research, her enthusiasm for work has increased, and she has become more serious and responsible for patients.In the yurt, under the oil lamp and on the back of the horse, he studied hard and practiced hard; he used his meager wages to buy medical books and order medical publications, absorbing the nutrients of medical knowledge.In a relatively short period of time, he has mastered general diagnosis and treatment theories and techniques in internal medicine, external medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and five sense organs.

For a long time, due to the poor environment and hard life in the Beitashan area, it has been difficult to retain people on the ranch, and the talents needed by the hospital also came and left soon.When Li Mengtao took office, he made up his mind to train a group of medical personnel who can be retained and used, and build a stable and high-quality medical team.When he first arrived in Beitashan, there was not a single ethnic minority comrade in the hospital.With the support of the field, after years of hard work by Li Mengtao and his colleagues, a group of native ethnic minority medical staff has grown up.Among the more than 30 medical staff in the hospital, Kazakh comrades account for 75%.Beitashan Ranch Hospital is like a big multi-ethnic family. Comrades of all ethnic groups learn from each other, learn from each other, and live in harmony.Every ethnic minority festival such as Eid al-Adha, comrades of the Han nationality take the initiative to be on duty in the hospital; every Spring Festival, comrades of ethnic minorities take the initiative to be on duty.This has become the norm at the ranch hospital.

Over the past few decades, Li Mengtao has had many opportunities to leave Beita Mountain, but he has not left. He is reluctant to part with the mountains, rivers, plants and trees here, and the brothers of all ethnic groups here. The herdsmen here need him. On July 1, 2001, at the meeting celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Li Mengtao was awarded the honorary title of "National Outstanding Communist Party Member" by the Party Central Committee. On July 4th, Li Mengtao returned from Beijing with great honor, and returned to the Beita Mountain Ranch that he had always dreamed of.Facing the colorful flags and welcoming crowds, Li Mengtao said excitedly: "I am the son of Beitashan. My glory belongs to brothers and sisters of all ethnic groups in the frontier, to the more than 200,000 Communist Party members of the Corps, and to the party and the people. From now on, I have only one wish , is to work harder to be a good server for brothers and sisters of all ethnic groups!"