The 18-year-old girl owed more than 50,000 yuan in medical expenses and was discharged. The hospital did not say a word. Two years later...

"Warm-hearted repayment of debts" for girls who "owe money"

  Our reporter Mao Xin

  "Five thousand three thousand eight hundred twenty-nine yuan and six cents. That's right." On July 8, Wei Yuedong, a girl from the Wa ethnic group in Yunnan, entered the password on the POS machine at the charging window of the Lingnan Hospital in Foshan City.

  After pressing the last number, Wei Yuedong and her husband laughed. For this moment, she waited 905 days.

  On January 15, 2018, Wei Yuedong was discharged from the hospital. That day, she dragged her body that was still inconvenient, and also carried away a "debt" of 53829.68 yuan, and returned to her hometown in Pu'er, Yunnan to recover.

  On July 8, 2020, Wei Yuedong traveled more than 1,500 kilometers from his hometown to Foshan, Guangdong, and took the initiative to pay off the forgotten medical arrears.

  53829.68, these seven numbers are a medical arrears that has been late for more than two years. They are also like a line of code, recording Wei Yuedong's promise and trustworthiness story. The story of this "healing department" has warmed the hearts of the people in a city recently and moved countless netizens.

"We really haven't thought about whether she will return to pay for medical expenses."

  The story goes back to the day three years ago.

  On the evening of September 18, 2017, an alarm bell rang in the Lingnan Hospital of Foshan. A girl with blood on her head in a coma was rushed to the emergency room of the hospital.

  This girl is Wei Yuedong, who has just turned 18. She rode an electric car behind a large truck that night, causing serious head injuries.

  The situation is critical! In the absence of family members and no advance payment, the hospital opened a green channel for her.

  "At that time, the girl was covered with blood, and her pupils quickly dilated after arriving at the hospital. It was a very severe traumatic brain injury. Even if the rescue success rate was still less than 10%. If the operation was not performed immediately, she would definitely die." Lingnan Hospital Li Dehua, the attending physician of brain surgery, recalled the scene at that time.

  Acute subdural hemorrhage in the right cerebral hemisphere with brain herniation, bilateral frontotemporal brain contusion, scalp hematoma with left temporal bone fracture... These few lines in the medical record still make people feel critical at the time.

  Li Dehua said frankly that in treating such critically ill patients, the hospital has assumed the risk. But the situation is not too much to think about, he issued various surgical instructions at that time. After more than three hours of intensive surgery, Wei Yuedong was sent to the intensive care unit.

  "In order for her to get the best treatment, we have used all the medicines we should use." Li Dehua said that the hospital did not have hyperbaric oxygen treatment equipment at the time, so he sent a special car to take her to the nearby Xiqiao People's Hospital for hyperbaric oxygen for more than 10 days. treatment.

  After fighting with death for 20 days, she went from a deep coma to slowly regaining consciousness, and then her vital signs stabilized. After nearly 4 months of rehabilitation, Wei Yuedong was discharged from the hospital.

  To treat Wei Yuedong, the hospital paid more than 180,000 yuan in medical expenses. When she was discharged from the hospital, she still had more than 50,000 yuan left. Taking into account the financial difficulties of Wei Yuedong's family, the hospital did not urge her to pay the debts, but let her be discharged smoothly.

  "At that time, watching her recover from the danger of her life, we were very pleased and felt that the previous adventures and efforts were worthwhile. When she was discharged from the hospital, we were also happy for her. If she would not come back to pay the medical expenses, we really didn’t think. Over.” said Niu Junmin, director of Lingnan Hospital.

  After Wei Yuedong was discharged from the hospital, Niu Junmin and Li Dehua were still busy on the rescue line.

  Days go by, day by day, this over 50,000 yuan in medical arrears is slowly forgotten.

  But in Pu'er, more than 1,500 kilometers away from Foshan, this account is always held in the hearts of Wei Yuedong's family.

  "The doctor gave me a second life, and I have to pay off this debt anyway!"

  After being discharged from the hospital, Wei Yuedong returned to his hometown in Yunnan to recuperate, while her husband worked in Foshan and was engaged in portering work. His monthly salary was about 4,000 yuan.

  In order to save money, the husband lives in a simple rental house: under the "ceiling" made up of plastic sheets, a bed is placed against the corner, and finger-wide gaps can be seen everywhere on the bare brick wall. The monthly living expenses and renting expenses are controlled within 1,000 yuan, and even the most urgently needed electric fan is broken.

  For them, they can't save much money if they eat frugally for a year. The medical expenses of more than 50,000 yuan are not easy at all.

  "Every month, my husband would put out two or three thousand yuan of salary into the bank card, leaving only 1,000 yuan for living expenses." Wei Yuedong said that her husband had never complained to her, but she knew in her heart that her husband How much bitter he has suffered over the years, "Every night when he goes back to the dormitory, he is so tired that he falls asleep after eating and taking a shower."

  Over the past two years, I have been saving bit by bit, and then relying on part of my parents' savings, and finally saved enough money. On June 18 this year, accompanied by his family, Wei Yuedong took a 14-hour bus from his hometown to Kunming and then to Foshan.

  On the morning of July 8, Li Dehua, who had just arrived at the office, received a call: "Doctor Li, are you in the hospital today? I want to come over and pay the medical bills."

  "Medical expenses? Which patient are you?" Li Dehua tried to recall.

  "Do you remember me? I am Wei Yuedong's husband. A few years ago, my wife was in a car accident and was seriously injured. You rescued him."

  "Wei Yuedong!" The memories of the past immediately appeared before Li Dehua's eyes. In a later call, Li Dehua learned about Wei Yuedong’s situation after she was discharged from the hospital. She is now in good health. After her husband sent her back to her hometown, she returned to Foshan to work. She saved some money in the past two years and wanted to come to the hospital today. Pay off the medical expenses owed.

  In the afternoon, Wei Yuedong was accompanied by her husband to the hospital counter to settle the bill. Both the husband and wife felt at ease when they got the payment receipt from the POS machine.

  She also took out her mobile phone and shared the video of their baby who was one year old with the doctor. This scene moved Li Dehua and many of his colleagues present.

  In fact, in the days after he was discharged from the hospital, Wei Yuedong never received a call from the hospital. But when asked why he didn't wait for a stable life before paying it back, Wei Yuedong said: "I can't forget that they gave me a second life. I have to pay off this debt anyway!"

"Medical ethics and integrity have added bright colors to the world"

  A person moves a city. Wei Yuedong's spirit of honesty and the hospital's story of saving lives and helping the wounded have warmed the hearts of the people in the city after being reported by the media and moved countless netizens. In an online message, a netizen said, "This is medical ethics, this is honesty, and they all add bright colors to the world."

  On July 13, Wei Yuedong and Li Dehua received the "Certificate of Like" from the Civilization Office of Chancheng District, Foshan City, and Wei Yuedong was also selected as a candidate for the "Model of Morality in Chancheng District".

  Next, Wei Yuedong still needs to undergo skull repair surgery.

  "Last time, we put saving people first, this time it is still." Niu Junmin said. Li Dehua on the side took out Wei Yuedong's admission notice, and the prepayment column showed "0".

  Li Dehua said that the hospital has ordered a titanium mesh for surgery and is evaluating the timing of surgery based on Wei Yuedong’s physical condition. “If everything goes well, she will be able to achieve a full recovery by the end of this year and participate in work normally. "

  Honesty is priceless, and there is love in the world. People from all walks of life in Foshan also extended a helping hand to guard the recovery of the Wa girl.

  Foshan City is planning to give her financial assistance through the "Good People Fund" and the "Guaranteed People Fund" in Chancheng District. The Charity Association of Nanzhuang Town, Chancheng District also launched caring companies and associations to raise funds to help Wei Yuedong reduce the burden of subsequent medical expenses. Zinan Village, the National Civilization Village in Nanzhuang Town, promised to help them solve the problems of their husbands and wives' employment and children's entry into young children in the future.

  Not only that, but some caring citizens who did not want to be named volunteered to donate "a little bit of care" to Wei Yuedong and wish her "successful and safe operation, and healthy and happy family."

  "Wei Yuedong is not only a beneficiary of Foshan, but also a practitioner of Foshan," said Gan Qixia, director of the Foshan Civilization Office. Wei Yuedong's deeds of trustworthiness in repayment for thousands of miles caused a spirit of integrity in Foshan. Big discussion.

  In recent years, Foshan has established a good candidate tree mechanism to guide citizens to "learn good people, respect good people, and be good people" through the issuance of "Like Certificates", promotion of media publicity, construction of "Foshan Good People Hall", and introduction of courtesy assistance measures. , Help good people".

  So far, there are 1,718 people of various moral models and good people around the city, including 29 people who are “honest and trustworthy” advanced models above the city level.

  "We hope that by learning from Wei Yuedong's deeds of integrity, we will continue to strengthen the construction of civic ethics in the new era, so that integrity and dedication will become the spiritual mark of Foshan's practice of socialist core values." Gan Qixia said.