Volunteer relay delivers meals to children with leukemia
From the gated community to the hospital, a steaming meal from the pot to the child’s face takes only half an hour
On October 22, the new village of Baigezhuang, Shahe Town, Changping District, Beijing, was closed due to the epidemic.
This anxiously broke several parents.
Their child suffers from leukemia and lives in the Kyoto Children's Hospital 6 kilometers away.
Because the children can only eat strictly sterilized and well-cooked meals, they prepare meals at home every day and then send them to the hospital.
The parents were quarantined at home. In order to allow the children with leukemia to eat on time, a relay began.
Operator 12345: Dispatch orders within 10 minutes after receiving help
The relay begins with a phone call.
At 8:27 on October 23, Li Mu (pseudonym), an operator of the Beijing 12345 Citizens Hotline, received a call for help.
The caller is Zhao An (pseudonym), who lives in the Baigezhuang New Village Community in Changping, Beijing.
Since July this year, his 4-year-old child has been treated at Kyoto Children's Hospital for leukemia.
As the children can only eat strictly sterilized meals and cannot eat takeaways, Zhao An prepares meals at home and sends them to the hospital every day.
On the 22nd, after the Baigezhuang New Village community in Changping was closed due to the epidemic, Zhao An became anxious.
"I couldn't go out to deliver meals. I told the community staff at the beginning that he helped find a volunteer to deliver meals. But every time it was troublesome to find someone, I searched the Internet for help. , And later found the 12345 citizen hotline." Zhao An told the Beijing News reporter.
According to Li Mu, since the epidemic, the 12345 hotline has received inquiries and requests from citizens on epidemic prevention and control every day, such as inquiries about domestic and foreign policies on entering and returning to Beijing, and appointment of vaccinations. , I hope to coordinate the distribution of daily necessities, prescribe medicines for patients, and visit doctors."
On the phone, Zhao An stated the difficulties he encountered. Li Mu made a record and dispatched the order to Shahe Town, Changping District at 8:37.
When Wang Wenhui received this request for help from the Shahe Township government, he was busy organizing the residents to do nucleic acid testing.
She works in the Baigezhuang Village Committee. Although it is Saturday, she is busier than usual because of the epidemic.
"I didn't know that this happened at the time." Wang Wenhui immediately contacted Zhao An to understand the situation. "The sickness of the child itself is a very heavy burden. If he can't eat anymore, it is in the treatment period. I am afraid that the nutrition of the child will not keep up. I felt very uncomfortable, so I said, "I will definitely help you solve it.""
Community Volunteers: Just a small effort
Wang Wenhui thought of Wang Yao.
39-year-old Wang Yao is a resident of Baigezhuang New Village Community. After the community was closed, he took the initiative to find the village committee and do volunteer work in the community.
"There are food delivery carts in the community, and I will help pull the carts." Wang Yao said.
When Wang Wenhui wanted to give him the task of "delivering food to the children", he immediately agreed, "I had contacted a social worker in the hospital at the time and came to the south gate of the community to pick it up, and I would get the food from the parents. Put it away and send it to the south gate. It's just a matter of effort."
At noon on the 23rd, Zhao An received a call from Wang Wenhui, “Said that everything has been arranged, and returned to Wang Yao’s contact information, everyone is really enthusiastic.” That night, Wang Yao helped him deliver the meal. Got out.
The parents’ problem was solved, but Wang Wenhui’s heart was not completely let go.
"During the outbreak at the beginning of last year, when residents went out and returned to Beijing to report, some residents also mentioned that their children were treated for leukemia at the Kyoto Children's Hospital. I think more than one family needs help."
Years of community work experience makes her very sensitive.
She immediately asked Zhao An to help contact a family in a similar situation.
According to statistics, 5 children with leukemia in the Baigezhuang New Village community are receiving treatment at the Kyoto Children's Hospital. Among them, 4 need to deliver meals every day, and 1 needs to deliver medicines and daily necessities.
On the evening of the 23rd, Mr. Sang, who was in a hurry, received a call from Wang Yao, “Confirm my unit building number and mobile phone number, and then you can deliver food for me.” Since the closure of the community, his children have been following the same ward. Other patients eat, "One or two meals are okay, but it won’t work for a long time."
Wang Yao's workload has increased.
On the morning of the 24th, he got up at six o'clock and left the house less than eight o'clock.
Five families lived in different unit buildings. Wang Yao drove his car and came downstairs to each one in turn.
They have a WeChat group, "When the meal is ready, the parents will say it in the group, and I will say it in any building I go to, let the parents take the meal down, and also ask the social worker in the hospital when it will arrive."
In just ten minutes, Wang Yao was able to collect all the meals from several houses and deliver them to the south gate of the community.
Hospital social worker: the patients help each other
It was Wang Ji (a pseudonym), a volunteer from the Social Work Department of Kyoto Children's Hospital, who received the lunch box at the south gate.
He was only a family member of the patient. "The child had a tumor. Three or four years ago, we came to Beijing from Zhejiang to see a doctor and lived next to the Kyoto Children's Hospital." Volunteers were recruited to help a dozen parents in the community deliver medicines and meals to hospitalized children. He immediately joined in, "As long as we can help, we will help. Everyone is a patient who came to Beijing from other places to treat the illness for so long. It is not easy without the mutual help of the patients."
"When they were in the most difficult time, someone in the society helped them. This is also a kind of feedback. I hope that they can contribute a share of value when others are in difficulty. So they are all very positive. As long as the patient says something is wrong, they can Let go of the child's affairs and help others." Liu Linshan, deputy director of the social work department of the Kyoto Children's Hospital, told the Beijing News reporter.
This time, Wang Ji and two or three other volunteers took turns to help the parents of Baigezhuang New Village Community deliver food.
I got the lunch box from the south gate of the community, and I could drive to the hospital in just over ten minutes, because several children were in different wards and they had to take their meals to different nurses' stations.
It takes only half an hour for a serving of steaming meals from the pot to the time when they are placed in front of the children.
"Patients with leukemia have relatively high requirements for eating, and they have to finish eating within two hours after they are out of the pot." Mr. Fan, the parent of the child, told the Beijing News reporter that his child had a transplant operation a month ago, and he gets up at 5 o'clock every morning and gets up. Congee, sterilized tableware, "I was anxious at the beginning, I was afraid that if the child could not eat, the indicators would be low."
On the first day the community was closed, he contacted the social worker of the hospital to help deliver meals.
Liu Linshan also began to count which patients’ family members were quarantined, “record their house numbers and children’s names, and help them solve their children’s eating problems as soon as possible.” Until now, every day at 8 o’clock in the morning, 11:30 noon, and 5 in the evening. At half past o'clock, volunteers from the community and the social work department of the hospital will start this "relay" of food delivery.
Zhao An and other parents were very grateful, "It is very good to do practical things for people in a timely manner."
"In fact, it is also our own business. When everyone has difficulties throughout their lives, everyone hopes that someone can help themselves." Liu Linshan said.
During the time when food is not being delivered, Wang Yao still stands guard in the community.
There are many volunteers like him in Baigezhuang New Village. Some are responsible for receiving medical insurance cards, buying and delivering medicines to patients, some accompany residents to see a doctor, some are responsible for delivering vegetables and express delivery, and some are responsible for guarding the intersection.
Since the community was closed, it was usually after ten o'clock in the evening to go home, and Wang Wenhui was often busy until two o'clock in the morning the next day.
"All should be done." Wang Wenhui and Wang Yao repeated these words.
Beijing News reporter Peng Chong