Chinanews.com, Nanchang, February 18th, title: Female Doctors Aided by China in Africa: Gaining Trust and Respect and Feeling Very Happy
Author Wu Pengquan Xu Mengwen Liu Lixin
"The Tunisian people have great trust and respect for Chinese doctors. When purchasing in the market, they will greet our group of Chinese doctors in unproficient Chinese." The non-period working life is still fresh in my memory.
Yu Lamei, deputy director of obstetrics and chief physician of Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, was interviewed by reporters.
Photo by Liu Lixin
A reporter from Chinanews recently interviewed Yu Lamei, deputy director of obstetrics and chief physician of Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
In November 2018, she volunteered to join the 23rd batch of Chinese (Jiangxi) medical aid team to Tunisia, starting a one-year foreign aid medical work.
What Yu Lamei didn't expect was that the Medenine region of Tunisia where she is located has harsh natural conditions, high temperature and dryness, perennial sandstorms, and drinking water cannot be guaranteed.
The backward medical conditions surprised her even more. "In a typical area that lacks medical care and medicine, some common domestic antibiotics are not available."
The picture shows a local pregnant woman treated by Yu Lamei during her aid to Africa.
Photo provided by the interviewee
The medical facilities of the Medening Regional Hospital are weak, but there are many obstetrics and gynecology patients.
There is no obstetrician and gynecologist in the hospital. Yu Lamei and another Chinese doctor are responsible for obstetrics and gynecology rounds, B-ultrasound, outpatient and emergency, and surgery. "Two shifts" have become the norm in daily work. "During the aid to Africa, we A total of about 3,000 pregnant women were treated, and more than 600 cesarean sections were performed, and the workload was basically two to three times that of China."
Yu Lamei still remembers that when she first arrived in Africa for a month, she received an emergency pregnant woman with "fetal distress and placental abruption". The fetal heart rate was only more than 80 times per minute and she was in urgent need of surgery.
When the handwashing nurse placed the scalpel, she accidentally scratched Yu Lamei's right arm with the blade.
After simply washing the wound, Yu Lamei risked infection to complete the operation, and the mother and baby finally turned the corner.
The picture shows a group photo of Yu Lamei with a patient during her aid to Africa.
Photo provided by the interviewee
Postpartum hemorrhage refractory to cesarean section is a medical problem at Medening Regional Hospital.
A pregnant woman with a full-term twin pregnancy presented with severe acute heart failure and severe anemia.
Due to the mother's uterine weakness and heavy bleeding, Yu Lamei, who had been working for a long time, completed the cesarean section and performed a ligation of the ascending branch of the bilateral uterine artery and suturing of the uterine strap for the mother. The operation was very successful.
In order to thank the Chinese doctor for her treatment, the mother's family named the newborn daughter "lamia" (homonym for "winter plum").
"Many of the mothers we have delivered are keen to introduce their relatives and friends to give birth here." Yu Lamei spoke proudly.
The picture shows Yu Lamei conducting ward rounds during her aid to Africa.
Photo provided by the interviewee
What makes local doctors and patients unforgettable is that Yu Lamei used her professional expertise to carry out bedside rounds, medical record discussions, training and lectures in aid hospitals in Africa, and popularized medical knowledge to local nurses; Clinical knowledge and operational skills.
Before going to the African continent, the medical aid team members will receive French training.
After returning to China, Yu Lamei forgot many French words, but the word "urgence" has always impressed her deeply.
"In French, this means emergency." Yu Lamei recalled that at the Medening Regional Hospital, whenever the midwife said "urgence" to her, she would jump up and rush to the operating room, because it meant There is a life waiting to be saved.
"For a while after returning to China, I even had auditory hallucinations, and I always felt that someone was shouting 'urgence'."
The picture shows a group photo of Yu Lamei with local women during her aid to Africa.
Photo provided by the interviewee
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the dispatch of the Chinese medical team to foreign aid, and also the 50th anniversary of the dispatch of the Jiangxi Provincial Medical Team to Tunisia.
According to statistics, in the past 50 years, Jiangxi has sent 45 batches of medical teams with 1,468 personnel to aid Africa (including 27 batches of 1,153 person-times to Tunisia, providing more than 6 million outpatient services), providing 7.8 million medical services for recipient countries.
"The trip to aid Africa was an extraordinary life experience for me." Recalling the days of aiding Africa, Yu Lamei bluntly said that it was difficult but fulfilling.
Every time she feels the local people's respect and enthusiasm for oriental faces, she feels extremely happy, "I think this is the value of a medical worker who aids Africa."
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