On the afternoon of July 1, Wu Tianyi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and winner of the "July 1st Medal", was invited to return to the "natal home" of the Chinese Academy of Engineering to participate in an academician symposium.
In an interview after the meeting, he revealed that in response to the fact that there was no medical station or first aid station on the Chinese side of Mount Everest (Everest), he has led the completion of a medical emergency at a location about 5,000 meters above sea level and close to the Rongbuk Monastery on Mount Everest. station.
Academician Wu Tianyi said that after the Everest Medical First Aid Station near Rongbuk Monastery is put into use, it will be able to provide services for approximately 120,000 climbers, scientific researchers, tourists, and business people a year as needed in the future.
Academician Wu Tianyi has devoted himself to the research of plateau medicine for more than 50 years. He has proposed international standards for the prevention and treatment of altitude sickness, and initiated the study of "Tibetan Adaptation Physiology" to diagnose and treat tens of thousands of Tibetans.
During the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, he presided over the formulation of a series of altitude sickness prevention measures and first aid plans, creating the miracle that no railway construction workers died due to altitude sickness, and he was called the "protector of life."
(Reporter Sun Zifa produced Guo Shihao)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]