China News Agency, Beijing, August 9th, question: Zhou Feihu, director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine of the First Medical Center of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital: Chinese military doctors who have gone to dangerous places three times
Author Li Chun Ge Chuang Cheng Cheng
"At that time, did you think you were just a doctor? You represented China and spread our love." Recalling the experience of several overseas medical rescue missions, the director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine of the First Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital "Every action of each of us represents China because you know you are a Chinese military doctor," Zhou Feihu said.
In the past six years, the Chinese military doctor has carried out medical rescue missions overseas three times.
"In our eyes, life is the same, no skin color, no race, and we will do our best to treat it."
"The most beautiful Chinese face"
In January 2015, as the captain of the medical team of the PLA General Hospital, Zhou Feihu participated in the second batch of the PLA medical team to Liberia to help the country fight against the Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic.
At that time, the epidemic in this West African country was far more serious than imagined: the number of registered doctors in the country was seriously insufficient, the medical rescue system was completely paralyzed, and many primary medical institutions could only rely on a small number of volunteers to maintain operations.
The Ebola virus fatality rate is as high as 70% in the country.
Muruba is the first patient admitted to an Ebola treatment center in China.
Zhou Feihu recalled that the primary school teacher was horrified at the time, and that two of her relatives had died of Ebola virus.
"The horror of death from Ebola is far higher than that of other viruses."
In the absence of specific medicines, Zhou Feihu and his comrades organized consultations as soon as possible, from the perspective of critical medical treatment, to improve the patients' basic diseases and restore damaged organ function.
Every time he rounds the room, Zhou Feihu has to pull Muruba's hand on purpose to give her the strength to fight against the disease.
After 21 days and nights of perseverance, the medical team saved the life of the critically ill patient.
After he recovered and was discharged from the hospital, Muruba returned to see the Chinese military doctors.
"I want to remember your real faces," she said. "Your faces are different, but they are all the most beautiful Chinese faces."
During more than 60 days and nights in West Africa, Zhou Feihu, as a critical care expert, received a total of 61 patients with his comrades in arms, and the success rate of critically ill patients was over 80%.
All medical team members achieved zero infection.
"Let them come back 100% safe"
On May 31, 2016, the fourth batch of Chinese peacekeeping troops to Mali suffered a terrorist attack. One soldier was killed and four soldiers were injured to varying degrees.
In an emergency, Zhou Feihu led a medical team to Mali, so that the seriously injured comrades could be quickly treated and returned home safely.
Due to medical conditions in Mali, the wounded were quickly sent to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Senegal, and returned to China for further treatment after their vital signs were stabilized.
As the only critical medical expert in the medical team, Zhou Feihu stayed behind to take care of the wounded.
It is also based on his analysis and judgment of the injury that the local hospital quickly implemented effective treatment for the seriously wounded, winning precious time for saving lives.
More than 30 hours and 11,000 kilometers, the journey home is long and long.
In order to prevent accidents, Zhou Feihu paid close attention to the condition of the four soldiers, repeatedly assessed the respiratory function and blood coagulation function of the wounded, and performed auscultation, leg lifts, and massages for them. There was almost no rest during the whole process.
"We must ensure 100% safety on the road, there can be no problems, they are our heroes." Zhou Feihu said: "My mission, my duty, my mission is to make them come back 100% safely, only the plane fell to the ground, It's that relief when you're down to earth."
"Military doctors have a heavy mission on their shoulders"
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Zhou Feihu has always been fighting on the front line.
When the international epidemic became more and more serious, he acted as the leader of the PLA's anti-epidemic expert team in Pakistan, leading a team to aid Pakistan in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
At that time, the epidemic situation in Pakistan was severe. The large number of infected people brought the medical system to the brink of collapse. Medical supplies such as masks and protective clothing were extremely scarce, and there were clusters of infection cases in many hospitals.
"My first procedure for changing protective clothing was on the minibus." While the prevention and control process in the ward was not yet perfect, Zhou Feihu took the lead in entering the new crown ward, and timely treated the critically ill patients with the new crown through front-line rounds and joint consultations. patient.
After coming out of the "red zone", he immediately drew all the details he saw on the map to optimize the ward prevention and control process.
Relying on many foreign aid experiences, Zhou Feihu and his comrades formulated various prevention and control systems during the two months of working in foreign countries to guide epidemic prevention and control throughout Pakistan. "Basically, all designated hospitals have been visited."
The expert group also relies on the Emirates Army Hospital, one of the country's new crown designated hospitals, to carry out clinical work, and to train military medical nursing students and medical officers in the Pakistani capital.
After 60 days, the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Pakistan was effectively controlled, and local enterprises resumed work and production.
The "New Crown Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment Recommendations" written by Zhou Feihu and his comrades and China's experience in fighting the new crown epidemic have been used for reference by Pakistan and neighboring Asian countries.
"For so many years in medicine, it is our duty as a doctor to save lives. More often, a people's military doctor has a heavy mission on his shoulders." Zhou Feihu said.
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