Sokov saw Asia's confused look and guessed that it was the first time she heard this. He put his arm around her shoulder and walked outward and said, "Asia, go back and tell Pavlov's military doctor about this, and let the deputy commander of the front army use the method of the wounded who have undergone surgery to relieve pain."
Before Asia could answer, Sokov heard Golikov ask in the back: "Comrade Asia, are there enough medical staff there?"
"Report to Comrade General," Asia stopped, turned to look at Golikov, and replied respectfully: "After the merger of the health team of the infantry brigade and the field hospital of the Guard Division, our military doctors and health workers had more than 70 people. Although the staff was a little tight, he could barely deal with it because of the assistance of the soldiers who left behind the tunnel."
"There are thousands of wounded people added at once. Do you have enough places to accommodate them?" Golikov looked at Sokov and continued: "You know, the temperature outside is low. If the wounded people stay in the snow and ice, they may endanger their lives."
"Comrade General, please rest assured about this." Asia replied politely with a smile: "It turns out that after the thousands of commanders and fighters stationed in the tunnel left, there was enough space to accommodate the wounded."
Golikov nodded and said to Asia: "Comrade Asia, please go back and tell the captain of the health team that I will send the medicines you need as soon as possible."
Just as Asia saluted and turned around and was about to leave, Golikov asked unexpectedly: "There is another thing, I think it's quite strange. Why are you a health team, but a division field hospital?"
Asia thought Golikov was asking herself, but when she turned around, she saw Golikov staring at Sokov and asked, she didn't say anything, but stood quietly aside.
"Comrade Deputy Commander of the Front Army," Ivanov took the initiative to say, "I know the reason for this matter, please allow me to report it to you."
"Please say it, comrade Colonel."
"That's right, our division had just completed the replenishment work before re-entering Stalingrad." Ivanov explained to Golikov: "But the superiors only added soldiers and officers to us, but did not add military doctors and health workers who lost in the battle. Nominally, the system of field hospitals was still there, but there were only a dozen military doctors and health workers. Therefore, when they merged with the infantry brigade, after discussion with the division commander, they were changed to a health team."
"So that's how it is." After hearing Ivanov's explanation, Golikov nodded slightly, turned to Sokov and said, "Col. Sokov, when we win this battle and destroy the army commanded by Paulus, you must rebuild the division field hospital again. Do you understand?"
"I understand, Comrade, Deputy Commander of the Front Army." In fact, even if Golikov did not mention this matter, after the end of the Stalingrad defense war, Sokov also planned to ask Cui Kov for a group of medical staff to re-establish the division's field hospital: "As soon as the battle ends, we will restore the system of field hospitals as soon as possible."
All the words Sokov and Golikov said were clearly heard by Asia who was standing aside. Sokov turned around and said to Asia: "Asia, after you go back, you can tell Pavlov the military doctor. As for the position of director of the rebuilt Division Field Hospital, I will recommend him to my superiors and hope he will perform well during this period."
"Don't worry," Asia smiled sweetly at Sokov: "I will tell Pavlov the military doctor this good news."
After returning to the health team, Asia grabbed a passing health officer and asked at the other party: "Did you see where did the military doctor Pavlov be?"
"Asia, he's doing surgery in the operating room, you can go there to find him."
After thanking the other party, Asia passed through the middle of the stretcher placed on the ground and came to the operating room with a familiar path. When she arrived at the door, she happened to see two stretchers carrying a wounded man out of the room. She quickly went to the side and let the stretcher pass.
She lifted the curtain and walked into the operating room. She saw Pavlov sitting by the wall with a tired face, holding a bottle of glucose water in his hand, and taking a sip from time to time. Seeing Asia come in from outside, she raised her eyes and asked, "Asia, how about it, when can the teacher give us the medicine we need?"
"Comrade Military Doctor," Asia came to Pavlov's side and squatted down, saying to him with joy: "When I just went to the division headquarters, General Golikov, the deputy commander of the Front Army, was also there. After he learned that we were short of medicine, he said that he would contact the Front Army Command on the Left Bank and send us a batch as soon as possible."
Hearing Asia say this, Pavlov smiled bitterly and said, "Asia, there are at least one or two hundred wounded people waiting for the operation outside. There are no other medicines and can be temporarily delayed. But if there is no anesthetic, many wounded people may not be able to bear the pain during the operation."
"I know," Asia said, "I saw several wounded people fainted from pain during the operation."
Pavlov raised his head and took a sip of water, and said with a wry smile: "At the time you went to the division headquarters, a wounded person suffered a lot of pain during the operation because there was no anesthetic. If there was no anesthetic, I think there would be wounded who died during the operation."
When Asia heard Pavlov say this, she immediately remembered the folk remedy that Golikov said, and asked tentatively: "Military doctor, I want to ask you, if coffee is used to feed the wounded, can it help relieve pain?"
Pavlov widened his eyes in surprise. He grabbed Asia's arm and asked excitedly: "Asia, how do you know that this method can relieve pain?"
"I heard General Golikov said." Asia carefully broke her arm out of Pavlov's hand and explained: "He said that during World War I, the German army lacked anesthetics, their military doctors used this method to relieve pain and then perform surgery."
"General Golikov is right. This method can indeed relieve pain." Pavlov nodded and said, "But if the operation is not properly done, it may lead to intestinal perforation of the injured and endanger life."
When Asia confirmed that the coffee was poured, her intestines could indeed relieve pain, she felt a little happy in her heart. Unexpectedly, the method General Golikov said was really effective. But after hearing what Pavlov said, her heart suddenly sank again, endangering the life of the wounded in order to relieve pain, which made her hesitate: "Comrade Military Doctor, can we use this method to relieve pain for the wounded?"
"In the absence of anesthetics, we can only try this method. As for whether it will endanger life, we will not consider these issues for the time being, and save the person first and then cure the disease. As long as we save the person, we have some ways to restore his health in the future." Pavlov said, and took another sip of water: "Asia, I will take a rest, and then get up and continue the operation."
"By the way, comrade military doctor, I have some good news to tell you."
"What news?" Pavlov asked weakly.
"After this battle, the division will restore the division's field hospital." Asia smiled and said to Pavlov: "Misha said that he plans to let you serve as the first director after the reconstruction."
After saying this, Pavlov, who was sitting next to him, was still drinking glucose water listlessly, looking like he didn't listen carefully. Asia felt a little bored and was about to get up and continue working. Who would have thought that as soon as she stood up, she heard a "splash" sound. The glucose water bottle in Pavlov's hand fell to the ground. He stood up suddenly, pointed at Asia, her fingers kept trembling, and her mouth opened and closed but could not say a word.
"Asia!" Fortunately, a female health worker in the operation asked him what he said: "Are you all true?"
"Of course it's true." Asia nodded to the female health officer and said with certainty: "I don't think Misha would joke with me about such things, right? By the way, he asked me to come back and tell the military doctor Pavlov in person."
After getting confirmation from Asia, Pavlov, who was originally a little depressed, suddenly became energetic as if he was injected with chicken blood. He asked at the female health officer who was talking, "How long have I been resting?"
The female health worker quickly opened an alarm clock on the table not far away and replied: "Military doctor, you have rested for three minutes. You have undergone more than a dozen surgeries in a row, and you have to rest for at least a quarter of an hour before you can barely recover your strength."
"No need, I think I can still hold on." Pavlov, who seemed energetic, waved his hand at the other party and said in a commanding tone: "Let the stretcher outside carry the new wounded in. We cannot let the wounded wait too long, and strive to complete all the surgeries before dawn tomorrow."
Although Asia knew that there were more than one place for the operation, there were too many wounded people outside. Even if the military doctor helped the military doctors work overtime, they would not be able to finish it in a short while. She quickly asked Pavlov: "Comrade Military Doctor, I have nothing to do now, please allow me to perform surgery on the wounded."
"This is really great, Comrade Asia." Seeing that Asia is willing to help, Pavlov felt relieved. He pointed his hand at the side and said, "The operating room next door is still empty. You can find two assistants and perform the surgery there."
The new wounded quickly came in, and the female health worker asked Pavlov: "Comrade Military Doctor, the wounded is seriously injured. If there is no anesthetic, I am worried that he will not be able to get off the operating table."
Pavlov thought for a moment and said to the female health care worker: "You should have heard what Asia said just now, right? Just use coffee and intestines to relieve the pain of the wounded." As he said that, he pointed his hand at the stretcher standing next to him, "You two will help turn the wounded over so that the health care work for him."
When the stretcher heard Pavlov's inexplicable order, he showed a blank expression on his face, but they still followed the other party's orders without fail and carefully turned over the wounded.
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In order to allow the medicines on the other side to arrive as soon as possible, Golikov personally called Yelikonko and explained to him that Sokov urgently needed medicines for the wounded. As soon as Yelikonko put down the phone, he instructed the logistics minister to draw a truck of medicines from the warehouse and immediately sent a car to Mamayev hill.
Sokov originally thought that even if Golikov had taken action personally, he would have to wait a day or two before he could receive the supplementary medicine from his superiors. Unexpectedly, after calling less than two hours, the observation post outside reported that a truck coming from the other side was coming towards Mamayev Hill.
Sokov guessed that the medicine might have arrived, but for the sake of safety, he still ordered the observation post: "You send two people to greet you, find out what is installed on the car, and report to me in time."
"Comrade Commander," said Sidolin and Sokov to put down the phone, and took the initiative to say to him: "I guess the medicine has been delivered. Do you see if Major Tenev is asked to take people to wait outside? If it is a medicine, it can be delivered to the health team as soon as possible."
"Okay." Considering that if the health team cannot get the medicine in time, many wounded people may die, Sokov agreed to Sidolin's proposal: "Let Major Tnev take a company to wait outside, and when the truck carrying the medicine arrives, he will immediately send it to the health team."
"Comrade Commander," Sokov just arranged for Tenev to take the guard company out to receive medicines. Political Commissar Anisimov hurried in from outside and said excitedly: "I just came back from the health team. What do you think I saw?"
Sokov didn't know what he saw, so he asked casually: "What did you see?"
"I just went to see a Pavlov military doctor for surgery," said Anisimov hurriedly. "I heard from the health officer that he had performed more than 30 surgeries today. Usually, the military doctor was too tired to move after so many surgeries. But when I saw Pavlov military doctor, like a tireless machine, constantly performing surgery on one wounded person after another. Even the health officer asked him to rest, he refused."
After hearing Anisimov's words, Golikov smiled and said to Sokov: "Col. Sokov, I really didn't expect that the good news that you asked Comrade Asia to bring back could make your military doctor work so hard. It's really not easy."
Sokov guessed that it must be his proposal to let Pavlov serve as the director of the field hospital, which made the other party excited as if he was injected with chicken blood. However, out of his love for him, Sokov felt that some things should be stopped. After all, people are not machines. If Pavlov is really exhausted, the medical level of the health team will probably drop a long time. So he said to Anisimov: "Comrade Political Commissar, please go to the health team again. Tell Pavlov's military doctor not to be too tired. If he is exhausted, no one will perform surgery on the wounded."
Chapter completed!