Next, Zhou Datong told Cheng Yu a story that happened more than thirty years ago.
In the late 1980s, Zhou Dadong's father was still a young doctor at a rural health center.
Of course, a doctor is actually a technical secondary school student who graduated from a health school. However, in that era, there was a serious shortage of medical personnel, and technical secondary school students in the medical field also needed five years of professional study. In that era, middle school students
Vocational school is undoubtedly a major way to change one's own destiny, so even if it is a technical secondary school, students who can pass the exam are considered to be excellent in both character and academic performance among junior high school students.
After entering technical secondary school, Zhou Dadong's father did not slack off. During school, from time to time, Zhou Dadong's grandfather would be called to help because the township health center was short of manpower.
On the one hand, it is help, but on the other hand, it is also an opportunity for training and internship. Zhou Dadong's father, Comrade Zhou Hongqi, has lived up to his father's expectations and has become a quite competent doctor before graduation.
After graduation, Zhou Hongqi originally had the opportunity to stay in a hospital in the city, but that would require at least several years of basic work before he could become a real doctor on the basis of improving his academic qualifications.
As a second-generation doctor, Zhou Hongqi's father is the vice president in charge of administration at the township health center. Although he has shallow medical skills and is a pure administrator, Zhou Hongqi is still worthy of the status of a second-generation doctor.
As a second-generation doctor, Zhou Hongqi was directly assigned from the technical secondary school back to the township health center under the arrangement of his father.
Except for a few doctors, Zhou Hongqi is even considered one of the few certified doctors in the township health center who has gone through systematic study - even though Cheng Yu actually doubted whether there were such certified doctors in a poor township in northwest China in the 1980s.
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Over the past two years, Zhou Hongqi has really established a set of medical methods in the rural health center to treat various infectious diseases that are closely related to this under the difficult environment and poor medical equipment.
According to Zhou Datong, most of them are local methods, and the treatment effect is definitely not as good as the medical methods in the city, but they are more effective and do not require high demand for medical equipment and medicinal materials.
In such an environment, Zhou Hongqi ushered in the opportunity to change his destiny.
Because he was a registered doctor after all, when the city where Zhou Hongqi was located called on young doctors to join the medical team aiding Africa, Zhou Hongqi was notified.
However, it is obvious that the township and even the county did not take this too seriously. After all, Zhou Hongqi was only a young man who had just graduated from technical secondary school two years ago and was only 21 years old. Most of the people who joined the medical team aiding Africa were from various fields.
The top students actively cultivated by the colleges will be trained as the backbone of each college after they return from Africa.
But for such an opportunity that didn't seem like an opportunity, Zhou Hongqi filled out the registration form seriously and sent it out solemnly.
In addition to the standard set of rules on the form, Zhou Hongqi also wrote a not too long letter and sent it along with the registration form.
In that letter, Zhou Hongqi described in detail the efforts she had made in the past two years, including those previous internship opportunities, to address the inadequate medical conditions and standards in poor areas.
Among them, there are a large number of cases and a large number of general methods.
No matter what method is used, whether it is foreign or native, the number of people who have recovered is solidly there.
Therefore, after this letter was sent, it really had an effect.
The establishment of medical teams to aid Africa has always been highly valued. Even though the call was mainly from their city, when it came time to decide on personnel, the Provincial Department of Health still sent a deputy director to take the lead in supervising this matter.
thing.
After receiving Zhou Hongqi's registration form and letter, the Municipal Health Bureau actually didn't take it seriously. This may be Zhou Hongqi's luck. The deputy director emphasized the need to be eclectic at the meeting.
To promote talents, we need to ensure that young doctors who are interested in helping African brothers are given practical training opportunities.
Then, the deputy director randomly picked up a few registration forms outside the list that had been screened by the Municipal Health Bureau.
Among them is Zhou Hongqi.
The registration forms of several other people were really lackluster, and indeed they did not attract the deputy director's attention. However, after seeing Zhou Hongqi's registration form, the deputy director read the letter seriously.
Speaking of which, the deputy director also knew Zhou Hongqi.
The deputy director's lover is the vice principal of the technical secondary school where Zhou Hongqi studies, and is also one of Zhou Hongqi's teachers.
She actually quite liked Zhou Hongqi. As a teacher, who wouldn't like children who study hard? And when Zhou Hongqi graduated, she felt sorry because Zhou Hongqi chose to go back to the countryside.
In her eyes, if Zhou Hongqi can stay in the city for two years, and then use his free time to upgrade his education to even a junior college, his future will go smoothly, and Zhou Hongqi will definitely become a qualified and outstanding student.
of the doctor.
Back home, she also mentioned Zhou Hongqi many times to her husband, who was the director of the Provincial Department of Health at the time.
So when the deputy director saw Zhou Hongqi's registration form, saw that he graduated from the right school and at the right time, and even his current workplace was at the rural health center that his lover mentioned, he insisted on seeing it.
Finished the letter.
Moreover, when the deputy director was young, he stayed in a poor village for many years because of his work.
Although he was not a front-line medical staff like Zhou Hongqi, he was just a young cadre under the health system, but the deputy director was very aware of the poor medical conditions in remote mountain villages.
With so many conditions, the deputy director raised the letter in his hand and said: "Although this doctor is only a technical secondary school student, he was also recognized by the city hospital. He wants to
To keep him in the city.
But he resolutely chose to return to the mountains and rural areas, and use what he learned to serve the areas and people with the worst medical conditions.
From an ideological point of view, from a political point of view, and from a consciousness point of view, this doctor can be said to be better than the vast majority of people you have selected.
Academic qualifications may be an issue, but have you carefully read the letter he wrote?
I am not a professional doctor, but after all, I have been engaged in health care work for so many years. You may not think that the homespun methods he listed are worth mentioning, but the medical conditions in Africa may even be worse than those in their mountainous areas.
By then, will you all need high-end medical equipment and a large amount of medicinal materials to treat all illnesses?
I do think that the methods of this doctor named Zhou Hongqi are the ones that can really show their potential in places like Africa.
Is it practical to use all the resources that can be found locally to serve our African brothers?"
It was the deputy director's words that caused Zhou Hongqi's materials to be put back on the list of the medical team aiding Africa.
What followed was a series of investigations on him, mainly because the indigenous methods and the number of people treated in his letters were beyond the understanding of many medical experts, and they had to confirm that these data and methods were feasible.
As a result of the investigation, they found that Zhou Hongqi was even modest.
As a result, Zhou Hongqi became the youngest and the only non-university-educated doctor in the medical team aiding Africa.
Their medical team was assisting Mozambique and had been there for three years.
Although Zhou Hongqi received the support of the deputy director, after all, he had low education and was young. His status in the medical team was not even as high as that of the nurses.
However, as the medical team deepens in Africa, they are no longer limited to staying around the cities to provide assistance, but begin to enter those tribes and villages that can be called primitive. Zhou Hongqi's indigenous methods, in group treatments again and again,
played an extremely important role.
More than a year later, even the captain of the medical team had to admit that in those areas with harsh environments and extremely backward conditions in all aspects, Zhou Hongqi was the protagonist, and he was the one who could play the savior.
After that, Zhou Hongqi became the first choice for anyone who needed medical treatment.
After all, no one knows what kind of medical treatment those patients need before seeing them, and Zhou Hongqi is the one with the highest cure rate in this land.
Three years are coming to an end, and the smiles on the faces of a group of doctors who have been tanned in Africa are becoming more and more visible.
No matter how compassionate you are, it's hard for anyone to want to stay here.
Living conditions are too bad.
During an ordinary medical visit, Zhou Hongqi ushered in the biggest change in his life.
Everything went smoothly during the medical visit. The right herbal medicine was found near the patient's village, and the patient was considered to have received the best treatment at the time.
Just because it took too long to search for the herbal medicine, Zhou Hongqi asked his colleagues to leave first and continued to treat the patient alone.
By the time it was completely over, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening.
Although the people in the village told Zhou Hongqi to just sleep in the village, Zhou Hongqi knew that the day after tomorrow the medical team should return to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, to prepare for the journey back home.
Even if he waits until tomorrow morning, I'm afraid there won't be a car to pick him up, and he will still have to walk back.
For Zhou Hongqi, who has been training in Africa for three years, a journey of more than ten kilometers is only two or three hours. Besides, he has walked this road many times, so he is a seasoned horse.
This kind of situation has happened before, so the people in the village did not force him to stay. They just brought enough water to Zhou Hongqi and watched him go on his way.
After walking for more than an hour, when Zhou Hongqi was resting next to a bush on the roadside, he heard a rustling sound coming from the bush behind him.
When he pushed aside the grass, he saw a black man about his own age, holding a two- or three-year-old child in his arms.
Seeing Zhou Hongqi, the black man also acted very nervous. In fact, this nervousness started when Zhou Hongqi was resting next to the bush.
Fortunately, Zhou Hongqi has stayed here for three years and has learned several local languages - of course, learning means being able to communicate simply with the help of gestures.
Seeing that the black man was injured and the child soon started crying, Zhou Hongqi also gestured and spoke in several languages, and finally the black man understood English.
The black man's vigilance gradually decreased. With the simple medical equipment carried by Zhou Hongqi, he believed in Zhou Hongqi's identity as a doctor.
The child's crying became more and more intense, and the black man seemed a little panicked. But Zhou Hongqi found it strange at the time. Although the black man had been holding the child, he didn't seem to care about the child particularly. He didn't treat the child like a normal parent.
Your own children regard them as treasures.
In addition, many of the injuries on the black man's body were external injuries, which made Zhou Hongqi suspect that this child might have been kidnapped by a black man.
But no matter what, he is a doctor. After examination, he found that the child had a fever. The fever must be reduced as soon as possible, otherwise in a ghost place like Africa, the chance of turning into pneumonia is almost 100%.
The black man gave the child to Zhou Hongqi and asked him to treat it. Zhou Hongqi also asked him to find some herbs and the like, but he actually complied with them one by one. He didn't even show his initial caution and was not worried at all that the child would be killed by Zhou Hongqi.
Take away the red flag.
This made Zhou Hongqi feel very confused.
Because no matter what the situation is, this black man's attitude towards the child is too weird.
If he is the child's father, or the elder brother is good at everything, he should be very nervous about the child's health.
And if he was the one who kidnapped the child, then he would never dare to hand the child over to Zhou Hongqi easily.
After all, with his current physical condition, it is almost impossible to catch up with Zhou Hongqi, who ran away for a few minutes first, even with a child.
Which kidnapper would hand over meat tickets to others so easily?
After the child's fever gradually subsided and he finally fell asleep again, Zhou Hongqi helped the black man suture and bandage the wound while hesitating whether to ask this question.
Perhaps Zhou Hongqi's attitude made the black man notice something. He took the initiative to explain that the child in his hand was indeed his son. However, although he was only twenty-four years old, he already had five wives and seven children.
He really couldn't treat every child like a treasure like ordinary people.
Zhou Hongqi simply couldn't continue talking to him, so he had to smile and ask: "It seems that you are still a chief?"
The other party's answer was arrogant and contemptuous: "My status is much higher than that of the chief."
But when Zhou Hongqi asked him about his specific identity, he still refused to say it clearly. Zhou Hongqi had to treat him as an African brother who liked to brag. After all, it was enough for a black man who could speak English to appear in such a poor place.
He felt that he was the chosen one.
"However, you know that if you hadn't happened to meet me, even if the wounds on your body would not have caused you to bleed to death, there would have been a high probability that you would have been infected with many kinds of strange inflammations, which would have made it very difficult for you.
Did you survive a week?"
After treating all the black man's wounds, he asked.
The black man was stunned for a moment, and finally lowered his head. He whispered: "Thank you for saving my life, my friend."
Zhou Hongqi would never know how much change this black man's call "my friend" would bring to him in the future.
At around two o'clock in the morning, Zhou Hongqi took the black man and the child back to the medical team's station.
It was too late and everyone else on the medical team had already gone to bed.
Zhou Hongqi found some food and drinking water, and even found some milk for the child, and arranged for them to sleep in a tent stacked with equipment.
Because he went to bed too late, Zhou Hongqi woke up a little late the next day, but after he went out, no one else from the medical team mentioned the black father and son to him.
Going to the tent where the equipment was stored, Zhou Hongqi didn't see the father and son, but he did find a text message left by the black man in the place where they slept last night.
In the letter, the black man once again expressed his gratitude to Zhou Hongqi, and said that he did not dare to stay here any longer. What he felt sorry for was that he slipped into the tent where Zhou Hongqi helped him get food last night and took away some food.
and water.
This was a small matter, and although it was a bit impolite, Zhou Hongqi didn't care.
The black man added that he did have very powerful power here, but something happened yesterday. However, he would quickly put down this turmoil, and when he regained everything, he would express his true feelings to Zhou Hongqi again.
of thanks.
At the end of the letter, the black man used the word "my friend" again.
After Zhou Hongqi read the letter, he didn't pay much attention to it. After laughing, he threw the letter aside.
After that, I worked hard with everyone, packed up all my things, and then returned to the capital of Mozambique with the medical team.
After spending four days of pure relaxation in Maputo, Zhou Hongqi returned to China.
Every member of the medical team received a commendation, but Zhou Hongqi's situation was still embarrassing.
Although he has worked hard in the past three years and made great achievements, the medical technology he has displayed is more suitable for use in poor areas. Although he may have treated the most people in Africa in the entire medical team, he relied on the local people.
We can't transfer him to a hospital in the city and let him continue to use these methods, right? City residents won't believe those earthly methods.
Zhou Hongqi was also a little frustrated, but he still took the initiative to say that he wanted to return to the original rural hospital.
Ever since, Zhou Hongqi's request was approved.
Among the entire medical team, the only one who has not received any promotion in his position is Zhou Hongqi.
On the contrary, the director of the health center promised that when Zhou Hongqi gets older and his prestige in the village becomes higher, he will definitely be appointed as the deputy director.
But what about a rural health center, even if it’s the director?
As for the black brother in Africa, the guy who called Zhou Hongqi "my friend" has long been completely forgotten by Zhou Hongqi.
Zhou Hongqi did not expect that six months after he returned to China and returned to the rural health center, he suddenly received a phone call.
The person who answered the phone couldn't understand what the other person was saying at all. Fortunately, he understood the three words "Zhou Hongqi" spoken with a strange accent and helped call Zhou Hongqi.
Zhou Hongqi answered the phone and just said hello. The other party immediately said excitedly: "Hey, my friend, do you still remember me?"
This familiar yet unfamiliar vocabulary took Zhou Hongqi a long time to react.
He laughed loudly and said, "Are you the patient I picked up on the path?"
The other party immediately became cold and arrogant: "Although you are my savior and my personally acknowledged friend, my friend, please pay attention to your wording. How could your great King possibly be picked up by you?"
Zhou Hongqi didn't care at all. He thought of the black man's bragging and continued to smile and said: "Okay, stop bragging. However, I remember that I didn't leave you any contact information. How did you find me?"
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"Zhou Hongqi, you must remember that you are talking to a real king now. Please put away your frivolous actions and words. For a king, as long as he knows your name and contact information,
, naturally some ministers will complete it for me..."
Zhou Hongqi simply couldn't continue the conversation, but a plane ticket finally convinced him of the man's identity.
In order to avoid some political problems, the name of the country is not mentioned, nor is the name of the king.
In short, this is a small country in Africa with only more than 10,000 square kilometers and a population of only one million.
And that black man was not bragging. He was one of the few kings of an autocratic monarchy in the world. The day Zhou Hongqi met him was the day when one of his more than a hundred brothers and sisters launched a coup.
