In the Rock Gold Mine, Connie is not the only pregnant woman expecting to give birth. There are also twelve other pregnant women, all of whom are expected to give birth within the next three months.
These twelve pregnant women are all family members of Chinese policemen. They are all Boers who were thrown into concentration camps by the British. They all had secret relationships with single Chinese policemen during their stay in Oak Town, but they were unable to obtain Cape Town.
Government recognition, so I came to Johannesburg, completed the marriage registration at the Johannesburg City Hall, and became a de facto legal couple.
The reason why they all stayed at the Rock Gold Mine was because there was a small clinic in the Rock Gold Mine. Although the conditions of the clinic were not very good, in the Cape and Transvaal, they could only enjoy medical treatment at the Rock Gold Mine.
take care of.
The hospitals in the Cape and Transvaal would not admit Boers.
It sounds cruel, but this is the fact. Although the British are negotiating with the Boers, they want all the Boers to die and it is impossible to provide medical services to the Boers.
Rock received the news that more than a thousand Boers had died in the concentration camps in the Transvaal alone last month.
Throughout the Second Boer War, a total of 27,927 Boers died in the concentration camps, including 1,676 elderly people, 4,177 women and 22,074 children.
This is only official data. In fact, the death toll should be higher than this.
When Rock set up a clinic in the gold mine, he never considered delivering babies to pregnant women. Therefore, the clinic in Rock Gold Mine did not have the ability to deliver babies to pregnant women. To take better care of these pregnant women, Rock had to expand the scale of the clinic.
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new clinic
In fact, it is no longer a clinic. It is much larger than a clinic and has reached the level of a hospital.
It is also the largest hospital in Johannesburg.
The hospital is located in Ziwei Town, not far from the Rock Gold Mine. It is at the foot of a mountain next to the town. There are grasslands, woods, and a small lake formed by the river bend near the hospital. Rock has all the lakes and woods.
We are planning to turn the woods into gardens and build wards near the lake. We believe that such an environment will provide the best services to patients.
The wards and clinics have just been built, and the greening work has not yet started, but the progress is not slow. The people responsible for supervising the work are Zulu policemen sent by the Johannesburg Police Department. They are not polite to the Zulu workers, and they will punch, kick and stick them if they are not satisfied.
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In order to take care of these second-generation Chinese Americans, Rock spared no expense. The new hospital has 40 beds. It can not only provide medical services to pregnant women, but miners who need hospitalization due to illness can also recuperate in the hospital.
What Roque didn't expect was that the first patient admitted to this hospital, also named "Ziwei", was not a pregnant woman or a miner, but a soldier from the expeditionary force stationed in Johannesburg.
"Captain John sent a patient yesterday morning. The unlucky guy fell off his horse and broke his arm. We performed surgery on him and connected his leg. During the operation, we used anesthetic drugs, steel plates and
Some bandages, the result of the operation is very good, the patient has been admitted to the ward, Captain John wants to settle the treatment cost with us, how should the treatment cost be calculated?" The doctor reporting to Rock is called Colin Bellamy, he is a Boer
, recommended by Dr. Jonathan Jackson in Cape Town.
The Anglo-Boer War brought serious disasters to the Boers. In the Cape Colony, both the Boers who supported the British and the Boer country would be ostracized by the entire society.
Colin Bellamy, like Jonathan Jackson, practiced medicine in Cape Town before the outbreak of the war. Due to a medical accident, Colin Bellamy's clinic was forcibly closed by the Cape Town Municipal Government. Colin Bellamy
So he was unemployed.
Rock wanted to upgrade the clinic into a hospital, which required hiring experienced doctors, so Jonathan Jackson recommended Colin Bellamy to Rock.
Rock asked Anton to conduct some investigations on Colin Bellamy, confirmed that the medical accident was not Colin Bellamy's responsibility, and took Colin Bellamy directly from Cape Town to Johannesburg.
At Locke Hospital, there are now a total of six senior doctors, and most of their situations are similar to Colin Bellamy.
"How much does this usually charge in hospitals in Cape Town?" Rock didn't know the charging standards these days.
"Sixty to seventy pounds," Colin Bellamy said honestly.
The price is not cheap. The average person these days earns only six or seventy pounds a year. When Roque was a patrolman, his annual salary after naturalizing in Cape Town was only 60 pounds. This includes overseas.
Including allowances, the annual salary of an ordinary police officer in the UK is only forty or fifty pounds.
Of course, the price is not high. After all, medical equipment is not cheap these days, and medical skills are more valuable. Sixty or seventy pounds sounds like a lot, but it depends on what it is compared with. How much is it compared with a leg?
expensive?
For the rich, no amount of money is expensive, but for the poor,
The lives of poor people are not worth so much.
It’s a time when life is like a piece of cake!
"Then we'll charge it according to this standard." Rock won't ask for more, but he won't give the Expeditionary Force Headquarters a discount either. The money must come from the Expeditionary Forces Headquarters.
"Okay, will we follow this standard in the future?" Colin Bellamy had a headache. Locke Hospital didn't even have a financial staff now, and he, the dean, was just trying to catch up.
"All according to this standard." Luo Ke confirmed that since Luo Ke Hospital has opened, it is urgent to equip the hospital with professional financial personnel. In this regard, Luo Ke has reserves in hand, and Luo Ke Gold Mine has as many as four accountants.
Except for Scarlett, all of them were sent by Ada during this period.
One thing must be emphasized, Roque is not a philanthropist, so he will not open medical resources to the society for free.
Even if the families of miners and Chinese policemen get sick and seek treatment in the hospital in the future, Locke Hospital will charge them according to normal standards.
However, Rock Gold Mine will reimburse the miners’ treatment costs, and the police station will also consider the treatment costs for the families of Chinese police officers as appropriate.
Rock would definitely not tell Colin Bellamy this part.
"How is the training for nurses going?" Rock was concerned about the nurses in the hospital.
Don't care. All the nurses in Locke Hospital are Chinese. They are the women that Liang Dingxin sent here before. These women are prepared for single Chinese policemen, but Locke doesn't know how to engage in romantic relationships. The Chinese policemen
If you like a nurse, go after her based on your ability. As long as you don't have to force her, Rock will be happy to see the results.
Not to mention, this worked very well. Before Locke Hospital was built, the proportion of Chinese policemen in Johannesburg getting sick began to rise sharply, so that Locke had to stipulate that each Chinese policeman could not take more than one day of sick leave per week.
It is estimated that this will become a "weird" rule of the Johannesburg Police Department in the future, just like the British government's rule: ordinary people's pets cannot mate with royal animals, unless the animal also comes from the royal family's property.
When Roque saw this "weird" regulation, he thought it was introduced in the Middle Ages. Later, Roque learned that this regulation was promulgated in 2006.
When he saw this regulation, Rock's heart actually collapsed, because Rock couldn't help but imagine that if it was a mouse from a commoner's home, he accidentally had some kind of irreconcilable relationship with the Queen's corgi.
After describing what happened, will the court try this civilian rat?
If there is a trial, what will the charges be?
So dirty
"The progress is going quite smoothly. They are very smart. Although there is still a bit of a language barrier now, they are learning very quickly." Colin Bellamy is not only responsible for the operation of the hospital, but also for the training of nurses. There is no other way.
Hospitals are a relatively professional field, and Rock cannot appoint a professional manager as hospital director.
The Chinese are indeed smart. Although those nurses have not received education before, and this is even the first time for them to go abroad, they receive training very quickly. If language problems are not considered, many of them are now qualified nurses.
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It’s amazing. Nurses these days don’t need to go to nursing school, nor do they need to be certified, nor do they need to learn professional skills such as intravenous injection. Before 1940, intravenous injection was only an additional treatment method for critical diseases, and only doctors had it.
Qualification implementation, nurses can only assist in the preparation of relevant items.
Therefore, a nurse's job is to take care of patients, which does not require advanced skills. What is required is a meticulous and responsible attitude. Nightingale achieved this, so she successfully fought in the Crimean War.
Reduced Britain's casualty mortality rate from a high of 42% to 2.2%.
Even those Chinese nurses can do this.
"Hire a few Boer nurses and let them take care of the wounded British soldiers." Rock didn't want to create any complications. Don't expect the moral bottom line of the British soldiers to be very high these days. Many of them are rotten people and scum. In fact,
He joined the army because he couldn't survive in society. Rock didn't want the Chinese nurses to have anything to do with the wounded British soldiers.
Don’t forget, Johannesburg is still under military control, so if something unbearable happens to the wounded British soldiers and the Chinese nurses, Roque will have nothing to do with the wounded British soldiers. No matter how much Roque does, he will not be able to do anything.
To make up for the harm done to Chinese nurses, Rock will never let Lynn's tragedy happen again.
Therefore, the best prevention is to prevent Chinese nurses from coming into contact with wounded British soldiers at all.
"Okay!" The gratitude in Colin Bellamy's eyes flashed. Now we are in the most difficult period for the Boers. Almost all British companies do not recruit Boer employees. Rock's doing this is objectively true.
Helping the Boers.
As for the Boer nurses taking care of British military patients, will anything happen to them?
In an age of precariousness, it is better not to think about these things but to survive first.
