the compassion of doctors under the “three tents”
2024-09-02
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reporting team members filmed a video in the hospital history gallery. photo by our reporter zhang hongxuour reporter zhang hongxu caigongjia
august 4th, sunny.
location: the 952nd hospital of the chinese people's liberation army
the 952nd hospital of the chinese people's liberation army (hereinafter referred to as the 952nd hospital) is located in golmud city, haixi mongolian and tibetan autonomous prefecture. walking into the hospital, the solemn national flag flutters in the morning breeze. the inpatient building is solemn and warm with white as the main color and modern lines. the whole building is like a towering mountain, standing on this plateau, and the green belts surrounding the hospital are like green ribbons, adding some vitality to this "steel fortress".
walking around the hospital compound, the reporter noticed that there were pavilions resembling tents in the northwest, southeast, and northeast corners of the inpatient department. what is the meaning? faced with doubts, the hospital staff accompanying him said that the hospital started with "three tents", which carry a deep historical memory and witness the hospital's entrepreneurial journey from scratch to large.
the 952 hospital can be traced back to the second outpatient department of the northwest military region. it was established in july 1954 and is stationed in xi'an, shaanxi. two years later, it moved from xi'an to golmud and was established as the 22nd hospital of the chinese people's liberation army. in 2018, it was adjusted and reorganized into the current 952 hospital.
at first, when the second clinic of the northwest military region moved to golmud city, three tents were pitched in the gobi desert. this was the precious "childhood" of the 952 hospital. since its inception, the hospital has been responsible for the medical support of the troops stationed along the nearly 5,000-kilometer highway from riyue mountain in the east to lenghu town in the qaidam basin in the west, dunhuang in gansu in the north, and lhasa in tibet in the south. at the same time, it has also become the "guardian" of the lives of people of all ethnic groups along the qinghai-tibet highway.
the establishment of the hospital and the arrival of military doctors made the bright red five-star and red cross shine on the vast icebergs and snow-capped mountains and gobi grasslands, allowing local people to bid farewell to the history of lack of medical care and medicine.
however, the initial tent clinics could only treat colds and fevers, and simple hemostasis, bandaging and suturing. in the dark tents, under the dim kerosene lamps, cruelty always shattered reality: during the arduous work of building and protecting the qinghai-tibet highway, a soldier covered in oil rolled over and over on the snowy road due to high-altitude cerebral edema, and eventually died in convulsions; a soldier who could only use gauze to bandage a penetrating lung wound eventually ran out of blood and his body became stiff... limited by the medical facilities and environment, military doctors were often helpless when facing patients with slightly more serious symptoms, and could only hold their hands tightly with guilt.
but the temporary difficulties did not overwhelm the ideals and beliefs of the doctors: we will definitely have a few bright wards, a clean operating table and a few suitable medical instruments! we must overcome the difficulties of preventing, treating and rescuing altitude sickness!
their firm ideals supported their ardent beliefs. they dug the earth, tamped the ground, and built dry-rammed earth barracks. they wrapped themselves in coats and moved into various medical points along the qinghai-tibet highway, which had an average altitude of more than 4,500 meters. they used their own lives to protect lives.
in the cold winter, when the military doctors arrive at a military station, the small house with a red cross on it is their home, and it is also the temple of life in the minds of the officers and soldiers. during the day, they shuttle between the parking lot, the canteen, and the dormitory, distributing high altitude sickness medicines to each soldier to prevent headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting. at night, they put on thick fur military coats, carry medicine boxes on their backs, and make rounds in the dark wooden houses that have not yet been powered. with the light of flashlights, they carefully check each soldier to prevent pulmonary edema and cerebral edema from endangering their lives in their sleep. whenever there are seriously ill soldiers, the military doctors take turns to guard them and stay up all night.
time flies. over the past 70 years, the 952 hospital, which started out as "three tents", has long bid farewell to the difficult days of lantern lighting and stove heating. it has transformed from a "tent clinic", "digout ward" and "dry-rammed earth hospital" to a class iii b garrison hospital with independent inpatient buildings, outpatient buildings, hyperbaric oxygen chambers, ct diagnostic buildings, etc., integrating medical treatment, scientific research, prevention and health care.
listening to the "past and present" of the 952 hospital, and looking at the "three tents" in front of you, they seem to be taller than they were at first sight. once, they were the "battlefield" for welcoming the wounded, where medical staff raced against death and wrote miracles of life with sweat and wisdom. today, the "three tents" have withdrawn from the stage of history, but their stories are forever engraved in the long history of the hospital's development, and the spirit they symbolize is timeless.
qinghai daily (september 2, 2024, page 4: provincial news)
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