beijing has sent nearly 1,000 medical teams to africa to protect lives across mountains and seas
2024-09-04
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crossing mountains and seas, great love knows no boundaries. beijing municipal health commission introduced on the 4th that, as of now, beijing has sent 57 batches of medical teams and 1,063 medical aid personnel to 12 countries and regions including guinea, trinidad and tobago, burkina faso, and vanuatu. among them, 945 medical aid personnel are to africa.
the 30th medical team to guineain june 1968, beijing sent the first batch of foreign aid medical teams to guinea. so far, 30 batches of medical teams have come to guinea to provide medical assistance.
not long ago, a 4-year-old guinean boy was hit on the head in a car accident and fell into a coma. his family rushed him to the emergency room of the china-guinea friendship hospital for emergency treatment. the child was in extremely critical condition and was in danger of death at any time. craniotomy was the only option to save the child's life. huang qing, a neurosurgeon at beijing anzhen hospital and a member of the 30th medical aid team to guinea, immediately launched an emergency plan for acute trauma treatment with local doctors. the operation lasted more than 3 hours and ended successfully. with the joint treatment of doctors from china and guinea, the child was out of danger.
"we have cooperated with guinean doctors many times to complete the rescue and treatment of critically ill patients." song xiantao, leader of the 30th medical aid team to guinea, said that from september last year to june this year, the medical team performed 236 operations, including 26 operations such as emergency coronary angiography and emergency coronary stent surgery, which were performed for the first time in guinea, involving multiple disciplines such as cardiology, urology, general surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery and orthopedics. "as doctors, we are pleased to be able to protect the lives and health of local patients."
it is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. the 30th batch of medical aid to guinea also taught local doctors a number of advanced technologies such as emergency cardiovascular and cerebrovascular interventional surgery, laparoscopic gastric perforation repair surgery, and appendectomy, and opened a green channel for acute cardiovascular and cerebrovascular treatment in the local area. in july this year, with the help of the medical team, the china-guinea friendship hospital established an integrated cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diagnosis and treatment center, a peripheral cardiovascular and cerebrovascular interventional diagnosis and treatment center, and a vascular surgery center.
the local power outage, the 30th medical aid team to guinea performed surgery on the patient with a flashlightthis is a true reflection of the spirit of the chinese medical aid teams: "fearless of hardship, willing to make sacrifices, saving lives and healing the wounded, and boundless love." over the past 56 years, several generations of "beijing doctors" have extended a helping hand, allowing medical services to flow like sweet springs to where they are needed.
according to the municipal health commission, by the end of last year, the city's foreign aid medical teams had treated about 830,000 patients, rescued about 169,000 critically ill patients, and completed about 209,000 operations. in guinea and other countries, they carried out microscopic lumbar interbody fusion and minimally invasive anterior cervical discectomy, setting many "firsts" in local medical history and filling many gaps in medical technology.
at the same time, the city took a multi-pronged approach to carry out the neurological medicine center project, the telemedicine platform project, the hemodialysis center project, the guinean medical personnel training project in china, the guinea infectious disease monitoring and capacity improvement project, and the cooperative development evaluation project, innovated cooperation models and working mechanisms, and successfully completed the china-africa friendship hospital construction pilot project.
at present, the china-guinea friendship hospital has initially become an influential medical center in guinea and even in west africa, realizing the vision proposed by the guinean side that "professional treatments such as neurology, critical care and trauma will not be available outside guinea."
a relevant person in charge of the municipal health commission said that the city's foreign aid medical teams will continue to innovate cooperation models and promote the "going out" of domestic medicines and equipment; actively expand the connotation of foreign aid medical work and help foreign aid medical teams play a better role, "such as through 'small and beautiful' project support, 'point-to-point' to make up for the shortcomings of china-guinea friendly hospitals"; develop telemedicine and build a long-term platform for china-guinea health cooperation.
