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jimu news reporter liao shiqi

correspondents: li bei, liu shanshan, ma yaoyao

"please rest assured, i am here celebrating the holiday with my teammates and providing medical services to local patients. you should also take care of your health." on the mid-autumn festival on september 17, 35-year-old ding yi, a radiologist thousands of miles away in the southern hemisphere, had just had a video call with his parents. ding yi told reporters that this was his first mid-autumn festival in a foreign country. although he could not be reunited with his family, he felt very relieved when he thought about using his "eagle eyes" to search for clues to the lesions in black and white images to bring health and hope to local patients.

on march 27 this year, the 18th chinese (hubei) medical aid team to lesotho successfully arrived in maseru, the capital of lesotho. the motebang hospital assisted by the medical team is the second largest public hospital in lesotho. as a member of the medical aid team to africa, dr. ding yi from the imaging diagnosis department of wuhan central hospital was mentally prepared to face all difficulties before departure. as he expected, the medical equipment there was simple and there was a shortage of professional talents. ding yi became the only imaging diagnostic physician in this hospital and even in the leribe area of ​​his city.

since there are no imaging films and pacs imaging reading systems here, imaging diagnostic reports are all handwritten. many patients from other hospitals have heard that there are chinese doctors in motebang hospital and come here for treatment. most of the imaging data brought by these patients are burned on cds, and some are directly taken with mobile phones. under such limited conditions, ding yi is willing to spend more time to carefully read each film, find more "clues" of the disease from the simplest images, and provide accurate and reliable diagnostic information for the patient's subsequent treatment.

local patients trust chinese doctors very much, which makes ding yi feel that he has a heavier responsibility. a patient came from maseru, the capital of lesotho, to see a chinese doctor for treatment. it is understood that the patient fell from a height of 2.2 meters onto a high wooden box three days ago, and his right hip was injured. when the right leg was moved, he felt excruciating pain as soon as the injured part was stressed, and he could not walk. after reading the film carefully, ding yi made an accurate diagnosis: the patient's knee and hip joints were fine, and the right transverse process of the l3 vertebra was fractured. ding yi also carefully told the patient that if there is tenderness in the sacrum and coccyx, a lateral film can be taken to rule out a sacral and coccygeal fracture; if the pain is unbearable, a ct scan of the corresponding part can be considered to rule out occult fractures. ding yi's professionalism and seriousness touched the patient very much, and he expressed his deep gratitude to him before leaving.

more than four months ago, a patient who was stabbed was transferred from another hospital to the hospital for surgery. since the patient's injury was at the junction of the chest and abdomen, whether the abdominal organs herniated into the chest would directly affect the choice of surgical method. the situation was urgent at the time. ding yi rushed to read the film and diagnosed the patient with left diaphragmatic hernia. during the operation, the general surgeon found that part of the patient's stomach cavity had indeed herniated into the left chest cavity, and there were signs of ischemia and necrosis. after timely surgery, his life was successfully saved.

ding yi, an imaging doctor at wuhan central hospital, is asking a local patient about his medical history and writing a diagnosis report in english.

in order to ensure the quality and quantity of each english diagnosis report, ding yi patiently communicates with patients in english about their conditions. when encountering patients who only speak dialects, ding yi will ask department technicians to help translate in order to fully understand the patient's condition and make an accurate diagnosis. in his spare time, he will learn and familiarize himself with the english writing mode of imaging diagnosis reports, summarize common vocabulary, and has handwritten more than 700 english diagnosis reports so far.

in addition to his daily medical work, ding yi also regularly goes to remote areas with the medical team to participate in free clinics, providing free medical services to more patients and raising the health awareness of local residents. ding yi said that in fact, many diseases can be treated and have better prognosis if they are discovered early. as an imaging diagnostic doctor in africa, he hopes to do his best to help more local patients detect diseases early and contribute to the improvement of local medical technology.

(photo provided by the correspondent)

(source: jimu news)

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