The National Day is approaching, He Mingquan of Pingting Village, Hongshuihe Town, Luodian County, Qiannan Prefecture, in addition to daily consultation and delivery, is also busy with another job - pasting the latest health knowledge information on the health promotion board in the village.
He Mingquan
Pingting Village is located at the junction of Luodian, Wangmo and Tian'e and Leye counties in Guizhou, and is more than 60 kilometers away from Luodian County, with a drive of about 2 hours and 30 minutes. Unless it is a special circumstance, He Mingquan rarely goes to the county seat, and holidays are no exception.
He Mingquan popularized health knowledge for the villagers at night
The radius of his life spreads from Pingting Village to more than 30 villages in two provinces and four counties in the surrounding areas, and the fixed work mode has almost formed a "biological clock". At half past six in the morning, he carried the medicine box on his back and began to visit the villages and villages to deliver medicines, injections, and infusions to the elderly and children who were inconvenient to go out. At noon, he rushed back to the infirmary and waited for nearby villagers to come to see a doctor. When he closed at six or seven o'clock in the evening and left work, he was still in a "standby" state, and as soon as the phone rang, he picked up the first aid kit and hurried out. For the past 40 years, almost every day, the villagers have been inseparable from him, and he has never left the villagers.
Ho began his medical career in 1982. At that time, Pingting Village was not yet accessible and was separated from Guangxi by two rivers, which could be described as the "boundary of the border", and many villagers did not have basic medical knowledge, and it was very difficult to seek medical advice. He Mingquan, who has seen many villagers suffering from illness but no way to seek medical treatment since he was a child, has graduated from Luodian Health School at this time and ended his internship, he did not choose to go out of the mountains to seek a better life, but resolutely made a decision to return to his hometown to become a village doctor.
Ho Mingquan's first important job after becoming a village doctor was to popularize vaccine knowledge. This is not an easy task, and after his daily consultation, he carries a bulging backpack full of vaccines, and hurries up to go door-to-door to persuade children to vaccinate. With He Mingquan's sincerity and persistence, many villagers gradually changed their outdated concepts, and their trust and dependence on He Mingquan also increased day by day.
He Mingquan spends his evening time giving health talks to villagers
In the former "border", not only Pingting Village lacked medical treatment, but many villages in Wangmo County in Guizhou, Tian'e County and Leye County in Guangxi Province were also in urgent need of a professional doctor. He Mingquan is not only skilled in medicine, but also very benevolent, and in the face of poor villagers, he usually does not charge a few dimes or a few yuan for medicine. As the fame gradually spread outside the village, people from the surrounding villages came one after another, and He Mingquan patiently received them one by one. At the beginning of 2000, he began a nine-year squatting medical treatment on the banks of the Hongshui River, which provided great convenience for the people in the surrounding villages and solved the problem of difficult and expensive medical treatment for the villagers in many surrounding villages.
After decades of work in Pingting Village, He Mingquan won the trust and respect of the villagers, and was elected as the director of the village committee, and later elected as the secretary of the village party branch. Although he is very busy practicing medicine, He Mingquan does not want to live up to the trust of the villagers, even if he is busy, he also wants to do more for everyone. He Mingquan knew that backward transportation was the root cause of the locals' closed-mindedness and poor life, so in the years when he was the director of the village committee, he took the villagers to work and work to dig the village roads, raise funds to collect electricity, and build schools, which greatly improved the living environment in the village.
During his tenure as secretary of the village party branch, he often led party members and cadres to conscientiously study theories and dialectically and scientifically resolve contradictions and disputes in the daily lives of villagers. However, he took the initiative to resign after only 2 years as secretary of the village party branch. "It's too busy. There are still many capable people in the village cadres who can do it, and I am the only doctor. After completing important work such as road construction, He Mingquan gradually felt powerless, and he once again made a life choice - to concentrate on becoming a village doctor.
He Mingquan's motorcycle accompanied him to the village
In Ho Mingquan's medical career, there are many stories of racing against death. In 2013, three young people were involved in a car accident on a mountain road, and their motorcycles flew off an 80-meter cliff and fell to pieces, and two of the girls were also seriously injured and were found in a state of anger. He Mingquan, who received the call for help, arrived as soon as possible, stopped the bleeding, bandaged, rescued, and a series of rescue measures won the opportunity to save the lives of the two girls.
It is precisely because it is related to people's health and even life that for many years, He Mingquan's mobile phone has almost always been turned on 24 hours a day, and with just one phone call, he can always try his best to come to patients as quickly as possible. Year after year, the villagers of Pingting Village have regarded He Mingquan as the "guardian saint" of health, and their understanding of medical and health knowledge has also been greatly improved by He Mingquan's tireless popularization. He Mingquan knows that the medical and health work in rural areas is not only about doctors conscientiously treating diseases and saving people, but also about improving the public's health awareness and medical knowledge......
"From 1982 to the present, I have long been accustomed to it, and it is my responsibility to save lives and promote the humanitarian spirit. The pain of the patients is my pain, they need me, and I can't hurt their feelings. "For more than 40 years, He Mingquan has taken deeper roots in this land where he was born and raised, like a big tree clinging to this land tightly, growing lush branches and leaves that shelter the locals." Top Ten Outstanding Young Farmers", "National Excellent Rural Doctors", "Guizhou Provincial Model Workers", on the "Guizhou Good People List", and became the 6th "Qiannan Pride" Person of the Year...... In He Mingquan's view, these honors are an affirmation of him, and a white coat on his body is the meaning of sticking to the "border area".
Text/Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Peng Fangrong
Editor/Wei Qian
Second Instance/Li Bing
Third Trial/Li Ying