Wholeheartedly Protecting People's Life and Health - Representatives of the "Most Beautiful Doctors" in 2023 Share Medical Experience and Experience in Society | China | Health
Guangming Daily reporter Jin Zhenya
August 19th is the sixth Chinese Physician's Day. The Central Propaganda Department and the National Health Commission recently jointly released the advanced deeds of the "Most Beautiful Doctors" in 2023. Nine individuals, including Ding Ying, Liu Yongsheng, Li Yanming, Zhang Yinghui, Chen Feng, Shao Zhimin, Sorang Pianduo, Kang Min, and Liang Zong'an, as well as the Chinese Foreign Aid Medical Team, were honorably selected.
At the Chinese and foreign press conference held by the State Council Information Office on August 18th regarding the "most beautiful doctors", Life Insurance Xiaoli, Deputy Director of the Information Bureau and spokesperson of the State Council Information Office, stated that medical and health workers are guardians of people's lives and health, and the main force in promoting the construction of a healthy China. Today, four individual representatives and one team representative shared their stories and experiences on the road to medicine, sharing their joy and satisfaction in successfully treating patients, and interpreting decades of unwavering commitment and perseverance. This is a vivid reflection of the wholehearted protection of people's lives and health by healthcare workers.
China's increasing emphasis on health and hygiene
Health is linked to the happiness of thousands of households and is related to the development of the country and the nation.
In recent years, China's medical industry has undergone tremendous changes, both in terms of technology and serving the people. Ding Ying, the chief physician of the Pediatric Hospital of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is still fighting on the clinical front line at the age of 73. She has personally experienced the increasing coverage of medical insurance, and experts from national and provincial hospitals regularly go to rural areas to provide medical services at county and township hospitals. The medical environment for grassroots people is getting better and better, and the medical level at the grassroots level is also improving.
Li Yanming, Director and Chief Physician of the Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department at Beijing Hospital, also expressed his feelings: "Our country is increasingly attaching importance to the health and hygiene industry, and has formulated national strategies such as Healthy China and actively responding to population aging. This has made us feel that the top-level design has formed a joint force for the whole society to promote the Healthy China strategy."
Kang Min, the director and deputy chief physician of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Institute of the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who grew up in the courtyard of the epidemic prevention station, sighed, "I have also witnessed the development of China's disease prevention and control cause. For example, during the 2009 H1N1 epidemic, our city's first level disease control center only had the ability to perform PCR nucleic acid testing. After these years of development, not only can we quickly carry out multi pathogen testing, but we can also perform gene sequencing and homology analysis of pathogens. This technological progress is very significant."
Regarding the changes in the medical and health industry in recent years, Li Junsheng, a member of the 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 20th, and 22nd batches of Chinese medical aid teams to Rwanda and the director of surgery at the Fourth Hospital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the dispatch of Chinese medical aid teams to foreign countries. With the implementation of the Healthy China strategy, foreign medical aid has also embarked on this fast track. The number of hospitals and medical facilities assisted by our country to Africa is constantly increasing, and the number of patients seeking medical treatment is increasing. Taking his basic hospital in Rwanda as an example, the number of patients he treated each year used to be only one or two thousand, but now it can reach thirty to forty thousand. Ten years ago, the students they led have now become the backbone of the department, some even serving as department heads, integrating the good management and treatment concepts of Chinese doctors into daily life.
The accessibility and fairness of medical services have significantly improved
In the view of Liu Yongsheng, a rural doctor from Sijiaoying Village, Qindong Town, Tongguan County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, in recent years, the country's investment in primary healthcare has been continuously increasing. Their village health room used to be very rudimentary, but now it is a standardized health room with "five room separation", which has laboratory tests, oxygen production, and electrocardiograms.
"In the past, when returning patients for follow-up visits, it was sunny with dirt on the street and rainy with mud on the street. There was a medicine box and an umbrella, and one side was covered with a road cover." Liu Yongsheng, who is 64 years old this year, smiled and said, "The situation is different now. The road is flat, the street lights are bright, and there are 120 people parked in front of the clinic. If someone spreads the disease, they should come to their house in 10 minutes.".
In recent years, public health work has attracted widespread attention from the whole society. "Public health doctors focus on group health issues, and the prescriptions we prescribe are actually social prescriptions for preventing diseases, promoting health, and improving the overall health level of the population." Kang Min explained that this prescription for public health actually has social equity attributes and should be accessible to everyone.
"For example, hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common intestinal infectious disease in infants and young children, and is prone to outbreaks in kindergartens. Hand washing is a very effective and economical preventive measure." Kang Min pointed out that grassroots disease control workers have carried out various "hand hygiene" services on campus, teaching children the correct hand washing methods in the form of big hands pulling small hands, greatly reducing the risk of hand, foot, and mouth disease outbreaks in kindergartens.
The public's health literacy has significantly improved
"From the perspective of the public, everyone is the first person responsible for their own health. We should actively learn, actively learn health knowledge, and improve our own health literacy." Kang Min pointed out that the public needs to continue to maintain good living habits and become practitioners of healthy living.
Li Yanming believes that some healthy and civilized behaviors have deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the public has gradually understood the concepts of big health and big hygiene. Medical personnel have also gradually shifted from being centered on disease treatment to being centered on health, and the overall health literacy of the whole population has greatly improved.
She recalled that her understanding of the importance of health education was gradually forming. Although the main responsibility of doctors is to treat and save people, the core purpose of medicine is to promote and maintain the health of the people. "Medical workers should be the main force of health education. With the guidance of national policies and the further improvement of doctors' awareness of the importance of health education, coupled with effective incentive policies, more medical personnel will join the team of health education."
In the eyes of the "most beautiful doctor", as a medical worker, one should not only have noble medical ethics, but also have the ability to continuously learn, good communication skills, superb medical skills, and strong psychological abilities. The most important thing is to always remember the original intention of one's doctor. "The trust and praise of patients are our driving force. Patient rehabilitation is the value of our healthcare workers, the greatest praise for us, and the greatest driving force for us to move forward."
