Chengdu's "one legged village doctor": walking out of the one hundred thousand mile walking path with crutches
Sichuan Online - Huaxi metropolis newspaper
pictured in August 2nd, Chen Yonggen, a village doctor, was walking on the road of Honghua Village Mountain, Longquanyi.
a white gown, a crutch and a medicine box. This is the most familiar and warmest figure among the villagers in Honghua village, Shan Quan Town, Longquanyi District, Chengdu. He is Chen Yonggen, the doctor of the Honghua village health center. Over the past 30 years, Chen Yonggen has been back and forth on the rugged mountain road to see a doctor for the villagers. The visiting road is more than one hundred thousand li. On the 2 day of
8, Chen Yonggen, 54 years old, set out on his medicine chest. Since the village built a cement road, love enterprises for him to install a prosthesis, Chen Yonggen's convenient way to visit a lot. How long is this mountain road going through countless times? Chen Yonggen did not know, "go to the time when you can't walk."
crutch walking down the mountain road has almost dropped down the hill
Chen Yonggen is the only doctor in the village health station. In the morning of August 2nd, when the reporter came to Honghua village, he was preparing to go to the four group. There was no difference between him and usual on Sunday.
carrying a medicine box on the right shoulder and holding a crutch on the left arm, Chen Yonggen's costume has hardly changed for thirty years, but his hair has turned from black to silver white.
from the health station to the four group, the distance of three miles, the high temperature of more than 30 degrees Celsius, Chen Yonggen limped along and sweat on his forehead. Although last year on the prosthetic, can be as independent as normal people walk, every time to walk the mountain road, Chen Yonggen is still used to "solo", "down the slope, the feet and the ground can not be good fit, but on leaning on crutches."
leads to four groups of families at the foot of the mountain. The road is a muddy road with a slope of more than 45 degrees. Chen Yonggen moves with care on his crutches. The soil beneath his feet slipped down, and he quickly pushed the crutches back, trying to stabilize his body. "No, it's all right." The reporter came forward to help him, and he smiled with a calm smile.
a night in February last year, the 11 groups of Fu Chengfang old man burst the emphysema, after receiving the phone, Chen Yong root was not able to snowing in the sky, grabbed the torch and rushed to the old man's house. Halfway down, he carelessly stumble and fall, next to it is a deep ravine. Luckily, a stump blocked him.
average daily line ten miles 30 years past one hundred thousand li
khonghua village is located in a mountain gully in the Longquan mountain, within 6 square kilometers, scattered more than 600 villagers. The 5 groups that are the furthest away from the health station have to take more than 10 Li mountain road to get there.
2008 ago, the health station was not yet established. When the villagers called, whether they were eating or resting, Chen Yonggen had to call out. At that time, almost every day he had to walk over the mountains with crutches and grind his thick calluses on his left palm.
over the past thirty years, how many mountain passes have passed, but Chen Yonggen has not counted it, but the village secretary Zhao Zhenming and the villagers saw it in their eyes. "On average, it takes ten miles a day, and in the past 30 years, there has been no more than one hundred thousand miles of mountain roads." Zhao Zhenming said.
in recent years, Chen Yonggen's mud road has become a smooth cement road, more and more villagers have motorcycles, cars, and with the convenience of traffic, the time he visits less and less. However, the limp figure often appears on the mountain road. "Some old people are not very convenient in their actions. How can they be allowed to come to me?"
walk ten li mountain road to visit the patient, Chen Yonggen said to walk, but only three miles from the home of the health center, but he was almost only the spring festival only to go back, "what if someone comes to see a doctor?"
94 year old man in Chen An county, 94 years old, who is the oldest person in Haruki. Every once in a while, Chen Yonggen would check his blood pressure and give him medicine. On the way to go, it's all downhill. It's almost half an hour's walk. When it comes back, it will take nearly two hours. In Honghua village, Chen An county has 151 other "focus" objects. They are elderly people suffering from chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Chen Yonggen did not know what their situation was like without turning over their medical records.
for some family difficult old people, Chen Yonggen often deductions medical expenses for them. "It's not easy for villagers to earn money." When Chen Yonggen was two years old, he suffered from osteomyelitis. His father took him everywhere to seek medical treatment and spent almost all his family savings. This experience made him lose his left leg and let him know that villagers are not easy to see a doctor.
although the patient is very generous, brother Chen Yongjin is very clear that his brother actually has only three hundred or four hundred yuan a month. Even so, Chen Yonggen politely refused many invitations from a private hospital in Longquanyi. He said, "there is a root in my name. I want to root here forever."
never thought he would go on
growing up in red flower village before retiring, and when he was 20, Chen Yonggen, who graduated from Longquan health school, chose to go back home and become a country doctor. Before that, there were no doctors in Honghua village. The villagers had to see a doctor. They had to take more than 10 Li mountain road to the mountain spring town. Xie Guozhen,
74 old man, suffers from hypertension and diabetes. She lives opposite to the health station and usually finds Chen Yonggen when she is uncomfortable. "Whenever you find Dr. Chen, he will never shirk it." Xie Guozhen said that if you see Chen Yonggen, you will feel relieved.
Haruki more than 1500 villagers, many of them share the same feeling with Xie Guozhen. After 34 years of practicing medicine, Chen Yonggen and the villagers are not just the relationship between doctors and patients, they are more like friends.
before using aluminum alloy crutches, Chen Yonggen used his own branches to make crutches. Walking on a mountain road every day, a walking stick will be broken in one year. Because of the inconvenience of action, the villagers will help him to cut branches. When riding a bike or driving a car, Chen Yonggen will always take the initiative to see him.
Chen Yonggen said he never thought of when to retire, or at least until other doctors took over. "So many people want to see a doctor, no doctor can do it." Looking at the mountain ahead, Chen Yonggen pulled the medicine box onto his shoulder and pulled it on.