The names of Chinese doctors working with the 33rd batch of the Chinese medical team in Tanzania's Zanzibar are leaving an indelible mark on the twin islands of Unguja and Pemba by performing complicated surgeries and saving the lives of local patients.
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The names of Chinese doctors
working with the 33rd batch of the Chinese medical team in Tanzania's Zanzibar
are leaving an indelible mark on the twin islands of Unguja and Pemba by
performing complicated surgeries and saving lives of local patients.
With limited medical resources, the Chinese doctors, all from East
China's Jiangsu Province, are bringing broad smiles to local patients who are
desperate for a decent life.
In the early morning of Oct. 11, Gao Lingling, a gynecologist, received
a distress call from a local gynecologist on duty at the Mnazi Mmoja Hospital
in Unguja, informing her that a patient who had undergone an abdominal
hysterectomy five days earlier suddenly had a full-layer abdominal incision
with an exposed bowel.
Gao rushed to the hospital's gynecological ward, where she examined the
patient and found that the abdominal incision of the patient was infected, purulent
and split while her small intestine was exposed and swelling.
In preparation for the emergency surgery, the local doctor on duty
informed Gao that the patient was also infected with HIV. Together with Jiang
Guoqing, the leader of the Chinese medical team and a general surgery expert,
they completed the operation.
Jiang continued to help complete the operation on the HIV-infected
patient, even though he had a bruised finger on his right hand from cleaning
the medical team's residence some time ago. It was the first time Gao and Jiang
had operated on an HIV-infected patient.
Faced with numerous patients, complex disease types, and a serious lack
of equipment and drugs, members of the Chinese medical team are making full use
of the existing conditions to develop feasible and effective surgical plans so
that a variety of operations can be carried out smoothly, relieving nearly 100
patients suffering from various ailments in about a month since their arrival
in September.
Wei Changqun is the only doctor of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on
the team, and his arrival also makes the local people feel the charm of TCM.
Wei undertakes daily outpatient work in the acupuncture department, mainly
treating neck, shoulder, waist, and leg pain, sequelae of stroke, and other
diseases with acupuncture. At present, the outpatient department of acupuncture
and moxibustion is still relatively busy, with a daily outpatient number of
more than 40.
Li Guang, deputy head of the medical team, said he found that there were
a lot of thyroid patients coming to the clinic, which may have a lot to do with
the local eating habits. Li, along with his colleagues, has successfully
completed a thyroid surgery recently.
"The patient recovered well without any complications. He was grateful
to be able to complete the surgery on his doorstep. Local doctors were amazed
at Li's skills," said a nursing officer at the Abdalla Mzee Hospital on
Pemba Island.
On Oct. 4, Wu Wei, another doctor, completed the first laparoscopic
partial hepatectomy surgery.
The patient, a 60-year-old woman, was found to have a huge cyst in the
liver. Wu said surgery was the only way to cure the disease, but the Abdalla
Mzee Hospital had never received related cases before. With solid and exquisite
clinical surgical skills, the team completed the operation. The patient
recovered well after surgery and was discharged successfully a week later.
Raya, the daughter of the patient, expressed her great gratitude to Wu,
thanking the Chinese doctors for using minimally invasive technology to relieve
her mother's pain for many years.
"With the unremitting efforts of the successive members of the Chinese medical teams, it will bring health and happiness to more and more local people, and further promote the progress and development of medical services in Zanzibar," said Raya, who is also a pediatrician at the Abdalla Mzee Hospital.
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