Dongguan Medical Aid to Xinjiang | Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital Volunteer Medical Team Continuously Increases Eye Health for the People in Tu City

Those who are ambitious and harmonious do not think far from mountains and seas.

Recently, the medical team of the "Dongguan City Aid Xinjiang Restoration Project" arrived in Tumushuk City, the Third Division, which is part of the "Guangdong New Guangming Tour" cataract screening and prevention action carefully deployed by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government in a new round of medical aid to Xinjiang, focusing on the immediate benefits and widespread difficulties and expectations of the masses, so that employees of all ethnic groups can enjoy visible and tangible health benefits at their doorstep.

This time, Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital Affiliated to Jinan University once again sent a medical team with strong medical resources, which is composed of 4 medical staff, and Liu Fei, the general president of Aier Ophthalmology Dongguan Region, serves as the captain, focusing on the veterans of the Corps and the people in need to carry out vision restoration surgery for no less than 200 cataract patients.

Picture | Qu Hongqi, deputy commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Provincial Counterpart Support Xinjiang Work Forward Headquarters and captain of the Third Division Task Force of the Garrison, Ye Songgen, deputy captain of the Guangdong Aid Xinjiang Task Force in Xinjiang, Liang Jieqiu, leader of the Xinjiang Aid Task Force, and other leaders expressed their condolences to the medical team members of the Xinjiang Aid Team

The love of Guan medicine is as deep as the sea, and the benevolence shines on the mountains and rivers

"It's coming, it's coming! The Guangdong doctor has arrived!" On August 26, the first day of the Dongguan medical team to aid Xinjiang to carry out vision restoration surgery, a long queue formed in the corridor of the Tumshuk General Hospital of the Third Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. There are those in the team who successfully restored their eyesight with the help of the medical team in October last year, and there are also patients with difficult eye diseases who came to "see famous doctors" after hearing the news. ”

In the clinic, Liu Fei, captain of the Dongguan medical team and general director of Aier Ophthalmology Dongguan Region, examined patients through slit lamps. 83-year-old Grandma Zhou and her wife have been plagued by cataracts for a long time, and they have been looking for medical treatment for many years to no avail.

Figure | Liu Fei, captain of the Dongguan medical team and general director of Aier Ophthalmology Dongguan Region, examined and operated on the patient

Finally, the experts are looking forward to it

On the morning of August 27, the Dongguan Restoration Project team was removing gauze, measuring vision and intraocular pressure for patients who had had cataract surgery the day before, and carefully reminding them of postoperative precautions. When they saw the light again, their faces were full of joy, and the room was filled with words of gratitude and laughter from "Yaksi" (Uyghur for good).

The patient, Lu Lao, is 83 years old this year and is a veteran who went to Xinjiang in 1963 and witnessed the establishment of the Third Division Tumushuk City. He has been suffering from cataracts for many years and has been close to blindness, and his condition is more complicated, and after Dean Liu Fei performed surgery on his left eye last year, he has now maintained a vision of 0.8, and this time he waited for Dean Liu Fei to do second-eye surgery. The moment he lifted the gauze after the operation, he held Dean Liu Fei's hands and expressed his gratitude, "In the past two years, because of your arrival, my life has ushered in light again, and now I can read newspapers and books, and watch TV more clearly." Thank you to the experts in Dongguan for giving us free surgery, and I will always remember your good deeds in my heart. ”

As a veteran, the 83-year-old Lu Lao is still in high spirits, and after the operation, he lifted the gauze for a moment and held the hands of the Dongguan doctor to express his gratitude

"If you are seriously ill, you can only run to Kashgar City" and "difficulty in seeking medical treatment" have always plagued the local people. In the first half of the year, the General Hospital of the Third Division and the Tunchang Hospital regularly carried out free clinic screening activities in batches to various regiments, elderly care institutions and other places, and collected the masses who met the conditions for surgery.

Picture: The Uyghur old man bought Haiti, 0.15 before the operation, and immediately praised Dean Liu Fei when he opened the gauze after the operation

There are many complex and difficult patients

In last year's aid to Xinjiang, Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital has performed vision restoration surgery for 200 local eye disease patients, and signed the "Guantu Ophthalmology Specialist Alliance" with the General Hospital of the Third Division to carry out a three-year aid to Xinjiang to restore vision. After the reputation of "Dongguan President Liu" spread in Tu City, more patients with complex and difficult eye diseases came to admire it, "This operation is much more difficult to do than in 2018 and 2023, and nearly half of the cataract cases are grade 4 and 5 nucleus, and some are even accompanied by complications such as glaucoma and fundus disease." Dean Liu Fei said.

Mr. Wei, 59, who is in the advanced stage of glaucoma, has been using anti-glaucoma eye drops for more than 30 years, often feeling eye swelling and headache, accompanied by vision loss, and has no choice but to run north to find medical treatment, but due to long-term use of anti-glaucoma drugs caused corneal endothelial damage, the operation is very difficult, and it has not been effectively treated so far. This time he brought a thick stack of cases, and Dean Liu Fei customized the surgical plan for him, and successfully completed the operation on the afternoon of the 29th, controlling the development of the disease and improving his vision and quality of life.

Figure | Patients with advanced glaucoma sought medical treatment for many years due to the difficulty of surgery, and Dean Liu Fei customized the surgical plan for them and successfully completed the operation on the afternoon of the 29th

There are many people in need

Kurban of the 53rd Regiment of the Third Agricultural Division is a father of four children who support his family by farming on weekdays. Last year, the medical team diagnosed cataract with a fifth-grade nucleus in both eyes, and the right eye surgery was able to regain his sight, because the cataract was "overcooked", Dean Liu Fei told him to hurry up with surgery on his left eye within three months, and due to the financial burden, he never underwent surgery on his second eye. When Dean Liu Fei saw Kurban again, his left eye only had "manual" vision and could hardly see normally. Recently, after successfully undergoing surgery, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his left eye could also see the scene in front of him.

The Dongguan Restoration Project Team is expected to complete 100 vision restoration surgeries this week, and a large number of surgeries will be completed in a limited time, coupled with the increase in the complexity of the cases compared with before, which will bring certain challenges to the medical team, and they need to work continuously for more than 12 hours a day. On the afternoon of the 27th, Tian Rui, a nurse in the operating room, had symptoms of hypoglycemia due to a long time on the stage, and continued to work after hastily replenishing a bottle of high sugar during the operation. As the chief surgeon, Dean Liu Fei is responsible for screening, surgery, review, teaching and other work seamlessly, and basically does not end the day's work until 11 p.m. every day.

Figure | Luo Yingdong, a cataract doctor and director of the nursing department of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital, members of the Xinjiang medical team, and Wu Yanling, director of the nursing department, are busy carrying out the work of admitting patients

In the face of the endless stream of border patients who came for consultation and follow-up, President Liu Fei's words were warm and firm: "We will go all out to let more patients see the light again, and this trust from the border people is also illuminating our way forward." ”

Summer flowers are brilliant in southern Xinjiang, and autumn fruits are fruitful and gratifying

Tumshuk has a population of 310,000, including more than 2,000 cataract patients, but only three ophthalmologists. Wang Dengfeng, director of the Department of Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology of Shishi General Hospital, expressed his gratitude and expectations for the Dongguan medical team aiding Xinjiang: "As the country's top ophthalmologist, President Liu has brought international advanced diagnosis and treatment technology, which has greatly benefited the people under the jurisdiction of our three divisions, especially complex and difficult patients. ”

Dongguan's aid to Xinjiang not only made the eye disease patients in Tushi feel the warmth of the party and the government, bringing new hope to their lives, but also strengthened the "hematopoietic" assistance to Shishi General Hospital, such as specially arranging exchange links, optimizing the surgical process, improving the standardization and safety of surgery, and other theories and practices, helping the discipline construction of local hospitals and improving the "hematopoietic" ability.

Figure | Dean Liu Fei carried out case discussion and surgical teaching

This is the third time that President Liu Fei has led a team to Tushi to carry out aid to Xinjiang, and before leaving, he lined up several important tasks and set off with the original intention of doing something practical for the people of the frontier, he said, "Going to Xinjiang to support is the top priority, and every patient's successful recovery of vision will become our unremitting motivation, driving us to cross thousands of mountains and rivers, send light to their world, and be the most determined guardian of light!" ”

The mission is to travel thousands of miles on the shoulders, and great love is like a song to the neighbors. The glory of the "Ancient Silk Road" and the responsibility of the "mission of the new era" are intertwined here, blooming autumn fruits and summer flowers. The Aier Ophthalmology Medical Team will continue to sow the seeds of light on this land and firmly practice the mission of protecting the light of the frontier.

The list of the third batch of medical teams aiding Xinjiang by Aier Ophthalmology

Liu Fei, member of the Communist Party of China, president of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital

Luo Yingdong is a cataract doctor at Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital

Wu Yanling, member of the Communist Party of China, director of the nursing department of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital

Tian Rui is a nurse in the operating room of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital