People's Daily - Guizhou Channel
"Doctor Yuan, open slowly! Pay attention to safety, the mud roads in the countryside are very slippery."
"Don't worry, everyone, I am very familiar with this road, and I often come and go on weekdays."
Doctor Yuan, the villagers called the villagers, is Yuan Yucai, and he is a village doctor in Xinzhuang Village, Songlin Town.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Yuan Yucai has been responsible for home inspection of the physical health of people returning home.
On the same day, he and medical staff from Songlin Town Health Center went to households to carry out epidemic prevention and control and family doctor services, and delivered disinfection supplies to returnees.
After days of drizzle, Xinzhuang Village is shrouded in layers of mist, with high mountains and steep slopes and muddy roads. When Yuan Yucai arrived at the villagers' home, the villagers were moved and surprised.
"It's a rainy day, the road is very slippery, why are you here?"
"Are you wet? Come in and sit down."
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Every time you go, the villagers greet Yuan Yucai warmly.
"No matter the sun, rain, day and night, as long as everyone needs it, I will definitely arrive." Yuan Yucai explained.
Yuan Yucai, 59 years old this year, was engaged in rural health and epidemic prevention work in Ganchang Village, Miaolin Office, Songlin Town in 1992. In 1998, he was appointed to Xinzhuang Village to undertake rural health and epidemic prevention work. Over the past 28 years of work, he has crossed mountains and ridges, regardless of sunny weather, rainy weather, day and night, and has always worked diligently and wholeheartedly to protect the health of the villagers.
"For more than 20 years of knowing him, he has always put the health of the people first." 77-year-old villager Yuan Runxiu told the author that he often travels to villages and households to do physical health checks for everyone, or get chronic disease certificates.
The author saw that on the wall of Yuan Yucai's office, the list of targeted poverty alleviation assistance recipients in Xinzhuang Village, the registration book, the children's physical examination comparison table, the chronic disease screening result record table and other information were neatly posted.
is located in Xinzhuang Village deep in the mountains. Most villagers live on mountains with an altitude of 1,100 meters. Not only is there a long distance between households, but one or two years ago, these roads were even more difficult to climb. For 28 years, Yuan Yucai has traveled to villagers' homes to deliver medical treatment, medicine, and health services, and it is common for him to walk more than ten kilometers of mountain roads a day.
"Doctor Yuan is very responsible for his work. As long as someone in the village is sick, he will be on call him at any time!" Yuan Runxiu told the author a short story -
In 2019, villager Luo Dehua suddenly fainted on the ground, unconsciously. His family thought the treatment was ineffective and prepared to give up. After Yuan Yucai learned of the situation, he immediately called an ambulance and rushed to his house. He led the villagers to carry them on a temporary stretcher. He walked for nearly 40 minutes and escorted him to the ambulance and took him to the town hospital for treatment.
"If it weren't for Dr. Yuan, how could I have lived!" When talking about this, Luo Dehua burst into tears. "Now he often comes to my house to take my blood pressure and do tests, and often reminds me to take medicine. Our family is very grateful to him."
is not only a good doctor, but Yuan Yucai is also an enthusiastic person in the eyes of his colleagues.
Chen Zhongwen and Wang Fu, a health poverty alleviation staff member of Songlin Town Central Health Center and Xinzhuang Village, commented on Yuan Yucai like this: "Every time we go to the village to carry out health poverty alleviation, he strives to be a driver and goes with us, for fear that we will make mistakes and always be the first in the danger."
At 8:30 pm on February 2, 2020, Yuan Yucai received an emergency call from the Xinzhuang Village Committee. The four people in Zhao Xinghai's family in Zhengguang Group had fever symptoms, so he asked him to go for a checkup. Upon receiving the call, Yuan Yucai drove to his destination and reported the situation to his superiors. He also called an ambulance until the patient was sent to the hospital and went home alone at 11 pm.
Wang Lun, director of Songlin Town Central Health Center, told the author that during the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Yuan Yucai always charged for the front line and actively provided health services to the people in his daily work. "Yuan Yucai is a microcosm of rural doctors. It is an excellent village doctor like him who has guarded the first line of health defense for the grassroots people." Wang Lun said.
The author learned that 691 households and 2105 people in Xinzhuang Village have all established health records, and the signing rate of family doctors has reached 100%. During the epidemic prevention and control period, Yuan Yucai visited 10 households and 80 people to visit 10 households and observe them at home.
"I have worked in Xinzhuang Village for 28 years. My fellow villagers and I are a family. It is my duty to protect their health." Yuan Yucai said that in the future, he hopes to learn more skills and make more contributions to protecting the health of the villagers. (Zhang Xiaoya Yang Junlong)

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