Episode 234 Wang Huanyun： Be the guardian of the villagers

There is a kind of power that makes people move, a kind of great love that makes people admire, and a kind of emotion that makes people move. Wang Huanyun, 55, is a rural doctor at the clinic of Chenjiapu Village, Yishui Town, Zhushan County, and the principal of the village’s "warm home" for AIDS prevention and treatment. He is rooted in the countryside and silently dedicated on the front line. He has treated AIDS patients in remote mountain villages. He is the "most beautiful rural doctor" and the "most beautiful Communist Party member in Shiyan City in 2016". He spreads positive energy and shows the demeanor of workers in the new era.

In 2001, Wang Huanyun discovered the first case of HIV infection in Zhushan County. Since then, Wang Huanyun has held dual positions, not only responsible for the basic medical work of the whole village, but also obligated to undertake the prevention and treatment of 30 patients infected with AIDS due to unclean blood in five nearby villages, Chenjiapu, Tianqiao, Hejiawan, Shaojiagou, and Overflow Street. For 14 years, he has used responsibility and care to support a blue sky for AIDS patients, enabling AIDS patients in remote mountain villages to be treated, and the families of many AIDS patients to receive help.

In 1976, Wang Huanyun, who graduated from high school, became a private teacher. The reality that the local villagers had become impoverished due to illness deeply hurt him, so he decided to switch to medicine, and from then on, he began his career as a village doctor. One day, a man in his 40s came to the clinic with a festering skin and a high fever. Wang Huanyun treated his cough, asthma, chest pain and other symptoms for two days, but it did not improve. The clinic could not diagnose the man’s illness, so the patient was transferred to the county hospital.

The attentive Wang Huanyun suspected that the "strange disease" was likely AIDS based on the relevant knowledge he learned from newspapers and television. He found through investigation that farmers from several nearby villages had sold blood in Henan, and he immediately reported the situation to the town health center. After hearing the news, the county CDC took a series of measures to confirm that the patient had AIDS. In the subsequent census organized by the county CDC, multiple cases of AIDS patients were found one after another.

As we all know, AIDS is a very harmful infectious disease, and the world talks about AIDS differently. When Wang Huanyun gave contact treatment to AIDS patients, he did not wear gloves, masks, or any self-protective equipment. This is not in line with medical regulations! Does Wang Huanyun not understand the basic medical knowledge that healthcare workers should "avoid occupational exposure" during the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases and other diseases?

In fact, Wang Huanyun was thinking from the patient’s point of view. He knew that AIDS patients themselves had low self-esteem, were withdrawn, and were psychologically fragile. They could not accept people’s discrimination and alienation, and they longed for everyone’s understanding and closeness.

Chenjiapu village and a river across the Hejiawan village, living in the oldest, named Xiang Lan (pseudonym) of AIDS patients, she is 60 years old this year, in 2004 was found to be infected with AIDS. Under Wang Huanyun’s careful treatment, her husband and younger generation are in good health. In 2006, Wang Huanyun from our country’s AIDS prevention and control expert Professor Gui Xien won AIDS family self-help production funds support, Xiang Lan family received 5000 yuan of cattle support funds. The family worked together to raise cattle, quickly out of the predicament of life.

In the farmyard less than 10 meters away from Wang Huanyun’s house, there is an AIDS patient named Chunli (a pseudonym). In early 2012, Chunli unexpectedly became pregnant with a pair of twins. After being persuaded by Wang Huanyun, she planned to have an abortion surgery, but she went to five hospitals and was rejected. Chunli returned to Chenjiapu Village to ask Wang Huanyun for help, preparing to give birth to the twins. Wang Huanyun adopts the treatment method of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and constantly implements mother-to-child blocking treatment for her to prevent the fetus from being infected.

During Chunli’s pregnancy, in order to ensure the safety of the fetus, Wang Huanyun would take her to have a maternity check-up every month. Half a year later, the due date was approaching, and Chunli was very anxious because the local hospital did not have the conditions to receive such special births. Wang Huanyun rushed to Shiyan City, nearly 200 kilometers away, and contacted a hospital for Chunli. On October 31, 2012, the twin sisters were finally born. In order to keep the twins growing up healthily, Wang Huanyun took good care of them, monitored them in a timely manner, and regularly conducted comprehensive physical examinations for them. At present, the physical examination indicators of the twins who are nearly 2 years old are normal.

There is still no cure for AIDS, and there is no effective vaccine for prevention. In a small village deep in the mountains, Wang Huanyun is the hope of the villagers with chronic diseases. Wang Huanyun has been with patients for more than ten years, and he knows that the meaning of companionship is far greater than the meaning of treatment. Wang Huanyun, who has been a village doctor for so many years, is good at pulse recognition, acupuncture, massage, and Chinese herbal medicine. Over the years, it is impossible to count how many times he has relieved the pain of the villagers. The most touching thing is his care for AIDS patients.

"Ready to sacrifice his life for the party and the people at any time", for this oath, Wang Huanyun, who has 16 years of party experience, fought on the front line, rooted in the grassroots, happy with hardship, and dedicated himself to work. He is an ordinary person around us, but he has built a precious spiritual home with silent perseverance. He has no lofty words, but he is heart-to-heart with patients. Let us say to this "most beautiful Communist Party member": Thank you!