Ningyuan Medical College has had many international students. Most of these people are students from third world countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Most of them come from ordinary families in their home countries, and some may be slightly better off than ordinary families. Such family conditions make it unlikely that they will apply for medical school in European and American countries - studying medicine at universities in European and American countries is basically equivalent to burning money. And third-world international students, who have some problems with food and clothing, cannot afford this level of expenses.

At this time, the advantages of Chinese medical schools are revealed. The quality of teaching is not bad, and some schools are even comparable to European and American universities. Not to mention that the level of consumption of studying abroad is much lower than that of European cities, and there are even a considerable amount of official scholarships. If the grades are good, not only can you study medicine without spending a penny, but if you usually save a little, you can even send some money to your hometown to subsidize your family. With such good conditions, it will naturally attract many international students.

China's foreign aid policy began to change in the fifties and sixties, from the previous gratuitous aid to low-interest or even interest-free loans, as well as technical assistance. Accepting medical students from third world countries is also a type of technical assistance.

Ningyuan Medical College has been accepting foreign students since the sixties of the last century. Among them, students from traditional African friendly countries such as Zambia, Tanzania, and Nigeria are the majority. When Lao Liu was still in school, he met several international students from Tanzania, and later taught a lot of them by himself when he was teaching. Then again, this group of dark-skinned students is actually quite difficult. Although compulsory education in Tanzania is the same as in China, the low employment rate for Tanzanians means that most of them need to start their livelihood early. Among these people who are destined to be "unemployed after graduation", only the best ones can be invited by Chinese medical schools to travel thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean and Indochina Peninsula to study in China.

Tanzania has a universal free healthcare system. However, the level of medical care is extremely poor, and there is a serious shortage of medicines, and many drugs necessary to treat diseases even require patients to go to private pharmacies to buy them. The medical force of the whole of Tanzania is basically concentrated in the Moxibili National Hospital in the capital. The level of medical care at the grassroots level is basically equal to that of free giving. On average, there is only one doctor for every 10,000 people – China's medical resources are so tight, there are still 146 doctors per 10,000 people.

The combination of these conditions leads to a very interesting phenomenon. Liu Tangchun has taught more than 20 Tanzanian doctors. Except for three of them, who later settled in other countries, the remaining dozen or so people were all concentrated in Dar es Salaam, the former capital of Tanzania. To be precise, it's concentrated in the emergency department of the Moxybilli National Hospital – hospitals in other cities don't have an emergency department at all.

As for other students who came to Ningyuan Medical College to study traditional Chinese medicine, they went down to the grassroots level. With acupuncture herbs and gua sha cupping, Tanzania's fragile primary healthcare system is supported. This difference in treatment not only did not make Comrade Liu secretly proud, but on the contrary, Liu Tangchun felt that he could not hold his head up in front of those professors of traditional Chinese medicine.

are also foreign students, why do you teach the benevolence of doctors, take root at the grassroots level to treat diseases and save people, while Lao Tzu's students are all fat and big-eared later, and they can't even do CPR?

This obsession gradually became a lingering shadow in Liu Tangchun's heart, and this shadow even directly led to his good impression of Zhou Jun - an orthopedic surgeon with a bright future, willing to come to the emergency department to do the hardest and most tiring work, which is much better than those Tanzanian students.

And there was another important factor that made Liu Tangchun decide to join the medical team to aid Africa.

He was going to go out and avoid the limelight.

Although Lao Liu's long-term "reckless behavior" in Ningyuan has made Lao Liu a great name, at the same time, this title has also brought him the hostile eyes of the leaders of countless brother units. It's nothing when everyone shows their talents when they are competing for resources, but Lao Liu is too popular, and he will inevitably be hated. Dean Song was well-informed, and he had long known that some people who had suffered a loss planned to take advantage of the limelight of this emergency closure to join Liu Tangchun, so he and Lao Liu set this set of contingency plans together.

Expect to sit at home and wait for someone to knock on the door, it is better to take the initiative yourself. Dean Song used his countless connections, and only then did he stuff Liu Tangchun into the medical team that had already determined the list.

Sun Lien's intuition is actually not wrong, to a certain extent, Liu Tangchun is indeed degraded.

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"I went to Tanzania this time in time for the 22nd medical team. Liu Tangchun saw that Sun Lien was a little calmer, and began to talk about his arrangements. "They've only been there for a month and they're still adapting. I went with it, and I happened to be able to communicate with the health care system over there. ”

Sun Lien looked at Liu Tangchun's old face, not only a little worried. "The environment over there ......"

"The natural climate over there is much better than ours in Ningyuan. Liu Tangchun rolled his eyes, "Don't think that Africa is as hot as hell." The highest temperature over there in summer is only twenty-seven degrees, which is much cooler than Ningyuan!"

"But ......" Sun Lien was still a little entangled, "You just went to Africa, what about Takeda Pharmaceutical's diagnostic center?"

"Takeda is already pushing for the first donations. Liu Tangchun suddenly became serious, and said solemnly to Sun Lien, "I just have some instructions to tell you about this matter." ”

"You remember. Liu Tangchun said solemnly, "Data, especially the health data of a wide range of unrestricted people, is confidential. ”

Sun Lien blinked, not knowing why Liu Tangchun wanted to say this to himself.

"Based on what I've heard, in about a year, the diagnostic center will be up and running. Takeda will do everything possible to collect as much information about patients as possible. Liu Tangchun said solemnly, "However, you can't give it." ”

"Isn't one of the conditions for their donation to be the sharing ......of information," Sun Lien asked with some confusion, as the two sides shared the information and cases of rare disease patients, which was a condition that had been negotiated from the beginning.

"Patients with rare diseases can provide medical records with the consent of the patient and their families. Liu Tangchun nodded, "But other than that, any data they ask for must not be given." ”

Sun Lien frowned and nodded. He doesn't understand big data and the like, but it will definitely not be wrong to listen to Lao Liu's instructions. But within a few seconds, he smiled bitterly. "I'm just a small rule train, you don't need to tell me this, right?"

"Why is it unnecessary?" Liu Tangchun's eyes widened, "You can take the exam after you get the medical practice next year." ”

"Huh?" Sun Lien was stunned, it stands to reason that it takes three years to get a regular training certificate, even if he gets a master's degree, it only shortens the three-year internship to one year - but it takes at least three years to get a master's degree.

"I negotiated the terms with Liu Pingchuan at the beginning. Liu Tangchun laughed like a shriveled old man showing off snacks to his grandson, "You and Xiao Guo's regular exams have been arranged." Xiao Guo is faster than you, as long as he can get through the internship safely, there will be no problem at all in being admitted to the regular program. As for you, let's take the doctor first. ”

Sun Lien nodded with a bitter face. It's really not easy to take the exam, especially for a regular doctor like him, who mainly spends his time in clinical practice - there is not enough time for review!