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After more than two hours of staggering through lions, hyenas, giraffes and a herd of curly-haired baboons, the team "smoothly" arrived at the Katu village where they were going on their rounds.
A group of children ran towards the convoy with a lively voice, stretching out their hands around the vehicle and begging for candy. But when they saw that it was not a young white NGO sitting in the car, but an Asian who was some age and wearing white coats, the children immediately dispersed, shouting a few strange words in their mouths.
Felipe translates that the children are shouting "devils in white."
The devils dressed in white scare away the children who ask for candy, but attract the onlookers of the adults. The red word CHINA printed on the white coat and the red cross under CHINA represent health and hope for relief from illness in their eyes.
The children were snatched by adults and walked up to the doctor like chickens. Some doctors are busy feeding sugar pills to their children, while others are not so lucky โ they're seven years old and need to be revaccinated with BCG.
The child who can eat the sugar pill looks at the "devil in white clothes" who feeds the sugar pill, hoping to get another gift of sugar pill through his pure little eyes. And those children who were injected looked at the children in the same village with tears and jealousy - why can they eat candy, but we have to be injected?
A medical team doctor and several local doctors are responsible for immunizing the children. Other doctors removed their desks, chairs and benches from the truck, and began to sit around under several huge coconut trees to prepare for consultations.
Sun Lien looked at the huge coconut on the coconut tree, and couldn't help but be a little worried-with his own character...... Will one of my colleagues be hit on the head by a coconut falling from a tree?
As it turned out, the locals did take great pains to ensure the safety of the doctors in the medical team. After identifying the area where the doctors were to be sitting, Sun saw a few locals wearing Chelsea shirts for some unknown reason walk out carrying a firewood knife and a thick hemp rope. The armed guards moved closer to make defensive gestures, while they put hemp ropes on their feet and began to climb the trees with their knives in their mouths.
The tree, which looked like it was four or five stories tall, took them only ten seconds to climb it. Sun Lien was extremely jealous of this set of skills, if he could climb like this, wouldn't it be fast and convenient to go to the pediatric department to invite a teacher to come for a consultation in the future?
Five locals cut down all the coconuts from the 12 coconut trees, which took a total of five minutes. After five minutes, the doctors on the medical team were able to start the consultation with their heads safe.
Sun Lien's task today is to be in charge of internal medicine consultation - Dr. Liang, who was scheduled to visit today, is not feeling well. Listening to the orthopedic doctor, it may be a precursor to a fatigue fracture that walks too much.
As for Sun Lien...... Anyway, having obtained a medical certificate, Sun Lien can at least come to see people with confidence.
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"It doesn't sound like a problem, it doesn't sound like pneumonia. Sun Lien received several patients who were supposed to be respiratory medicine. The complaints are basically fever, fatigue, and painful blood vessels in the head. The diagnosis process went smoothly, and the status bar also confirmed that it was only a mild cold. There is nothing worth mentioning in the whole process, but Felipe is a little laborious in translating.
"Do these people speak with accents?" After prescribing two ibuprofen pills to the patient, Sun Lien turned to Felipe, who was sweating profusely and desperately drinking water, and asked, "I think you seem to have a hard time translating." โ
"They speak the local dialect. Felipe took another sip of water, "There aren't that many words in the vernacular to describe symptoms, like the one I just said...... Painful throbbing of blood vessels. He pointed to his brain, "The vernacular translates directly to 'I have a gazelle in my head.'" โโ
The local vernacular lacks a rigorous grammar and a sufficiently rich vocabulary. Therefore, the locals will use some nouns as adjectives. For example, "gazelle" can mean running fast, jumping high, and can even be used to mean a well-proportioned body or simply describe "jumping". Anyway, you can use it however you want, and the specific distinction can only be understood by the translator himself.
Sun Lien glanced at Felipe with deep sympathy, it seemed that he had to eat some meat buns today to replenish all the brain cells consumed.
The subsequent diagnosis was calm, except for a patient who needed on-site surgery for treatment of fleas, and there was no situation where "all the medical staff put down their work and came to watch".
Sun Lien was the first patient to see sand flea, and the patient's soles of his feet initially had a large number of gray-white growths, which were very different in color compared to the surrounding healthy skin. Moreover, these gray-white growths are basically round, and you can see that something is wrong at a glance.
And the treatment of this disease is also very simple - they don't even need a doctor from the medical team to operate it personally, the local doctor can deal with it. Use a scalpel blade to cut the dead skin on the surface of the growth horizontally, then dig out the white parasite inside, and finally disinfect it.
Although the treatment is simple...... However, performing surgery in such an environment is a huge risk for the patient himself. Local anesthesia is certainly not available, and anti-infective measures are quite limited. Most people who get sand flea disease are extremely poor โ they get infected mainly because they are barefoot on sand where sand fleas hide. It is then caused by a female sand flea sucking blood on the patient's feet and laying eggs.
Patients who can't even afford to buy a pair of shoes can't afford antibiotics to fight postoperative infections. After the local doctor completed the operation, after confirming that the patient was not penicillin allergic, the medical team prescribed two boxes of amoxicillin potassium clavulanate and also gave him a pair of liberating rubber shoes.
Surgery and medication can only cure a temporary disease, and a pair of shoes can only cure fleasis while the shoes are not broken. The only way to really solve sand flea disease is to make the locals rich, at least to the point where they can buy a pair of shoes of their own.
But this real cure for the disease cannot be prescribed by the medical team.
Sun Lien looked at the treatment with emotion, and then returned to his post and began to treat the locals. A small village has a population of about two or three hundred. But almost everyone has a disease, and most of them are still chronic, which makes Sun Lien very surprised.
Lunch was coconut provided by the locals and freshly purchased chicken brought by the medical team. At Qian Yihong's suggestion, everyone unanimously decided to experience the taste of coconut chicken today.
The sweet coconut milk cooks the chicken, and with the soy sauce it comes with and the local lemon juice and chili, it tastes pretty good.
"If only there was sand ginger. "Dr. Qian is very happy to eat, but he still regrets that the conditions are limited. As a plant that can be both edible and medicinal, it is widely cultivated in southern China. It's a pity that you can't find it in Africa.
Everyone eats coconut chicken together, and the biggest problem is that the pot is not enough. After seeing the doctors' recipes, the local residents began to imitate them. The chicken and coconut are ready-made, but the taste is really worse without soy sauce for dipping sauce. About half an hour after the meal began, all the local residents used up the bottle of soy sauce brought by the medical team.
Sun Lien ate a lot of seven, seven, eight, eight, eight, and was about to tear a steamed bun to finish, but suddenly heard someone calling for help.
Get...... The blackening of his face really happened. Sun Lien sighed inwardly, stood up and looked in the direction of the call for help - it couldn't be that someone's head was smashed by a coconut, right?
Two young locals ran towards the coconut grove where the medical team was located, carrying another young man. Sun Lien saw the patient at a glance, the patient who "had a gazelle in his head".
"Manten Bamusha Mulbein, male, 21 years old. Sinus tachycardia (00.15.22), unconsciousness (00.05.11), convulsions (00.04.24). "I don't know if it's because I came to Africa, but the symptoms in the status bar are starting to get worse.