Chapter 7: A trip to West Africa

Get married! So fast!

Ye Zhenzhen's heart trembled, although she was looking forward to it, but when Nan Zhiqiao said this, her heart still had a wave in her heart.

The woman next to her didn't react, Nan Zhiqiao drove the car, glanced sideways, and found that Zhen Zhen was in a daze, "Zhen Zhen, what's wrong?"

Zhen Zhen came back to her senses, and smiled with a slight red face: "It's okay, I just don't think it's real, get married!" ”

Nan Zhiqiao freed up a hand, clenched the hand of Zhen Zhen beside him, clasped his hands, and smiled warmly, "This is real, in fact, meeting, falling in love, getting married, forming our own family, having our own children, raising them to grow up, and then watching them get married and have children, while the two of us slowly grow old, this is a process that most people will go through, we are just going through this process." ”

"Sounds romantic. Ye Zhenzhen sighed.

"This is what you say, 'Hold the hand of the son, grow old with the son'. ”

"Well, it feels like my wish is about to come true. ”

The two returned to the old house in the western suburbs, at the dinner table, Grandpa Nan kept a straight face, Nan Zhiqiao took the initiative to talk to his grandfather about getting married immediately after returning from West Africa, Grandpa Nan's face immediately became happy, and began to nag about arranging the wedding, and the two of them should pay attention to safety during their trip to West Africa, and finally, as soon as the grandfather was happy, he decided to allocate a part of the medical equipment from the Bailin Medical Device Factory under the Nanmu Group to donate it to the city built by Nanzhiqiao, which can be regarded as a support for his grandson's work.

Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen glanced at each other, it seemed that Nan Zhiqiao knew his grandfather's thoughts, and sure enough, for the marriage of the two, with Nan Zhiqiao and Zhen Zhen's promise to get a marriage certificate, Nan Zhiqiao became happy and donated so many things.

——

Early the next morning, Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen boarded the plane to Sierra Leone, West Africa, with aid supplies, along with the expert team of 11 people.

Upon arrival, everyone settled in.

Each member of the expert group has their own tasks, and Minami is tasked with providing guidance to the participants of the field epidemiology training program, simply put, teaching others, and visiting and attending conferences.

The mission of Ye Zhenzhen is to collect relevant information for the upcoming project of timely vaccination of newborns with the first dose of hepatitis B vaccine in China and Cyprus.

In the first two days, the trainees were collectively trained, Nan Zhiqiao gave unified lectures, and provided technical guidance, covering all aspects of the investigation, including Lassa fever outbreak, measles outbreak, rubella outbreak, rabies, yellow fever, acute and flaccid paralysis cases, maternal deaths, etc., as well as the analysis of infectious disease surveillance data analysis, the analysis of the quality and timeliness of monitoring data reporting in medical institutions, and finally made a summary.

The day after the team arrived in West Africa, the team led by Dr. Mu for the Ebola vaccine clinical trial also arrived in West Africa, but in different locations.

The team is based in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, while Dr. Mu's team is based in the eastern city of Kenema, a city on the edge of the Guinean highlands and the third largest city in Sierra Leone, which was the worst city in the last Ebola outbreak and was therefore selected as the site for the Ebola vaccine clinical trial.

Nan Zhiqiao's mission and Ye Zhenzhen's mission seem to have nothing to do with each other, but the itinerary often overlaps.

This is because most of the trainees who participated in the on-site epidemiology training program are the backbone of various hospitals, Nan Zhiqiao has to go to various hospitals to visit the trainees, and Ye Zhenzhen's first-dose hepatitis B vaccine newborn timely vaccination project also has to go to various hospitals, so the schedules of the two always overlap.

The same trip, going to the same hospital, is naturally going to the same car together.

In his free time during the training, Nan Zhiqiao will pay attention to the progress of the Ebola vaccine clinical trial on Dr. Mu's side, and everything is going according to plan.

——

After a busy few days, it was our first day off in Sierra Leone.

For Ye Zhenzhen, who came to Africa for the first time, a rest day means that she can come out to play justifiably, but when she thought that Nan Zhiqiao had to pay attention to the progress of the Ebola vaccine clinical trial in addition to her usual work, she took the initiative to say to Nan Zhiqiao: "Do you want to go to Kenema this rest day?"

"You want to go to Kenema, which has nothing to offer other than large sugar cane plantations and primeval forests. Nan Zhiqiao asked rhetorically.

"It's not that I want to go, it's Dr. Mu who is conducting the Ebola vaccine clinical trial there, Senior Nan, aren't you very concerned about its progress, do you want to take advantage of the rest day to take a look?"

"No, Dr. Mu has the ability to deal with it, this rest day, let's go around the neighborhood together. ”

Nan Zhiqiao said easily, Ye Zhenzhen was happy in her heart, and directly expressed herself in action, took Nan Zhiqiao's hand, and jumped up excitedly, "Great, where are we going first?"

"Where do you want to go? I'll drive you. ”

"We've only been here for a few days, Senior Nan, where did you get the car?"

Nan Zhiqiao shook the car key in his hand and said with a smile: "When I came last time, I deposited it at a friend's place, and if I want to use the car today, he sent it to me." ”

Ye Zhenzhen remembered that the last time Nan Zhiqiao came to West Africa, he almost died here, but he didn't expect to have friends here and buy a car.

"Go downtown and see the 100-year-old kapok tree, it's the symbol of Liberty City, and I'm going to take a picture with it. ”

"Taking pictures is something that only the most earthy tourists do. Nan Zhiqiao quipped.

"I just like to be the most earthy tourist, what?

"No opinion, I'd love to accompany you on a tour of the most earthy and down-to-earth sightseeing. ”

Nan Zhiqiao drove out of the hotel where the expert group was staying and drove along the main road towards the city center.

Freetown, English FREE TON, meaning free city, surrounded by the sea on three sides, one side of the mountain, located in the center of the kapok tree, is said to be the colonizer of the place where the collection of black slaves, has now become a symbol of the city.

There was just a rain last night, and there was still some water on the road, Nan Zhiqiao drove an open-top off-road vehicle on the road, the morning sun was cool and comfortable, and there were many local residents on the sidewalk on the side of the road who were jogging in the morning, both men and women, old and young, the muscles of the men were strong, and the breasts and buttocks of the women were plump.

Ye Zhenzhen sat in the co-pilot's seat, the ponytail tied behind her head fluttered in the wind, tilted her head sideways and looked at the scenery flashing by the roadside, and sighed: "The air here is good, the scenery is beautiful, people also like sports, it is different from my previous impression of Africa, it is still very good here, there are villas on the seaside and hillsides, not as poor as imagined." ”

Nan Zhiqiao drove the car, his hair blowing in the wind, "We are now walking in the rich areas of the city, and when we get to the slums and the countryside, you will know the country again." ”