Chapter 322: The Golden Needle for Life
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These refugees come from all over the world and have to go through a rigorous selection process for the safety of the camps. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoKenya and Somalia are among the endemic areas for malaria, typhoid, yellow fever, cholera and AIDS, and medical testing is needed to prevent those with such infectious diseases from entering the camps.
This is very important, because in Africa, it is very easy to find a person with AIDS, because Africa is the hardest hit area of AIDS, and Africa, which accounts for nearly 10% of the world's population, accounts for more than 70% of the world's people living with AIDS and HIV. At present, AIDS has become the "number one killer" in Africa, and the number of people who die from AIDS every year is 10 times higher than the number of people who die from wars and natural disasters.
It has been proven many times that the rapid spread of AIDS is closely linked to poverty. The poorer the country, the more and more concentrated the number of people living with AIDS. In poor countries, the rate of AIDS spread is particularly alarming due to poor living conditions, low levels of education, limited funding, lack of access to medicines, poor means of prevention and treatment, and inability to purchase medicines.
When water and food were placed next to the refugee group, the entire refugee group quickly gathered around, and if it were not for the deterrent power of the weapons in the hands of the soldiers, I am afraid that the food and water would have been looted.
There is not a lot of water and food, and tens of thousands of refugees, each person can only get a little bit. But this is already extremely rare for these refugees.
These refugees first have to gather together to distribute water and food, and then go through simple medical testing, simple disinfection, screening and isolation, because they are afraid of infectious diseases, yellow fever and malaria, which are common in Africa, once spread among refugees, it will be catastrophic, because there are not many vaccines in the aid stations!
After inspection, they will only get a tent, and now all they can do is keep them alive.
Not only food, but also medicines are scarce, more than doctors, even a small bottle of anti-inflammatory drugs, its price is more than 100 times more expensive than the outside world, and in many cases, drugs are monopolized by warlords and the government, and civilians cannot buy them even if they have money. Even if the rescue team brought a lot of medicines, it would be a drop in the bucket with such a large population base.
Each person must undergo several medical tests and be disinfected throughout their body. In this way, you can say goodbye to the makeshift tent and receive new clothes, which you say are new clothes, but only a few pieces of cloth, and then you can live in the camp.
This is not to say that patients cannot enter the camp, which is divided into three distinct parts, the main camp in the centre, with temporary wards on one side and refugee quarters on the other.
After the initial difficulties, the situation is now basically under control, except for the help of Angel Charity, the World Red Cross and the United Nations Relief Society, these days almost 20,000 refugees from Somalia or northern Kenya have been rescued, but because of the lack of medicine or the lack of time to treat the countless people who died, a large number of refugees are gone, but there are still sporadic refugees rushing here.
Because of the lack of manpower, An Yuxi also put on a white coat and joined the medical team in the past few days.
Now his face is full of tiredness, with two panda eyes, it seems that he hasn't slept for long in the past few days, the medical conditions here are too poor, and the medical equipment is very few, I didn't expect that the Chinese medicine is of great use here, although the price is that he only rests for less than 4 hours a day, An Yuxi is also very happy, although his medical skills are not too skilled, but he has not forgotten them all, plus he also made up some knowledge before coming, so the performance is not too bad, and he did not embarrass the old Chinese medicine.
Every morning, he had to come to this isolation ward for more than ten minutes, this is a serious ward, and ordinary people are not allowed to come here for fear of being infected.
The so-called isolation ward is nothing more than a small tent, and the camp is full of pungent smell of disinfectant water and white lime sprinkled everywhere.
To be honest, he didn't like the taste very much, which is probably the reason why he likes Chinese medicine.
Lying in this ward was a ten-year-old child he knew, and as for the age, An Yuxi guessed it himself.
This child has AIDS, not long ago, his last relative also left him, he was an orphan, when he was rescued, he was in a coma in the arms of his mother, who had died of a cold, because after HIV defeated the immune system, it is not fatal, and the patient with AIDS will only die of other diseases or malignant tumors, complicated by the consumption of childbirth, and even the death of the whole body.
So far, there is no specific drug to cure AIDS in the world, and there is no effective vaccine that can be used to prevent it, so there is no talk of curing him, even if it is a traverser.
In fact, the child didn't know him at all, because before he saw him, he fell into a coma, I don't know the name of this child, An Yuxi also gave him a name, called Galen, he hoped that the name Galen would give him strength, so that he could fight the disease, live longer, at least wake up, he wanted to reward him with a coconut candy, the children here are very fond of candy, it should be said that children everywhere like candy.
His immune system has basically collapsed, and now the mucous membranes of the mouth and pharynx have been severely inflamed and ulcerated, which is Candida albicans infection, and there is continuous and widespread generalized lymphadenopathy, especially the neck, armpit and inguinal lymphadenopathy is very obvious, and he has been suffering from a high fever, unconscious, and a large number of complications, coupled with malnutrition, the situation is very poor, and he may die at any time.
Although it was futile to do so, An Yuxi still came over every day, and it has been seven days now.
He will never forget the look in the eyes of the black mother when she handed over her child to him, it was the desire and nostalgia for survival, which was shocking.
This little child, who was tortured by illness to the point of not being human, is now only a skeleton left,
"I have two younger sisters, one is called Jessica and the other is Krystal, both are very cute and beautiful children, they are my precious treasures in the world, if you can wake up, I can reluctantly let you see what the angel looks like!"
As usual, An Yuxi babbled on and on, dabbling his chapped lips with a cotton swab dipped in water.
But not long after, the words stopped abruptly, An Yuxi felt that something was wrong, his face was wrong!
Although the black man was so dark that he could hardly see his face, he could see it in his face—death, an indescribable feeling or experience!
An Yuxi's face changed, and he hurriedly put down the things in his hand, took off his gloves, and stretched out a hand to probe the end of Galen's nose, and sure enough, his breath was weak.
Not good!
In a hurry, An Yuxi wanted to call a doctor, but fortunately he hadn't lost his mind, and suddenly thought that he was also a doctor, and immediately calmed down.
The hard work pays off, An Yuxi thought that he would also know acupuncture! He and the old Chinese medicine have a set of life-saving acupuncture! As long as the treated party still has a breath left, it is suitable for the current situation.
However, An Yuxi has never been used on people, because there is no chance! Where will someone who is going to die give him an injection!
That's a human life!
After thinking for half a second, he finally made a decision, only to see him quickly take out a black wallet from the inner pocket of his clothes, as soon as he opened it, there were two photos inside, he only glanced at it, and then turned one photo to the side, it turned out that this wallet had three layers, and there was a row of delicate gold needles of different sizes and lengths tied on this side.
An Yuxi took out a golden needle, took a deep breath, and said something in his mouth, allowing himself to concentrate, and his expression became solemn, although this was the first time to use it, the speed in his hand was not slow, and he quickly pierced the first needle into the Yongquan point in the center of Galen's foot, and then the second...
After giving the needle, An Yuxi was covered in fine sweat all over his body, shook his dizzy head slightly, put away his wallet, and then strode out to find a doctor.
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