To be sure, the company has spent a lot of effort on the construction of the annexes, using a large number of the latest domestic technology, the latest scientific research results and the most cutting-edge equipment, especially in the field of medicine, which is crucial to the well-being of the people and population growth, and the resources invested are enormous. If converted into per capita medical resources, it is even much more than the local one, which makes people have to sigh at the company's emphasis on medical career and medical development.

Since its establishment more than two years ago, in addition to the remarkable achievements in infrastructure construction, it has also spent great energy in health and culture - this is undoubtedly the result of the strong personal will of the helmsman of the Southern Railway, because no reasonable leader will invest a lot of valuable resources in "relatively unimportant" aspects such as health and culture at the beginning of the company's creation, from this point of view, Mo Ming, the current helmsman of the Southern Railway, is indeed "irrational".

Where is his "irrationality"? First of all, he put down his old face, ran to the east bank of the mainland, and poached a group of graduates from Dayuhe Medical College, Nurse Secondary School and other schools to work in the Southern Railway, and gave them extremely high treatment. After these people arrived at the railway annex, together with some Langzhong who were "arrested" from the Ming Dynasty, they set up an outpatient department in each of the seven settlements including Xingnangang to provide medical services for the immigrants. In addition, through his connections with the Ministry of Health, he also invited local doctors and Langzhong to the Southern Railway Affiliated Area from time to time to form a roving clinic to provide temporary medical services for local residents, which was widely welcomed by the 20,000 or 30,000 residents of the Railway Affiliated Area.

Don't underestimate the role of these outpatient departments, they may not be able to treat many diseases, but they still do a pretty good job in undertaking health and epidemic prevention, endemic disease investigation and health knowledge promotion. To put it mildly. At present, the East Coast itself is not in a position to have a township-level outpatient department in every settlement. In many places, the village doctor is fooling around. Far inferior to the Southern Railway.

If all of the above is nothing, then President Mo Da has something even more "crazy", that is, he also took out a large part of the funds that are not very abundant, and personally donated 2,000 yuan to set up a health research institute called "Southern Railway Health Research Institute" in Xingnangang. The institute, which was completed in the first half of this year, covers an area of 38,000 square meters and consists of about 40 buildings, divided into six research departments: bacteriology, pathology, chemistry, hygiene, serum, and germs - but don't be fooled by these professional titles. In fact, at present, some basic research in these fields has been carried out on the East Coast for various reasons, and the results have been limited.

"Don't be embarrassed to admit that the health situation of our inhabitants, especially those in the Southern Railway, is still at a very low level. To fundamentally reverse this situation, it is necessary to invest heavily in medical research and education, and to develop a competent, ethical, and large-scale medical workforce. This passage was said by Mo Ming at the inauguration ceremony of the Southern Railway Health Research Institute. Within a month of its founding, the institute enrolled 20 East Coast students and one naturalized Patagonian student – who of course had to attend a preparatory department to learn Chinese – to serve as assistants to medical researchers.

As soon as the Southern Railway Health Research Institute was established a while ago, it immediately carried out a number of health tests, water quality and drug inspections and other tasks. Among them, the scientific research tasks include: the prevention and control of measles, plague, scarlet fever, yellow fever, diphtheria and other infectious diseases that have been raging on the East Coast for a long time; Research on the nutritional content of the main food resources of the East Coast, the nutritional content of Chinese food (specified Chinese food) and how to make Chinese food more suitable for East Coast people; solutions to the problem of malnutrition among some children, and so on. In addition, there are a number of pilot projects commissioned by the local Ministry of Health, such as water quality surveys, drug tests (with Tverche tests), etc.

Meantime. As a country where Eastern and Western cultures violently intersected, the East Coast also conducted in-depth research on the medicine of the Ming Kingdom. The local community has come a long way in this regard. And some progress has been made in herbalism. Of course, the newly established Nantie Health Research Institute will not give up the study of oriental medicine, and it even has a branch of "pharmacy specialty" hanging under the chemical research department, specializing in the study of traditional Chinese medicine and herbology, and at the same time vigorously collecting prescriptions in the hands of Ming Guolang, and then organizing people to conduct research and analysis together.

At present, there are 18 researchers in this branch, almost all of whom are from Langzhong in the Ming Dynasty, who rely on more than 1,500 books of traditional Chinese medicine in the library (collected by the Heishui Pioneer Team, and are still continuing to enrich the library of traditional Chinese medicine), to repeatedly research and study various ancient books and ancient prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, and at the same time to carry out scientific discussions on the prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine used since ancient times.

In any case, this is a rather pragmatic act. At present, more than half of the medical staff and 90% of the experienced doctors on the East Coast are from traditional Chinese medicine, and many of them have opened pharmacies in the Ming Kingdom to prescribe medicines for patients. After all, in the case of the extreme lack of modern medical equipment and modern medicines, the people of the East Coast can only find ways to find out what is useful for the medical cause from the huge number of ancient Chinese medical books collected.

And those Chinese medicine practitioners who came from the Ming Dynasty have also gained a lot in this process, and some have even put forward pioneering ideas, such as the method of treating tuberculosis (vaccination by vaccinia) that is currently being tested by the Southern Railway Hospital, which was proposed by a Chinese medicine practitioner who has experience in giving cowpox to people, which is very surprising.

The Southern Railway Health Research Institute plans to add more manpower in the future to conduct a comprehensive study of various ancient medical books, and then compile them to form a medical catalogue, which is called "Ming Medical Book Examination", which echoes the "Song Medical Book Examination" that is being studied and demonstrated in the local area.

At the same time, the Southern Rail Health Research Institute has also carried out targeted research on "endemic diseases" in southern Patagonia - although it is still just getting started, and there are only a few people. The researchers conducted basic research on the local prevalence of tuberculosis (cold winters, long hours spent indoors), kala-azar (very endemic in Shandong), goiter (more prevalent in Hebei), large bone joint disease (more prevalent among North Korean and Shandan immigrants), and malnutrition (more among dock workers and coal miners, these Ming immigrants were reluctant to spend money on large amounts of non-staple food, so they ate a lot of grains in one meal, but were still susceptible to malnutrition), although they still had no clue. But I believe that with the passage of time, research results will eventually come out and begin to benefit thousands of people in China.

In addition to these adult diseases, as a country with a very short population, the Southern Rail Health Research Institute has undoubtedly conducted a lot of research in the areas of childcare, pregnancy, and gynecological diseases. At present, this knowledge comes mainly from the Lang who were taken captive from the Ming Dynasty, and their experience with infantile and gynecological diseases is quite reliable - at least much better than that of the carpenter-turned-Western witch doctors who can only amputate and bleed - and provide some advice to the common people.

Some time ago, there were even rumors in Xingnan Port that Lola, a shipbuilding designer from France and the wife of President Mo Mingmo, planned to privately fund 2,000 yuan to set up a separate gynecology and children's hospital in Xingnan Port to provide medical services for women and young children -- she really did not want to see the newborn children of the East Coast Republic die on a large scale due to an unexpected epidemic. It's just that at present, it seems that there is a shortage of talents, and it can't be opened for a while, so it can only be built slowly.

All in all, the investment in medical care is huge, and the determination to solve the diseases that threaten the health of the residents of the dependent areas (brought in by immigrants) is also extremely huge. From the current initiatives, it seems clear that they are carrying out basic research on the disease, promoting the prevention of infectious diseases (which is not effective, but it must be maintained), and training a large number of health-care, epidemic prevention and medical personnel, with a short-term focus on eliminating tuberculosis and protecting frail women and children.

Researchers at the Southern Rail Health Research Institute have long believed that reducing disease deaths is more important than encouraging births. The Republic of the East Coast is a country built on a wild land, and the wild virgin land means uninhabitable, or the land is unmodified and full of various pathogenic agents, as can be seen from the fact that a large number of people die from epidemics almost every month in the East Coast. The steppe areas of the southern part of the Republic (drier and cooler than the north) are better, while the northern Duck Lake basin and the Gérard Mountains are much stricter.

In those places, only two or three hundred people may have died in a particular settlement from indigenous attacks, but the number of deaths from epidemics and even unknown diseases was often twice as high - and it is no wonder that the Dutch and Portuguese have been immigrating to Brazil for so long, and yet there are still only so many people, the mortality rate is too high; Virginia and New England in North America are also very similar, and when the land was first opened, a large number of people died of various diseases, which was really a headache. In other words, if there is no good medical system and knowledge of hygiene and epidemic prevention, the work of opening up wild areas will become extremely dangerous. Especially on the East Coast, where most of the adult males had to travel all the way from the Far East, the thirst for a good sanitation system and a medical system far exceeded that of the colonial countries of the Old World, who did not have as many grey animals to consume.

Therefore, it is imperative to increase investment in medical research! (To be continued......)