Chapter 19: Burning Sin
Bai Baige was an attending physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sanhe County People's Hospital, and was a colleague of Xu Yufen and Liang Dongsong.
She was born and raised in Sanhe County, and her family, at the time of the merger of Sanhe County, lived in Xinling County.
At the same time, she knew about the fire in the county hospital in Xinling County forty years ago, and she not only mentioned that the fire killed many people, but also mentioned a strange sentence: "Burned all evil." ”
I couldn't help but feel very surprised, could there be something else hidden in that fire? But the official has released the news that it was caused by a circuit fire?!
"What do you mean by burning all sins?!" I immediately asked.
The white pigeon chief sighed and slowly told me the story of Sanhe County: "My mother told me that I was a lucky person, a chosen one, and an unusual person......
At first, I thought it was just something my mom was saying to encourage me, but then I found out that I was really one of the lucky ones.
In the sixties of the last century, factories were being built everywhere, and at that time, my mother was still young, and she saw a large factory built in the distance in Xinling County, and the big chimney emitted black smoke 24 hours a day.
I thought that the opening of the factory would bring a large number of jobs to the people of Xinling County and improve everyone's lives, but I didn't expect that this was not a sweet dream, but the beginning of a nightmare.
It was a non-ferrous metal smelter, along with several other heavy factories, which not only improved the lives of the villagers, but also brought serious pollution, especially mercury pollution from heavy metal pollution.
Large amounts of industrial wastewater lead to severe mercury pollution of water bodies, as well as atmospheric and soil pollution, which eventually return to the water body as part of the water cycle.
Metallic mercury vapours are highly diffuse and fat-soluble, and can be completely absorbed by the alveoli after invading the respiratory tract and transported throughout the body through the bloodstream.
Metallic mercury in the blood can enter brain tissue through the blood-brain barrier, where it is oxidized to mercury ions. Because it is difficult for mercury ions to cross the blood-brain barrier and return to the bloodstream, they gradually accumulate in the brain tissue and damage the brain tissue.
Metallic mercury in other tissues may also be oxidized to an ionic state and transferred to the kidneys for accumulation.
You must know about the mercury poisoning incident in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, where residents began with unsteady walking, dementia, deafness, blindness, paralysis, and finally mental disorders and death. This is because mercury poisoning is a type of nerve poisoning that can cause systemic nerve damage.
Mercury poisoning is not only harmful to humans, but it can also affect the next generation.
According to my mother, for more than ten years, the fetal malformation rate in Xinling County has been as high as more than 85%, and most of the fetuses have not yet matured due to the blood-brain barrier, and mercury can easily enter the brain and affect the normal development of the nervous system, resulting in microcephaly, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and mental retardation.
And I, on the other hand, was not affected, so my mother used to say that I was a lucky one. ”
When I heard the news, I had mixed feelings, the environmental problem has been a very serious problem since ancient times, and the environment is closely related to each of us.
Lucid waters and lush mountains are gold and silver mountains, and it is not wrong at all.
But at that time, environmental pollution was not taken seriously, and mercury pollution was not understood.
The only thing everyone knows is that the children born are either deformed or demented.
At this moment, I was not facing an obstetrician and gynecologist, but an expert in environmental protection.
In 1950, Professor Ian Donald of the University of Glasgow in Scotland, England, invented B-ultrasound, and used it for gynecological examination for the first time.
China's first B-ultrasound was developed by Shantou Ultrasonic Instrument Research Institute in 1983, which achieved a breakthrough in China's B-ultrasound zero.
However, even if B-ultrasound can determine whether the fetus is malformed, it is unknown for the development of the brain, especially the detection of intelligence.
After sighing, I settled down and asked: "What does this have to do with the fire in Sanhe County People's Hospital?" ”
Bai Baige smiled bitterly and continued to say to me: "At that time, many people didn't know why the fetal malformation rate in Xinling County was so high, not only the residents didn't know, but even the doctors didn't know. Many babies are abandoned at birth because of deformities. The following story is what I have heard, and it cannot be used as evidence,"
After Bai Bai Ge finished speaking, she made sure to me that she had heard the next story.
I smiled slightly, looked at her, nodded and said, "Okay, no problem." ”
"These things are also what I heard from some old employees when I came here to work, and these old employees came to work here after the merger of Sanhe County. They all worked in their respective county hospitals in Xinling County, Ningmen County, and Yimen County. They said that at that time, people's thinking and legal concepts were very thin, and their attitude towards deformed fetuses was very indifferent, even if it was a child they gave birth to, they abandoned it casually. After all, it is very difficult to raise a deformed or demented child, and it may even take a lifetime to take care of the child, so those babies will be abandoned in the hospital. As he spoke, his voice suddenly trembled.
She calmed down, swallowed hard, and said slowly: "I heard that those abandoned babies died soon after, and then used for medical dissection experiments, and everyone wants to explore the root cause of the infant malformation rate in Xinling County." Those little beings, who had not yet seen the sun, were pushed onto the cold operating table. ”
When I heard the news, I was taken aback: "Stillbaby experiment?!" ”
"Yes, the stillborn experiment, at that time, the medical laboratory in Xinling County was full of specimens of the baby's human organs. These were illegal things, but people at the time didn't think so. It wasn't until it was finally learned that the deformed babies in Xinling County were caused by environmental mercury contamination that the experiment was stopped. But by then, it was nearly twenty years later, the factory was closed, the three counties were merged, and all the sins were overturned. Especially the fire, which burned all the specimens, and no one cared about it anymore, and no one knew about it. After the day pigeon finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.
I've heard the older generation talk about environmental pollution in Xinling County, but this is the first time I've heard about deformed babies and stillborn tests.
However, what does all this have to do with the killing of Xu Yufen and Liang Dongsong?
Don't......
A thought crossed my mind, but before I could think about it, I was interrupted by the eager voice of a nurse.
"Doctor Bai, the amniotic water of the pregnant woman in bed 26 is broken, and the umbilical cord is wrapped around the neck and cannot be delivered smoothly." A female nurse hurried to the side of the daytime pigeon.
During the day, the pigeon immediately entered the working state and instantly calmed down.
She immediately said: "Immediately send it to the operating room for a caesarean section, and I will do it myself." ”
I looked at the back of the pigeon departing during the day, and I felt more and more the development of society and the progress of medicine.
B-ultrasound and caesarean section have greatly improved the survival rate of newborns.
Amniotic fluid......