Boundless benevolence

The sun rises slowly in the new day, and the sun shines on the vast land of Africa. In the morning light, the flag of Doctors Without Borders is flying high.

The gates of the camp had already been opened.The people waiting outside walked into the camp in an orderly manner, and the men consciously placed the spears in their hands in the designated area outside the door—there was a striking sign above it, with pictures and several The language expresses one content: No weapons shall be brought into the camp.

"Men over the age of 15 please line up here, women and children here." Li Qian and Sam stood at the door and emphasized loudly to the people who came in.Today they are conducting medical examinations and publicizing medical knowledge for the people of a local tribe.Although Dudan has established a state, local conflicts still exist, and basic medical facilities are almost completely absent.Therefore, the main task of their operation is to provide basic medical services for the local people.Among them, women and children are the focus of attention.A few days ago, Du Rusong had led people to persuade the chiefs of two nearby tribes to agree to allow their children and women to undergo medical examinations, so early this morning, all their tribesmen rushed over.

People automatically and consciously walked into different consultation sheds according to the requirements.The entire operation today is divided into three parts: nutritional status checks and vaccinations for children; basic gynecological examinations for women to promote hygiene knowledge; hygiene awareness awareness for men. Massa and Mia are women, so they are naturally responsible for the female part of the physical examination; Chu Xiao is of course responsible for the children's examination, and the remaining Han Yujun and Li Shixi have to leave one person to help Chu Xiao, and the other to take care of the male part.Han Yujun generously asked Li Shixi to choose. Li Shixi wanted to say that it didn't matter, but when he heard Ron explain that the male side mainly promotes birth control to those people, he immediately chose pediatrics without hesitation.

"Why do I feel that the two of you are uniting to bully me?" Han Yujun looked at Ron and then at Li Shixi, complaining half-truthfully with raised eyebrows.

"No, I'm afraid that I won't be able to handle it alone because of my lack of experience." Li Shixi smiled flatteringly.Li Shixi and Ron have become good friends since Ron helped him retrieve the camera the day before yesterday. "You are a senior, so this kind of task should be entrusted to you."

Maybe Li Shixi himself didn't notice that when he spoke, there was a kind of mischievousness that had never appeared before. Han Yujun's eyes flashed a strange look. He looked at Li Shixi, and then couldn't help laughing. He raised his hand and rubbed it. Li Shixi's hair, said: "Then hurry up, vaccinating children is not as easy as you think."

Li Shixi was stunned for a moment—Han Yujun touched his head?Isn't this action a little...intimacy?

However, over there, Han Yujun had already withdrawn his hand and left with Ron. Ron also turned around and gave Li Shixi a big smile.Li Shixi had no choice but to tell himself that he was thinking too much, and then turned around to meet Chu Xiao in the pediatric clinic.

Outside the pediatric consultation shed, it was already in full swing.When Chu Xiao heard that Li Shixi was here to help him, he suddenly showed an exaggerated expression of "thank God", and he immediately stuffed a child at hand to Li Shixi: "It just so happens that this child has a cough and fever, I suspect it is a bronchial tube." Pneumonia, help me draw his blood. I'm so busy here."

"OK." Li Shixi skillfully took out the blood collection needle and blood collection tube, and then used iodophor to disinfect the child's arm, and then -

hesitate……

The small arm of the African child in front of him is pitch black and uniform in color, and there is no trace of blue blood vessels like those of the yellow race. How can he find the blood vessels?

"Huh? What's the matter?" Chu Xiao was busy there for a while, and realized that Li Shixi didn't seem to have moved, so he turned his head.

"That..." Li Shixi felt a little embarrassed, but had to say, "I can't find a blood vessel..."

Chu Xiao was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing, he turned around quickly: "I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you just now. Africans have dark skin, and blood vessels can't be seen by looking, but need to be felt by hand." Chu Xiao Xiao took Li Shixi's hand and put it on the child's arm, "Do you feel it?"

"En." After stroking the child's arm, the fingertips finally felt the slightly raised blood vessels.While confirming the position of the blood vessel with his left hand, Li Shixi carefully aligned the needle on his right hand and pierced it until he saw the red blood flowing into the blood collection tube along the needle, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh." Only then did Li Shixi understand that what Han Yujun said to him just now was not a joke.

"Well, it's not easy to be a pediatrician, is it?" Chu Xiao said to Li Shixi with a smile.Li Shixi nodded in agreement.

"However," Chu Xiao vaccinated the next child, and then attached it to Li Shixi's ear again, "Actually, I didn't find a blood vessel at the beginning, and they taught me."

Seeing Li Shixi's stunned expression for a moment, Chu Xiao smiled as if he had succeeded in a prank. Li Shixi asked the sky speechlessly: Why am I being molested everywhere today? !

The work of each group was carried out in an orderly manner. As the number of people inspected gradually increased, everyone's expressions became more and more serious.Among the more than 60 children who were examined, as many as 48 were malnourished!Moreover, nearly 20 of them were severely malnourished. Those children were skinny and their condition was very serious.

"These children must stay for treatment." Chu Xiao looked up and said to Li Qian who came to help.

Li Qian nodded, turned around and explained to the parents of these children, asking them to agree that the children should stay in the hospital.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it would be really hard to imagine that there are so many children who can't eat in the world." Li Shixi sighed to Chu Xiao.

"Yeah, did you know? When I was in Thailand, I saw several children who were obese due to overeating every day, but here, the situation is completely reversed." Chu Xiao lost the smile on his face, and turned to It was replaced by bitterness and heaviness.

After Li Qian's persuasion, the parents of many children agreed to let their children stay in the hospital, so Chu Xiao and Mia went to arrange for these children to be hospitalized.He came to the door of the men's clinic, and before he could go in, he saw those men coming out of it. Some of them gathered together and said something, their expressions seemed amused or disdainful, and some of them came out, casually Throw what you have on the ground.Li Shixi picked up a discarded object, and he recognized it at a glance. It was a free condom prepared by Doctors Without Borders for the local people.

He picked up the condoms on the ground and walked into the clinic, only to see Han Yujun and Ron left inside, and they were also picking up the condoms thrown away by people on the ground.When they saw the thing in Li Shixi's hand, several people smiled wryly.

"It seems that the effect is not ideal." Li Shixi walked to Han Yujun, knelt down and helped him pick it up.

"Oh, it was expected a long time ago. Africans don't have the concept of family planning, and it is very difficult for them to accept these concepts."

"Sometimes I really don't understand why these people have such a sudden birth when they obviously can't support so many children. You haven't seen how thin those children in the pediatric department have become. As parents, don't they know how to be born? Is there any reason to raise it?!" Thinking of the skinny child he saw just now, and thinking of the disdainful eyes of those men just now, Li Shixi felt a burst of anger.

"Because it is not easy to feed, we need to have more children. Only in this way can we ensure that there are enough children to grow up." Han Yujun said.

"Survival of the fittest, natural selection, isn't it?" Li Shixi asked back, with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, "The laws of nature have not changed here for a thousand years."

"Because of this, we are needed more." Han Yujun patted Li Shixi on the shoulder, "It will get better gradually, I keep telling myself that."

On the other side, after arranging the hospitalization of a dozen small patients, Chu Xiao walked out of the tent, only to find that Li Qian was arguing fiercely with a black man.

"What's wrong?" Chu Xiao walked over and asked.

"This man doesn't agree to let his daughter stay in the hospital! His child is like this, and he still says it's fine, but he doesn't agree to let the child stay in the hospital!" Li Qian said angrily.

Chu Xiao looked across, and behind the black man stood a woman who seemed to be his wife.The woman is holding a child who is less than one year old, and beside the woman is a little girl who is three or four years old.The little girl was wearing a worn-out vest. The vest should be an adult's size. Putting it on the child made the little guy look thinner and thinner.The child's ribs can be seen through the side slits, which seem to be covered only by a layer of membrane-like skin, and the gaps between the ribs are clearly visible.Because of the extreme lack of nutrition, the child's head is obviously big and the body is small. The shape of the bones can be clearly seen on the arms and legs, and there is no trace of muscle at all.The little girl grabbed her mother's dress with both hands, and looked timidly at the adults who were arguing.Chu Xiao noticed that the little girl's eyes were particularly bright, like two black crystals.

Chu Xiao smiled at the little girl friendly, raised his head and asked Li Qian, "Why doesn't he agree to be hospitalized? We don't charge them for hospitalization."

"He said his daughter would go home to take care of her younger brother!" When she said this, Li Qian's expression was almost described as "gritting her teeth", "Patriarchy can't be too much, right?! Children are like this Letting him take care of his younger brother, isn't it clear that he doesn't care about her life!! Girls are not human! Where are you stinking men without women!!"

In a rage, Li Qian didn't realize that Chu Xiao, who was opposite her, was brought in by the words just now.Chu Xiao smiled helplessly, and pulled Li Qian to his side.

"Okay, okay, calm down, I'll tell him. Don't worry, I have a way."

"What do you say?!" Li Qian was still angry.

"No problem, trust me. I've seen many difficult parents." Chu Xiao smiled comfortingly at Li Qian, pulled Sam aside, and walked towards the father.

Li Qian stood aside, because after a distance, she couldn't hear what Xiao said. She only saw Chu Xiao pointing at the little girl, then pointing at the baby in the woman's arms, and then the man's face became more and more serious. Getting more serious, he looked back at the little girl, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded heavily to Chu Xiao.

The author has something to say: Whether it is MSF TV series or related documentaries, it can be seen that a considerable part of their work is aimed at local pregnant women and children.I really feel that in that kind of place, being able to live to old age is purely fate...

Fortunately, I was born in a modern country.