Boundless benevolence

Perhaps it was the magical power of the bowl of fish soup, or the medicine that he had been taking before had finally exerted its effect. That night, Li Shixi's spirit improved a lot, and after waking up the next day, his state was further recovered .As a result, Dr. Li Shixi, who was tortured by malaria for a week, finally recovered and officially returned to work.

This morning, Li Shixi got up early and came to the clinic.There was no one in the clinic yet, so Li Shixi picked up the diagnosis log on the table, and was about to learn about everyone's work in the past few days.However, just after reading two pages, I heard someone calling me: "Doctor Li."

Li Shixi looked up, it turned out to be Ron.

"Ron, good morning!" Li Shixi smiled at Ron.

Ron smiled back, his white teeth contrasting sharply with his black face.He walked up to Li Shixi, held a box in both hands, and handed it to Li Shixi: "This is for you."

"Huh? Send me? What?" Li Shixi took it with a little curiosity.The box is not big and the weight is not heavy.Li Shixi opened it curiously, and a gray-black reptile instantly entered Li Shixi's eyes.

"Damn it!" Li Shixi didn't expect that the box contained a living thing, so he blurted out obscenities in a hurry.Fortunately, he spoke Chinese, which Ron couldn't understand.Resisting the urge to throw the box out, Li Shixi stretched out his arms to keep this guy away from him. Then, he looked at Ron who was smiling sincerely, and asked with a forced smile, "Uh... ...Ron, is this a...lizard?"

"Yes." Ron seemed happy that Li Shixi recognized it, and smiled even brighter.

Li Shixi felt that he still couldn't understand the brain circuit of this African youth, and continued to laugh awkwardly: "You... give it... to me?"

"Yeah." Ron nodded, smiling very sincerely.

"Hehe...hehe..." Li Shixi felt herself laughing extremely stiffly.He was embarrassed to tell Ron that since the last time he found that little animal from his shoe, Li Shixi felt that he was afraid of four-legged reptiles.But Ron obviously has good intentions, so it's not good to refuse directly. What's more, Africans are relatively simple and straightforward. If you refuse his kindness rashly, you may hurt him... Li Shixi hesitated for a moment, and spoke carefully : "Well...Actually...I don't really keep pets..."

"Hey, Leslie, Ron, you guys came so early!" At this moment, a voice broke the embarrassment, and Han Yujun was walking towards them with a smile.

Seeing him appear, Li Shixi suddenly felt that he had seen a savior: "Ah Yujun, you are so good!" He quickly ran to Han Yujun, stretched his arms, handed the box to Han Yujun, and explained softly in his ear: " Ron wants to give me a lizard, but I don't keep anything in the first place, and there are already a lot of small animals here, and if I put this guy in my house..."

"Huh? Lizard?" Han Yujun seemed to be interested when he heard it. He glanced at the box in Li Shixi's hand, and his eyes lit up immediately: "Oh, this is a good species!" Han Yujun looked up at Ron and gave a thumbs up , "Ron, you are amazing!"

Ron grinned, a happy grin.

"Shixi, Ron gave you a nice gift." Han Yujun explained softly to Li Shixi, "There are a lot of bugs and mosquitoes here at Du Dan, and lizards only eat these mosquitoes. If you keep this thing in the room, those The bugs won't bother you anymore. Ron sent you a biological mosquito killer!"

"Ah?" Li Shixi's eyes widened - it turned out that Ron meant that...

Ron didn't seem to notice Li Shixi's misunderstanding just now. He followed up with Han Yujun and said, "Doctor Li, if you had this thing earlier, you wouldn't be bitten by mosquitoes and get malaria. You have to be in good health to help us." Treatment. Don't worry, this lizard is easy to keep and well-behaved, and will not delay your rest." After speaking, there was another big smile.

"Ron, thank you." Li Shixi stepped forward and gave Ron a big hug, "I will definitely take good care of it."

After everyone's unremitting efforts, the malaria of the Diwa people was finally brought under control. Soon, they all recovered and left the hospital.On the day of discharge from the hospital, the Diwa people sent many gifts to the doctors in the camp to express their gratitude to MSF. Even the doctors in the camp were drawn into the dance camp by them.

"These Africans are actually easy to get along with." After a round of dancing, Li Shixi sighed.

"Yeah, every time I see them expressing their gratitude like this, I feel that the previous hard work is worth it." Han Yujun smiled.

"Yes." Li Shixi nodded in agreement.

Time passed by in such a busy day, and a month passed in a blink of an eye.Today the camp is lively again, because, today, those malnourished children can finally be discharged from the hospital today.

Early in the morning, many villagers gathered outside the camp.They are all villagers from the two tribes who came to receive medical examinations and health promotion when the camp first opened.At first, Li Shixi thought that they came back today just to pick up their children, but when he saw that the number of people coming far exceeded his expectations, he realized that these people might not just come here to pick up their children.

"What are they holding?" Li Shixi asked Du Rusong beside him.

"Empty medicine bottle." Du Rusong replied.

"Huh? Really..." Only then did Li Shixi realize that the thing looked familiar, wasn't it the vitamin pill bottle that they distributed to the villagers for free? !

"What are they doing with the medicine bottles? Do we have to recycle these medicine bottles?" Li Shixi was puzzled.

"It's not the purpose of recycling the medicine bottles, it's just to urge these people to take them on time." Du Rusong replied with a smile, "Sometimes these Africans don't care much about the medicines we distribute to them, and they don't take them when they take them back, but they will return them next time. Come and get it. So we came up with this method, allowing them to use the empty bottle after eating to replace the new medicine, which can be regarded as a means of urging them to take it.”

"But, wouldn't they just pour out the medicine and come get a new one?"

"Maybe, but Africans still cherish food in general. If something edible is thrown away, it will cause public outrage among the entire tribe. So as long as they take the vitamin tablets out of the bottle , the possibility of eating it will be much greater.”

"You really have a way." Li Shixi admired it from the bottom of his heart.

"Wisdom is forced out." Du Rusong smiled, "At the beginning, we also encountered a lot of setbacks. We couldn't help it. The cultural differences were too big. In addition, they were indeed behind us. Many problems were caused by us. Unexpected ones, you can only see the tricks. After a long time, you will find some experience."

Li Shixi nodded.He saw that Han Yujun was busy with his hands, turned his head and said to Du Rusong, "I'll help him", and ran over after speaking.

In the ward on the other side, it was also lively.

"Tia, come on, have a laugh!" Chu Xiao said to the little girl while holding the phone.At Li Qian's prompt, the little girl looked at the camera and grinned a happy smile.

"OK!" Chu Xiao pressed the shutter quickly, looking very satisfied.

After nearly a month of treatment, the little girl has changed a lot compared to when she came: her little face is rosy, and some flesh has grown on her limbs. She is no longer as pitiful as a dry wood stick.Moreover, under the care of Chu Xiao, Li Qian and others, the little guy's personality has become much more cheerful. Not only is he not afraid of strangers, he even learned a few simple English words from Chu Xiao.

"Oh, it's not easy." Li Qian walked to Chu Xiao's side, and sighed softly to Chu Xiao, "It's really lucky that Tia survived this time..."

Seeing Li Qian's emotional expression when she spoke, Chu Xiao knew that she probably recalled her childhood past again.Not wanting her to continue being sad, Chu Xiao decided to change the subject.He purposely pretended to sigh: "Yeah, how lucky Tia is, a smart doctor like me managed to get her to stay. Otherwise, alas..."

"Hey, are you proud of yourself?" Li Qian's attention was diverted as expected.

"Hey, no, I'm just saying that in the face of extraordinary people, you have to use extraordinary means. Look, isn't it very good now?"

"Crap, nonsense~" Li Qian pretended to be disdainful, but still laughed.

Just as the two were chatting and laughing, footsteps sounded beside her. It turned out that it was Tia's parents who came to pick her up.

"Congratulations, Tia has recovered a lot, as long as she eats on time in the future, there will be no problem." Chu Xiao said to the little girl's parents with a smile.

However, to Chu Xiao's surprise, Tia's father didn't show any happy expression, but just nodded slightly, while Tia's mother was still holding the son in her arms. Both Chu Xiao and Li Qian were keenly aware that the woman's There is a slight bulge in the abdomen - obviously, she has another child.

Tia's father pulled Tia from Chu Xiao's hand and walked out, and the woman followed quickly, without even saying thank you.But the little girl turned around and waved to Chu Xiao and Li Qian reluctantly.

Seeing the family of four walk out of the door, Chu Xiao turned his head, the dissatisfaction on his face was already evident: "You said, should we send Tia back?"

Li Qian understood what Chu Xiao meant, and she smiled wryly: "So what if I don't give it away? After all, they are her parents."

"But her mother is pregnant again! Tia can't have enough to eat when she has two children, and if she has another mouth, Tia will have to be sent back sooner or later! Can these people have to give birth?!" Chu Xiao was a little excited.

"This is our helplessness." Compared with Chu Xiao's excitement, Li Qian, who participated in the operation for the second time, showed a calmness that did not match her age, and there was even a trace of sadness in her calm tone, "We are fighting the evil Combat with their natural nature, and their stubborn thoughts. Sometimes we really find that we are powerless to change too much, but we still have to persevere, because as long as we keep working hard, everything will be better." Li Qian looked at Chu Xiao's face and showed a strong smile, "Do you know that there is a famous saying in our country, which is: But I want to be worthy of my heart."

The author has something to say: Among the films of Doctors Without Borders, the most seen ones are about saving children.I don't know if the situation there has improved over the years.I hope that every little life can get a certain quality of life, after all, life is only once.