Since 1981 Health School

  Chapter 126 Deadly intestinal obstruction

   While Chen Qi and the others were busy with the free clinic, there was a sudden noise from the crowd:

   "Let's make way, let's make way, hurry up, people are going to die here, let's get in line."

  I saw a few young people rushing over carrying a patient on a bamboo reclining chair, their faces full of anxiety.

  Ms. Fang was the first to rush forward: "What's the matter, what's the matter?"

   "Doctor, hurry up and take a look at my elder brother. He suddenly complained of a stomachache today, and the pain was unbearable. We think it may be appendicitis. Don't you have a doctor from the People's Hospital here, and I would like to trouble you to take a look."

   "Appendicitis?"

  The people around became anxious when they heard it. People in the mountains also called appendicitis "intestinal abscess", which is a terminal disease. They heard that doctors in the city can perform surgery to save their lives.

  The problem is that people in the mountains do not have this condition. After appendicitis, they can only wait to die, and they will die in pain.

  Everyone expressed sympathy for the man in the bamboo lounge chair:

   "Poor thing, dying at such a young age."

   "This seems to be Fu Dagen from the Lingxia Brigade. He is a good hand at work. I didn't expect to suffer from such a disease."

   "Don't quarrel, don't quarrel, maybe the doctors at the People's Hospital can solve it."

  When Chen Qi heard that he had appendicitis, he was no longer in a hurry. How could the patient die with this disease? Isn't making an appendix as simple as killing a chicken?

  When he went up to meet him, several mountain people suddenly knelt down:

   "Doctor, please save my brother. My brother is still young. He still has four children who are underage. He will die and his family will not be able to survive."

   This kneeling startled everyone, and even the interns who were doing the free clinic next to them stopped what they were doing and surrounded them one after another.

  Chen Qi grabbed it:

   "Don't kneel, don't kneel, it's a new era now, we don't follow the old society, we want everyone to be equal, we have something to talk about, and diseases are easy to cure, come, let me check first."

  The patient was lying there moaning all the time, his facial expression was also a little restless, and he would vomit from time to time, and continued to hum after vomiting.

  The matter was urgent, Chen Qi didn't talk nonsense, he pulled off his clothes and started to palpate directly with his hands.

  The doctor at the commune health center next to him was anxious: "Doctor Chen, our health center can't perform appendix surgery, what should we do?"

  Chen Qi's complexion had already darkened at this time. After touching for a long time, he looked at the other students:

   "You all come and palpate to see what disease it is?"

  Wang Shannong, Lan Lijuan, and the others are all rather strange. How can a simple appendicitis be palpated? Isn't this basic operation?

  But the squad leader said there must be something wrong, so they all stretched out their hands to press on the patient's abdominal pain, and when they pressed, they all frowned.

  Chen Qi said to several doctors in the health center: "You guys also come to palpate, this is a rare opportunity, to see if it is appendicitis?"

  Ding Bitao asked in a low voice:

   "Second brother, this patient has no tenderness at the McBurney's point, but there is obvious tenderness and rebound pain in the middle abdomen. Moreover, I seem to feel a hard lump. It doesn't look like appendicitis."

  Wang Shannon also agreed:

   "Although appendicitis can also cause pain around the navel, it is impossible to have no pain at all in the lower right abdomen, and the hardness is very strange. Could there be something wrong with the intestines?"

  Everyone chattered and started to discuss. The family members next to me were very anxious, but they didn't dare to rush. They looked eagerly at the senior doctors of the People's Hospital.

  Chen Qi looked at the anxious family members and asked, "Did your eldest brother **** or fart today?"

  The family members didn't know, and they all looked at the patient together.

   Fu Dagen, who was humming in pain, was speechless and just shook his hands to show that there was no stool or fart.

  Everyone is a medical student, and immediately realized: "Is this intestinal obstruction?!"

  The family members were confused, "What is intestinal obstruction?"

  The doctor at the commune health center next to him became even more anxious when he heard this: "Ah, intestinal obstruction means that the intestines are blocked. This disease is fatal. It's more serious than appendicitis. It's definitely dead!"

  Boom~~~~

  As soon as it was said that the intestines were tightly stuffed, the surrounding people also became anxious:

   "Ah, the intestines are blocked, and the stool cannot come out. There are too many people suffering from this disease in difficult times, and none of them can survive."

   "Yes, yes, many people died of this disease in our village in those few years."

  In difficult times, common people eat tree bark and grass roots, including Guanyin soil. Most of them die not from malnutrition, but from intestinal obstruction caused by the indigestion of the food they eat, and finally they die alive.

  The mountain people who have experienced that era all have fresh memories, and they have all seen it with their own eyes, and understand the danger of this disease.

  When the family members heard it, they all sat down on the ground, and the women and children who followed behind began to cry loudly. For a while, the crying was louder than the loudspeaker.

  The cadres of the commune also sighed and shook their heads in embarrassment.

  Lan Lijuan quietly touched Chen Qi's arm:

   "Squad leader, the People's Hospital for intestinal obstruction can be cured, should we send them there as soon as possible?"

  Chen Qi shook his head:

"It's too late to go to the city. Take a bullock cart on Henglu to Pingshui, and then take a car from Pingshui to the city. There is not a day when you can't get there. Think about the road we came here. You can't stand the bumps all the way. I'm afraid the patient I can't hold it any longer."

  Intestinal obstruction is an emergency operation and requires immediate surgery. There are no roads in the mountains, and people sitting in bullock carts are staggering, and they are probably dead.

   Moreover, after an operation, plus hospitalization expenses, the expenses are not affordable for the mountain people. The lack of money is the biggest reason for the mountain people not to go to the city to see a doctor.

   When the little girl heard this, she felt unwilling: "Then what should we do? Should we just watch him die?"

  Chen Qi gave her a blank look: "You forgot that we are best partners, a small intestinal obstruction is nothing to worry about."

  Lan Lijuan didn't understand the meaning of these words, she blinked and looked at Chen Qi.

  I saw Chen Qi stepping up,

   "Okay, stop howling. Although the intestinal obstruction is severe, we are here. The comrades in the health center will help me. Go to clean up a clean room and come out immediately. Remember to fully disinfect it."

  Everyone looked over in astonishment, and the doctors in the health center doubted their ears:

   "Doctor Chen, you mean, you're going to have an operation for intestinal obstruction?"

   "How is this possible? We don't have an operating room, no equipment, no equipment, no medicine, no anesthetist, how do you do this operation?"

  Chen Qi picked up his big backpack and took out several sterile bags from it:

   "Did you see, I brought all the surgical medicines and instruments, just in case of emergency, hurry up, if this patient drags on, there will be no cure, I have everything."

  (end of this chapter)