The touching young story of the 5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake

Jiangsu doctors treated more than 500 people a day. Local people sent eggs

Jiangsu medical team

They were busy until lunch at three or four in the afternoon

Oral: Dr. Fu Zan from the General Surgery Department of Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital at 17:00 on May 14

As soon as we got off the plane on the afternoon of the 13th, 106 medical staff from Jiangsu immediately rushed to Mianyang in eight buses carrying supplies. It rained non-stop and the temperature was a bit low. We finally arrived in Mianyang around 18:30. When we arrived in Mianyang, we stopped for a while and then continued our bumpy journey to Anxian County. More and more collapsed houses can be seen along the way, and there are also more and more crude earthquake-proof shelters built by local residents using snakeskin bags.

We arrived in An County around 20 o'clock. An County was severely affected, with water, power and gas outages, and most residents have been evacuated. Due to the lack of water and electricity, the rescue point can only perform simple treatments such as bandaging, infusion or oxygen delivery. There is no condition to perform emergency surgery. All patients must be quickly transferred to Mianyang for treatment after simple treatment. Our Jiangsu medical team had to turn around and go to Mianyang again.

At around 22:00, when we returned to Mianyang, doctors Zhao Hanlin, Jiang Kuirong and other general surgeons and I were ordered to quickly deliver more than 200,000 ml of blood packed with love and care brought from Jiangsu to the Mianyang Red Cross blood bank.

Mianyang’s rescue mission is very heavy. Major hospitals in Mianyang are already oversaturated, and patients from Beichuan, the hardest-hit area, are still being sent to Mianyang for treatment. Beichuan has fallen and the terrain is very complicated. The first responders can only carry the patient out, run a short distance, and then send the patient by ambulance to a temporary rescue point near An County for simple treatment, and then rush to Mianyang and distribute it to various medical institutions.

The Jiangsu medical team was divided into several teams and assigned to several hospitals in Mianyang city and surrounding counties and towns. Our Provincial People's Hospital is assigned to the Mianyang Third People's Hospital, which is a tertiary A-level hospital featuring psychiatric specialties. At around 23:00, as soon as we arrived at the Third Hospital, we immediately handed over the medical supplies donated by the hospital to our colleagues in the Third Hospital, hoping that these supplies could be used immediately for the affected compatriots who were anxiously waiting. Most of the patients are temporarily living in a simple earthquake-proof shed at the entrance of the hospital. The sterile dressings have basically been used up, and there is a long queue of people waiting to take X-rays.

At 7:50 in the morning on the 14th, our provincial medical rescue team formed a treatment team with local colleagues in the third hospital and worked together to engage in the intense and busy treatment work. I was busy until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and then I swallowed a little box lunch. Jiang Kuirong and I are currently helping patients undergo hemodialysis and help place dialysis tubes. These are three high school students who were transferred from Beichuan. Due to the collapse of the teaching building, their muscles were squeezed and necrotic. They successively developed "crush syndrome" and developed hemoglobinuria, leading to renal failure! We have performed lower limb decompression surgery on them in the afternoon. Two students were in serious condition. Although active treatment saved their lives, they may need amputation. The condition of another student has stabilized due to our timely rescue. Not far away, several experienced surgical nursing team members such as Xia Yun and Peng Yuhui were putting plasters, changing dressings, and infusions on the injured and sick patients who were anxiously queuing up. They were also providing psychological counseling to the patients. Farther away, two orthopedic surgeons, Wang Qing and Cai Weihua, were performing operations on patients with fractures. From morning to now, the operations were one after another, and they didn’t even have time to drink water. Because some people were injured too seriously, it was heartbreaking. , the doctors helped them perform operations with tears in their eyes and tried their best to save them. Two team members from the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shao Yongfeng and Zhu Quan, have been rescuing a middle-aged woman in her 40s with severe lung blast injury and respiratory failure since noon. The patient's life was once in critical condition and is now in danger.

There are too many injured and injured compatriots anxiously waiting for our treatment. Not to mention, another batch of patients have been transferred!

(Arranged by: Zhang Qunbuwei and Bi Xiaohong)

Local disaster-stricken people gave eggs to the medical team members

Hu Xiaoshu, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Health, appointed the national first aid expert team Team leader

This newspaper reported that as of yesterday evening, the Jiangsu medical team had treated more than 500 injured people in less than 24 hours after entering the disaster area, and many medical staff did not take a break.

At 8:00 last night, the Provincial Health Department reported the situation after the medical team went to Sichuan to enter the disaster area. According to the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Health, Captain Hu Xiaoshu was assigned by the Ministry of Health as the leader of the national emergency expert team and is responsible for the medical emergency command in Mianyang. The Ministry of Health also designated our province’s medical team to formulate a post-disaster epidemic prevention work plan.

Relatively speaking, the medical team in our province has a high technical level, and its key task is to rescue the seriously injured.

Eight surgeries were performed in a row in the morning

Yesterday, head nurse Lu Wei and chief physician of neurosurgery Jiang Jian of Drum Tower Hospital supported by Mianyang 520 Hospital told reporters that 70 surgeries were added yesterday. There are many new patients. Due to limited beds, many patients can only live in the corridor. Due to the large volume of surgeries, the hospital is now very short on surgical instruments. The heavy rain that lasted for several days finally stopped yesterday. Starting at 6 a.m., everyone started working intensively. “Because the road to Beichuan was opened, many patients from Beichuan came this morning. In less than a day, We received more than 70 new patients and performed 8 operations in one morning.”

People gave eggs to the medical team members

Mr. Lu’s main job in the hospital is to be responsible for registration. Regarding the condition of the patients, she told reporters that most of the patients are now in a low mood. "When these patients come, they are basically alone. They don't know if their families are safe. Seeing their appearance makes me feel very sad."

Dr. Jiang Jian said that what impressed him most was a middle-aged man who was having a meeting on the 7th floor of a local building in Beichuan when the earthquake occurred. He was not rescued until yesterday. In fact, his family members came to the hospital to look for him the day before yesterday. Because he had not been sent here at that time, they thought he had been killed and started crying in the hospital. Later, I still didn't give up, and ran to the hospital again yesterday to look for her, and finally I found her. The two of them hugged each other excitedly and cried loudly. In addition, the hospital also sent a child, only 11 years old, who crawled out of the rubble by herself. She was found by rescuers and sent to the hospital, but it was said that her parents were gone. Deputy Chief Physician Shi Xin, a member of the medical team of Zhongda Hospital and deputy director of the General Surgery Department, said that although the local disaster was severe, local people continued to send food and daily necessities such as boiled water, porridge, eggs, etc. to the medical team and the sick and wounded.

There is an urgent need for a large number of surgical instruments

Because food is in short supply in the disaster area, it is also difficult to provide food in the hospital. Head nurse Lu said: "The patients are usually given some steamed buns, and we eat them. Some corn paste, potatoes and so on. Many patients don’t have enough to eat, so we will give them some of our own food.” When asked what the hospital needs most at the moment, head nurse Lu said that it should actually be surgical equipment. "The injuries of the patients are relatively serious, and most of them require surgical treatment, such as bone reduction, incision, etc. The number of surgical instruments in the hospital can no longer be maintained for a long time." (Zhu Shu Bi Xiaohong)

I 50 medical ambulances from the province rushed to the disaster area

Our reporter rushed to the earthquake front line with the team

Our newspaper reported that "I announced the departure of the Jiangsu medical ambulance team!" At 11 o'clock yesterday morning, as Under the order of Vice Governor He Quan, our province formed an ambulance team consisting of 50 ambulances and 100 drivers overnight from Nanjing to the earthquake-stricken area in Sichuan.

At around 1:20 a.m. on the 14th, the Ministry of Health notified the Provincial Department of Health to organize a medical ambulance team to support the earthquake-stricken areas in Sichuan. After receiving the notice, the Provincial Health Department notified the health bureaus of various cities overnight and formed an ambulance fleet, including 5 ambulances each from Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, and Nantong, 4 ambulances each from Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Xuzhou, and Huai'an, and 4 ambulances each from Taizhou, Yancheng, and Lianyungang. 3 vehicles each.

The staff of the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention also spent a sleepless night, buying food, water, and daily necessities for the ambulance team overnight. The emergency vehicle was filled with various supplies, and the Provincial People's Hospital also sent a batch of medicines urgently needed by frontline doctors.

(Bi Xiaohong)

It is also reported that our young female reporter Yu Dandan was temporarily appointed yesterday to accompany the Jiangsu medical ambulance team to the Sichuan disaster area for interviews. She will travel through more than half of China, traveling day and night 2243 kilometers directly to the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area.

Yesterday morning our reporter Yu Dandan heard that the newspaper was going to send reporters to the earthquake area for interviews, so she took the initiative to volunteer. Due to time constraints, she did not have time to bring warm clothes before leaving, so she simply called her family. Embark on a journey. The reporter contacted Yu Dandan last night. She said that the convoy did not stop after it left at noon. Everyone only ate some bread and biscuits in the car to satisfy their hunger. Because it was a non-stop journey, she rarely drank water to avoid going to the toilet. "The 50 Jiangsu disaster relief ambulance teams were moving westward. Citizens waved to the team along the way, and the toll stations had green lights all the way." Despite the difficult journey, Yu Dandan said that he must successfully complete the reporting task. (Bi Xiaohong)

Other rescue teams

Nanjing House Safety Appraisal Team

This newspaper reported that yesterday, a four-person Nanjing house safety appraisal expert boarded the The flight departed for Chengdu at 8:50 pm. It is reported that this team will conduct professional appraisals of local houses that have not collapsed, so that people in the disaster area can return to safe homes as soon as possible. This is also the first house safety rescue team in the country to go to the disaster area.

According to Wang Shimin, deputy director of the Nanjing Housing Management Bureau, as soon as they got to work yesterday morning, they received a call from the local housing management department in Chengdu asking for help, saying that after the earthquake, people were generally worried that the safety of the buildings could not be guaranteed. , so they moved their homes to the streets, causing tens of thousands of people to gather in large and small squares in Chengdu. In order to allow people to return home as soon as possible, the Chengdu Housing Authority implores the Nanjing Housing Authority to send housing appraisal experts to lend a helping hand to the local area. "After receiving the call for help, we immediately held a special meeting and decided to dispatch an expert team composed of four people." The reporter saw at yesterday's departure ceremony that the rescue team carried a lot of professional instruments for safety assessment. The total value of the equipment exceeds 1 million yuan. (Ma Zuobo)

Jiangsu Electric Power Rescue Team

This newspaper reported that more than 50 rescue team members, 5 power generation vehicles, 5 engineering rescue vehicles, 4 support vehicles... passed through Jiangsu Province The power company made emergency arrangements overnight. At 1:00 yesterday afternoon, disaster relief personnel from Lianyungang, Suqian, Suzhou, Xuzhou and Nanjing power supply departments rushed to Sichuan with equipment. In two days, they will start rescue work in the disaster area.

At noon yesterday, more than 50 rescue team members from Nanjing Yuhuatai District Power Supply Company were making preparations for departure. Xiao Xijin, a member of the emergency repair team of Nanjing Electric Power Company, had been busy all morning. At this time, he sent a text message to his wife: Wife, when you see this text message, I will already be leaving for Sichuan. At 5 o'clock this morning, after receiving the notice, I rushed directly from the construction site to the company. You should take care of yourself at home alone. I will come back to accompany you and your son as soon as I complete the task. Xiao Xijin works at a power grid construction site in Xianlin, Nanjing. Because the construction site is far from home and the tasks are heavy, he has to live and eat at the construction site every day. He has not seen his wife and children for half a month. (Xu Yuanyuan Yang Juan)

300 special police and fire fighters went to Sichuan

This newspaper reported that in accordance with the relevant arrangements and requirements of the Ministry of Public Security and the Provincial Public Security Department, at about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau 189 special police officers, 11 special fire service members, and 200 people flew to the earthquake-stricken areas in Sichuan to carry out earthquake rescue and relief work. According to the latest news, after 200 police officers set off yesterday morning, the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau sent another 100 fire service members to the disaster area. Together with the 80 police officers who rushed to the disaster area on May 13, the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau has currently dispatched 380 special police and fire service police.

As soon as the footsteps of the rescuers stopped in front of the ruins, the voices of more than 10 children came out: "Uncle, save me..." Immediately afterwards, there was a cry. Such screams and cries are always heard from the ruins of Beichuan County middle school, kindergarten, and Qushan Primary School, and they always tug at people's hearts. Yesterday, we walked 22 kilometers into Beichuan County, Mianyang City. We have been blaming ourselves for our weak strength and weeping for the children's heart-wrenching cries for help...

Children's screams came from the ruins. A cry for help

The two 3-story teaching buildings of Qushan Primary School are close to the mountain behind them. After the earthquake, the falling rocks crushed the buildings into two floors, and the first floor sank directly into the ground. .

Among them, the roof of another building was uncovered and leaning diagonally in front of the building.

In the ruins, there is a young body of a child, pressed in the deformed cement and steel bars; under the ruins, a child's cry for help is faintly heard... He gets into the deformed building and follows the sound from some Looking through the gap, I saw a child sitting with his upper body upright in the rubble because his legs were pressed down, and a child was leaning next to his dead classmate...

After the earthquake occurred at 2:28 pm on the 12th, , these children have remained in this posture for a full 48 hours as of 3 pm yesterday. The children have been relying on the water sent by their parents to survive until now.

When the earthquake hit Zhang Li, a student in Class 1 of Grade 5, several classmates around him were all hit by falling steel bars and cement blocks. When he woke up, he found that his right thigh was firmly stuck. The three classmates lying next to him were no longer breathing, and the body of one classmate had been lying on his thigh.

In a ruins only 3 meters away from Zhang Lizheng, a child's lower body was firmly stuck. As soon as he heard someone talking on the ground, he stretched out a small hand and shouted: "Uncle, help." I..."

Li Yue, from Class 3, Grade 5, also had her right leg stuck, so she had to sit in the ruins of the building on the right, with the bodies of three classmates lying next to her. People When they went to deliver water or find a way to rescue her, the little girl said: "Leave me alone, save the classmates below first!"

In the space of less than 50 centimeters under the ruins, the voices of more than 10 children were heard. Cries for help and requests for water.

The SWAT was powerless

Crying loudly

In the past two days, these children trapped under the rubble have seen many rescuers. In addition to their parents and local In addition to villagers and rescue workers, we also saw special police from Tianjin.

200 special police officers rushed to the scene for rescue at 6 pm on the 13th. As of 2 pm yesterday, they had successfully rescued more than 400 people trapped in Beichuan County, Jingjia Village, Kuzhuba Reservoir, power station and other places. Trapped people. However, he was unable to do anything because the only rescue tools he had were a shovel and a steel drill.

The special police were helpless to deal with the children who were trapped in the rubble and asked for help. They did not dare to pry open the floor slabs for fear that the whole building would collapse; nor did they dare to use rough methods to carry out rescue operations. The SWAT officers were helpless and wept as they comforted the children and burst into tears as they walked out of the playground.

The villagers cried

"I want to die with my children"

Nine people, including Yu Yunxian, He Jiaxing, and Zhu Yunneng, are all survivors from villages near the county seat. From the first day I heard about the earthquake, I ran around the county. In addition to looking for my children and relatives, I also actively carried out self-rescue.

Also from the first day, they discovered this group of primary school students trapped in the rubble. They contacted the militia and the first batch of rescue officers and soldiers who rushed to the scene. However, every hope brought them disappointment again and again. Yesterday afternoon, when they saw the special police officers leaving with tears in their eyes again, they could no longer control themselves. They found steel drills, jacks and other tools, and cried in front of the ruins: "We will die with these children!" After much effort, they had to give up.

Wang Chuan, who came to Beichuan from Chongqing, originally came to look for his wife who was working here, but was surprised to learn that his wife had returned home safe and sound. But after seeing this tragic scene, Wang Chuan thought: "We are all here anyway, so let's help with something." So, among the rescuers, there was one more person who extended a helping hand in time. He found a jack from the hardware store where the house was empty, and went to Qushan Elementary School alone to rescue him. Until yesterday afternoon, when another group of special police from Chongqing arrived, Wang Chuan was still busy beside the trapped student Li Yue.

Peng Jun, who came to look for the child, shouted that he would not agree with his 11-year-old son, so he wandered in front of the ruins every day, sometimes using a shovel to pry, sometimes using a jack to support him. However, the odds of success have always been zero.

The rescue team lamented

There is no large equipment

Yesterday at 4pm, a group of fire fighters from Shaanxi entered Beichuan County and were directly taken away by the villagers. Go to Qushan Primary School.

Firefighting officers and soldiers wearing red rescue uniforms, armed with chainsaws, demolition pliers and other equipment, worked hard to rescue the people in front of the ruins, but they were still unable to do anything. After an expert surveyed the scene, he believed that large-scale machinery and equipment were needed to remove the ruins layer by layer before successfully rescuing the trapped children. However, due to the continued aftershocks yesterday, all roads entering the county have been blocked by large rocks and sand, and the bridge in front of the county no longer exists. Vehicles carrying large machinery and equipment cannot drive to the front of the school at all.

When we left the scene at 5 pm, this group of fire officers and soldiers were still trying to figure out a solution in front of the ruins. "We must not let the children be crushed like this." On the road out of the county, several Shaanxi rescue team members wearing "Xianyang Firefighting" on their heads were heading to the school carrying a large chainsaw.