He is not Chinese, but a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
He came to China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and used his superb medical skills to save lives and help the injured. In Gegong Village, where he walked by carrying a medicine box, there is still a pair of couplets circulating.
"Hua Tuo reincarnated Dr. Bai and Ge Gong reappeared as Dr. Black."
The "black doctor" in the couplet is none other than The doctor Ke Dihua from India.
Ke Dihua left the best years to China. He could have left, but chose to hold on until the last moment of his life...
On December 9, 79 years ago, Ke Dihua's life was forever fixed in the cruel war years at the age of 32.
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Internationalist warrior Ke Dihua
On July 7, 1937, China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, and the development of the war immediately attracted the attention of the whole world. At the end of the year, a letter from Judd was sent to the desk of India's Congress leader, Jawaharlal Nehru. In this letter, Zhu De wrote: Due to the tense war and the lack of medical treatment, the Eighth Route Army is facing serious difficulties, and hopes that India can provide material and medical assistance.
As one of the leaders of India's national independence movement, Nehru closely follows the situation in China and is willing to help China. Subsequently, the Indian Congress Party passed a resolution to immediately form a small medical team to go to China.
On September 17, 1938, an Indian medical team of five doctors arrived at the Guangzhou pier. Amazingly, one of the five Indian doctors could be said to be a simple Chinese, a 28-year-old Indian youth who had a Chinese name shortly after coming to China, Ke Dihua.
Ke Dihua's original name was Dewakanat Santaram Kodinis. He was born on October 10, 1910 in Shorapur, northwestern India. In 1936, he graduated with honors from the Grant Medical College in Mumbai and was actively preparing for admission to the Royal Society of Surgeons. It was at this time that he learned that the Congress Party was about to send a medical team to aid China. Before he could inform his family, Ke dihua applied to the committee.
Young Ke Dihua accompanied the medical team to war-torn China. During the nearly five-month trek, Ke Dihua and others traveled to Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Yan'an and other places, and finally arrived at the Bethune School in Gegong Village, Tang County, Hebei Province, on August 17, 1940, on the front line of the Jin-Cha-Ji Anti-Japanese Front.
A month later, the second phase of the Hundred Regiments War was about to begin. The great battle was imminent, and Ke Dihua, who learned the news, found Jiang Yizhen, who was the principal of Bethune School at the time, and asked to go to the front line of the battlefield to treat the wounded. To his surprise, Jiang Yizhen resolutely rejected his application. Because Ke Dihua contracted tapeworm disease shortly after his arrival, although he had been treated for a long time, Jiang Yizhen was still worried that he could not withstand high-intensity work.
However, for Ke Dihua, who had not yet participated in a major battle, he regarded participating in this battle as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. During the period of arrival at the anti-Japanese front, he witnessed many young faces who did not return after rushing to the battlefield because they could not be treated in time. Thinking of the soldiers in front, Ke Dihua looked for Jiang Yizhen again and again, saying that he must go to the line of fire to perform the duties of a doctor.
Chestnut Dragon Pond
Secretary-General of the Bethune Spiritual Research Society
He said: "Bethune said that the medic had to be with the soldiers, and he had to go to the front line. Isn't our school named after 'Bethune'? Then we have to do what Bethune says! ”
In the face of Ke Dihua's repeated requests, Jiang Yizhen finally agreed. However, the condition is: can not directly participate in the line of fire ambulance, can not work for more than 10 hours continuously.
In order to get as close as possible to the wounded, the medical station where he was located was only one step away from the line of fire. When the fighting was at its most intense, many wounded were continuously carried to the field ambulance station where Ke Dihua was located. In the simple operating room, in order to rescue more wounded, Ke Dihua did not close his eyes for three days and three nights. He had been fighting in the ambulance, his eyes were already covered with blood, and Jiang Yizhen's instructions had long been forgotten. In the tens of days of rescue work, the roving medical team led by Ke Dihua traveled to various places in the line of fire, rescuing and treating more than 800 wounded. Looking at the lives he had saved with his own hands, Ke Dihua showed a knowing smile.
When Ke Dihua returned to the school station after completing the rescue mission, a telegram surprised him, which was an order that he could not accept! The cable conveyed the indian side's request: Please ask Ke Dihua and his teammates who are still in China to return to China immediately. According to the previous plan, the medical team's stay in China was only one year, and Ke Dihua had been serving in China for more than two years.
There are very few doctors in the Eighth Route Army, and there are indeed very few real Western doctors. There are very few Western medicines that really come out of a class. When Ke Dihua saw this situation, he simply could not cope with the tense and frequent battles.
In Ke Dihua's view, in addition to saving lives and helping the injured, foreign medical teams should also cultivate outstanding medical personnel for the Eighth Route Army and the base areas and improve the medical conditions in the base areas. Therefore, Ke Dihua chose to stay in China and assumed the position of teacher of the Bethune School and president of the Bethune International Peace Hospital.
At this time, although Ke Dihua could use Chinese to communicate with the wounded about the condition, he was still far from the level of using Chinese to write teaching materials to teach students. To this end, in the early days of his teaching, in order to better teach, a pamphlet he wrote himself in Chinese, English, and Indian translation was inseparable from him all day. And in order to ensure teaching time, Ke Dihua and the comrades of the Bethune School also jointly developed a teaching model that was later called "armed class" and "march class".
At the same time, at the Bethune International Peace Hospital, a series of fruitful reforms were also implemented in an orderly manner under the impetus of Ke Dihua.
Chen Yuen
Former curator of the Bethune Ke Dihua Memorial Hall in Tang County, Hebei Province
For example, the teaching internship system established by Ke Dihua and the system of arranging the class of recuperators. In the one year that Ke Dihua was the president, the hospital treated more than 3,300 wounded and sick people and more than 1,600 surgical treatments. It created the best effect of treatment in our rear hospital in the anti-Japanese base area behind the enemy's rear.
While treating the wounded and sick of the troops, Ke Dihua also served the local villagers with their superb medical skills. For the villagers of Gegong Village who lived in that era, a doctor from a foreign country walked the streets carrying a medical box, which was a familiar scene at that time. Because of his dark skin, the men, women and children of the village affectionately called him "Black Doctor". Many patients, who were regarded as incurable, recovered after Ke Dihua's diagnosis and treatment. In Gegong Village, there is still such a couplet, "Hua Tuo reincarnated Dr. Bai, Ge Gong reappeared as Dr. Black".
After working in the Jin-Cha-Ji base area for more than a year, Ke Dihua not only won the love of the military and people in the base area by virtue of his selfless work and superb medical skills, but also won the admiration of a Chinese girl. The Chinese girl, Guo Qinglan, works as a nurse teacher at Bethune School. Because Guo Qinglan's English is very good, the two people working together in the school have slowly had more contact and communication. With the passage of time, the feelings between the two have become deeper and deeper.
Guo Qinglan
Ke Dihua's widow
He never took much care of himself and cared so much about the wounded and sick. Our teachers were very concerned about him and hoped he would pay attention, but no, he was too busy to take care of anything, so he went to the doctor.
The heavy workload caused Ke Dihua's health to deteriorate. Nie Rongzhen, then commander of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, had planned to arrange a consultation for him. However, on the day of the consultation, an emergency operation kept Ke Dihua busy for a whole day, missing the matter of treating himself. Nie Rongzhen suggested that he rest for a while, or go to Hong Kong or India for treatment. But in the end, Ke Dihua was still busy with work and politely resigned Nie Rongzhen's suggestion.
On December 8, 1942, after a hard day's work, Ke Dihua returned home with a cold breath, and began to write his lecture notes every night under the oil lamp. Late that night, his illness recurred, and unlike before, this time the onset lasted throughout the night. Principal Jiang Yizhen and his colleagues who rushed to the rescue used all conceivable methods, but they still could not stop the deterioration of their condition. In the early morning of the next day, Ke Dihua, an Indian doctor who aided China and a member of the Communist Party of China, passed away in Gegong Village.
This year, Ke Dihua was only 32 years old, and he did not leave a word before his death, people just know that the last thing he did before his death was to write teaching materials for the students of the Wei School.
After Ke Dihua's death, Chairman Mao Zedong personally inscribed an elegy for him: Dr. Ke Dihua, an Indian friend, came to China from afar to aid the anti-Japanese resistance, worked in Yan'an north China for five years, healed the wounded, died of overwork and illness, lost an arm in the whole army, and lost a friend of the nation. Dr. Ke Dihua's internationalist spirit is something we should never forget.
In more than four years, Ke Dihua saved thousands of lives with a pair of hands. During the most difficult years in the anti-Japanese base areas, he made outstanding contributions to the improvement of medical conditions in the border areas.
"Victory in the War of Resistance" is an inscription given by Ke Dihua to students on January 28, 1941, when the first graduates of bethune Health School graduated and were about to be sent to the anti-Japanese front.
After 2 years of Ke Dihua's sacrifice, his wish was finally realized.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Text Editor: Dong Siyun Title Image Source: Visual China Photo Editor: Su Wei
Source: Author: National Memory