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"When the fight against the epidemic is victorious, I will go home and marry you."
This is the promise of Ma Chao, who is struggling in the nucleic acid testing laboratory of the Third People's Hospital of Henan Province, to his wife.
Today, this is the third time that the newlyweds have postponed their marriage due to repeated support for epidemic prevention and control and work reasons.
A bridesmist officer who threw himself into the "epidemic" war
On the morning of July 31, 2021, Ma Chao, a bride-to-be groom who had finished his morning's work and was about to go home for the wedding, saw that the hospital was counting the registration list for the front-line nucleic acid collection work.
After thinking about it again, Ma Chao still reported his name.
Before leaving, the big guys were still teasing, "Chao'er, this time I will have to be a few days late to the groom's official." ”
As everyone knows, in the next month, the groom official, who has not yet become a groom, will devote all his time to the intense anti-epidemic work.
When the wave of the epidemic ended, the wedding of Ma Chao and his fiancée was once again put on the agenda.
Ma Chao's fiancée is a nursing staff at another hospital in Zhengzhou, and she is usually very busy at work, so the two discussed that since it was postponed, it would simply be postponed to November.
The wedding was pushed back and forth
On the evening of November 2, 2021, Zhengzhou City found 3 positive cases in routine nucleic acid testing.
The new battle horn has been sounded, and in this way, Ma Chao has once again thrown himself into the intense work, and the marriage date has once again been postponed.
On January 3, 2022, Ma Chao collected nucleic acid at the East District collection point, even if the cold wind froze him and he could not reach out, but his heart was "happy": this time he had planned his wedding date and was ready to marry his beloved girl.
Ma Chao, who had already left work, insisted on working overtime to sample the citizens who came to test nucleic acid at the collection point.
Unexpectedly, Ma Chao, who was full of joy and ready to get married, was once again "blocked" by the epidemic in Zhengzhou, and the busy figure once again appeared in the conventional nucleic acid collection window and laboratory.
Coming out of the lab and taking off protective clothing is a "relief"
During the epidemic, Ma Chao's longest working time was to stay in the laboratory for 8 hours, in order to complete the nucleic acid testing work faster and more efficiently, going to the toilet before entering the laboratory became a "habit", and almost no water was drunk during the testing process.
A set of protective clothing for medical staff will be used from the beginning of the work to the end, and the wearing and taking off of the protective clothing should be carried out in accordance with the biosecurity procedures, "on the one hand, it will save costs, on the other hand, it is more troublesome to wear and take off the protective clothing, and the speed of work will decrease when going out of the laboratory." Ma Chao said.
Because the protective clothing is more stuffy, and the laboratory is also relatively closed, often not a moment is a sweat, Ma Chao said with a smile: "There is no season in the laboratory, in the winter we are wearing short sleeves to go in, every time we come out of the laboratory to take off the protective clothing is a kind of 'relief'." ”
Ma Chao's daily work in the nucleic acid testing laboratory is to face nearly two thousand samples that need to be tested, twisting them open one by one and closing them one by one. The testers in the laboratory, they are the closest people to the virus, and every link cannot tolerate sloppiness.
At the end of each work, due to the long period of sitting, Ma Chao's shoulders and waist were stiff, and it was very difficult to raise his arms, but he said: "Nothing, this is what medical workers should do." ”
Allow her a solemn wedding
In addition to busy work, Ma Chao will often laugh at himself, and his mouth is a helpless bitter smile, but his heart is more indebted to his wife.
Two medical workers, due to different scheduling times, two people often go home one by one, and it is their norm to meet and say hello in the community, which is the epitome of countless double-doctor families fighting in the frontline of the fight against the epidemic.
To his fiancée, Ma Chao is sorry in his heart.
But he understands that as a medical worker, in an emergency, you should rush to the front line without hesitation.
Ma Chao said: "When the epidemic dissipates, I will definitely give her a solemn wedding." ”
He knew that this day was not far away.
(Edited by Xiong Ziwen and Li Yingxuan)