Source: People's Daily Health Client Zhao Weide
The Spring Festival Gala skit "The Story of the Rest Area", starring Guo Donglin and others, has the theme of "paying tribute to the medical workers who are fighting in the frontline of the country". The People's Daily Health Client interviewed a number of medical staff in different places to learn that because of the particularity of the profession, almost every year the Spring Festival is spent in the hospital.
"The people who stay in the hospital these days are all seriously ill patients, and we can't do without doctors around, we work shifts in the hospital every day, and Chinese New Year's Eve is no exception." Tian Hongjun, a doctor in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Baogang Hospital in Inner Mongolia, told reporters that this Chinese New Year's Eve, and he ate Chinese New Year's Eve meal with his colleagues in the hospital.
Seriously ill patients are inseparable from doctors
"Our department will work shifts every day during the Spring Festival, 5 days a night shift, I just happened to be on duty at night Chinese New Year's Eve, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. the next morning, so this Chinese New Year's Eve meal was eaten with colleagues in the hospital." Tian Hongjun, a doctor in the department of respiratory and critical care at Baogang Hospital in Inner Mongolia, told reporters.
Tian Hongjun and his colleagues were on duty at the hospital. Courtesy of respondents
Tian Hongjun said, "As soon as the Spring Festival comes, the children who work outside the home have returned to their hometowns, so there are more people who bring the elderly to see the sick, and the department is busier." Moreover, during the New Year, patients with mild diseases basically went home, and the patients who stayed in the hospital were all seriously ill patients, and they were inseparable from doctors. ”
"Chinese New Year's Eve evening, according to the tradition of the hospital, dumplings will be distributed to the doctors and patients on duty in various departments, and on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the department organizes meals for everyone to order and gather together." Tian Hongjun told reporters that in addition to the duty personnel who stayed in the hospital for the New Year, there were also doctors who could not leave the field and graduate students who interned in the hospital. If you are from other flag counties in Baotou City, you usually drive home overnight to reunite with your family after your shift, and then rush back to the hospital the next day. "Doctor, everyone is basically used to this kind of life."
After the duty, Tian Hongjun usually uses the few remaining vacation time to skate and ski with his family. Tian Hongjun told reporters that there are many ethnic minorities in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, and there are still yurts in the park, and when it comes to the Spring Festival, many Mongolian brothers and sisters sing and dance in the park.
As soon as the quarantine is over, I will return to the hospital immediately on the third day of the Chinese New Year
"After returning from Xi'an on January 27, I was quarantined at home for a week, and after the isolation ended on the second day of the Chinese New Year, I would return to work immediately after the third day of the new year." Liang Shan, a nurse at the Hanzhong People's Hospital in Shaanxi Province, told reporters that she had just returned from Xi'an on January 27 and needed to be isolated at home for a week, but at the same time, she also gave herself and her family the opportunity to spend Chinese New Year's Eve at home, but as soon as the isolation ended, the third day of the New Year's Day would return to the hospital immediately, "More than 50 medical and nursing personnel in the hospital supported Xi'an for 40 days, and many jobs in the hospital were short of manpower." ”
On December 19 and December 24, 2021, Hanzhong People's Hospital sent two groups of medical teams with a total of 64 medical staff to support Xi'an's fight against the epidemic, of which Liang Shan was one of them. After 40 days of fighting, Liang Shan and her comrades returned safely to Hanzhong on January 27 and began home isolation.
"The work of the hospital is particularly busy, every year for the New Year, I need to be on duty, and since I worked, I only have the impression of eating Chinese New Year's Eve meals at home with my family, and almost all the other times I am on duty in the hospital, eating dumplings with colleagues." Ms. Liang said she had been working for 14 years, and in those 14 years, she had eaten 13 times Chinese New Year's Eve meals in the hospital, but she had become accustomed to it.
And this home isolation just gave Liang Shan the opportunity to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal at home with her family. "The special New Year goods we prepare for the Spring Festival here are bacon meat, various brine dishes, marinated chicken feet, chicken thighs, chicken gizzards, pork head, etc., which will be prepared before the Chinese New Year's Eve, which is a must-have dish for Chinese New Year's Eve evening." Liang Shan said.
Folk customs of Yangxian County, Shaanxi. Courtesy of respondents
Liang Shan's family is in Hanzhong Yang County, and the most lively Spring Festival activities in her hometown are sweeping endless and making social fires. Liang Shan told reporters that sweeping infinity is a rare folk culture phenomenon, only circulated in Andiao County, Hanzhongyang County, Shaanxi Province, and in the surrounding areas, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, people dress up as various theatrical characters, travel to people's homes or merchant shops, and do symbolic cleaning activities for their living places and family members.
While on duty at the high-speed rail station, the health room is not far away from people
"We do not have a holiday during the Spring Festival, and we need to be on duty at the Changyi High-speed Railway Station to help statistically check the information of people returning from different places." When not on duty, he treats patients in the village health room. Shandong Changyi village doctor Fang Chunmei (pseudonym) told reporters.
Fang Chunmei is a village doctor in a township in Changyi City, Weifang City, Shandong Province, and she has been working as a village doctor for 30 years. This spring, according to the arrangements of the superiors, Fang Chunmei needs to work with other medical personnel in the township to be responsible for the statistics and screening of returnees at the local high-speed rail station.
Fang Chunmei told reporters that during the Spring Festival, the train station was crowded, a large number of migrant workers from other places concentrated on returning to their hometowns, coupled with the recent severe situation of the local epidemic situation, as a rural doctor, it should be on top. "In accordance with the spirit of the provincial and municipal epidemic prevention and control work conference, the provincial supervision team stationed in Weifang will continue to carry out epidemic prevention and control supervision work during the Spring Festival in accordance with relevant requirements, and supervise medical institutions to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control in the form of secret visits." Fang Chunmei said.
According to the duty arrangement, Fang Chunmei will rush to the duty point at 8 o'clock in the morning, and it will basically end at 20 o'clock in the evening, requiring 12 hours of duty.
Fang Chunmei gave moxibustion to the villagers in the health room. Courtesy of respondents
"Illness can't be delayed, regardless of holidays, it has to be there at any time." Fang Chunmei said.