Source: People's Daily - Anhui Channel Original draft
Hefei, August 4 (Zhou Kun) She is engaged in the work of facing death while welcoming new students; she is almost 24 hours a day, a mobile phone is on standby 24 hours a day, and every incoming call may be a distress call. She is Yang Juan, the organ donation coordinator of Hefei First People's Hospital.
Many people feel unfamiliar with this profession, simply put, the role of the organ donation coordinator is to promote organ donation policies to the families of clinically confirmed brain-dead patients, and to coordinate the completion of organ donation work. Organ donation allows "life" to be extended in others, and Yang Juan interprets this job as a "life ferryman".
Yang Juan is instructing the donor's family to sign the donation confirmation registration form. Courtesy of Hefei First People's Hospital
In 2016, the First People's Hospital of Hefei officially established the Human Organ Acquisition Organization Team (OPO for short), which urgently needs a group of staff engaged in human organ donation coordination.
At this time, Yang Juan, still the deputy head nurse of the hospital's hepatobiliary surgery, is petite but hard-working, has her hair tied into a ponytail when working, speaks softly and softly, and has full affinity, so after the establishment of OPO, Yang Juan was selected by the hospital as the first batch of organ donation coordinators. That's five years.
However, years of nurse experience and professional enthusiasm did not facilitate Yang Juan's practical operation. Limited by the traditional concept of most people, in the first year, it was the exploration stage of organ donation coordination, the failure of coordination is the majority, the average coordination of 8, 9 cases, in order to succeed in 1 case, Yang Juan frankly said, questioned, rejected, let her full of frustration.
"Once I went to a rural family to coordinate, and the family had already agreed to donate organs, but when I got there, my relatives who had drunk alcohol saw my documents and materials, threw them all on the ground, and let me go." Yang Juan said that many times, they get a look that their relatives do not understand, and even reprimands and angry scolding.
But the power of life made her choose to persevere.
It was 2018, a 31-year-old retired soldier Hu Chen suffered brain death due to illness, and the elderly father took the initiative to contact the Red Cross and agreed to donate his son's organs. Finally, under the witness of the organ donation coordinator of the Anhui Provincial Red Cross Society, the experts of the organ acquisition organization of the First People's Hospital of Hefei Immediately performed organ harvesting surgery and successfully removed 1 liver and 1 pair of kidneys from Hu Chen to save three families.
Later, Yang Juan learned that one of the kidneys was transplanted to a child who had suffered from uremia for five years, so that the child with poor family conditions and urgent need of organ transplantation could regain his life. "At that moment, I personally felt the meaning of this job, the end of one life, can make three lives bloom again, so even if only one in a hundred times succeeds, I am willing to stick to it." 」 Yang Juan said.
Yang Juan, who is coordinating the work. Courtesy of Hefei First People's Hospital
Today, her phone, on standby 24 hours a day, is ready to rush to the hospital. Wherever Ms. Yang goes, she carries a work bag containing documents, work documents, clay and pens.
Once working, Yang Juan participated in almost the whole process of cooperating with the hospital to conduct assessments, jointly carrying out social data reviews, explaining donation information to family members, cooperating with family members to sign, as well as farewell ceremonies, handing over with transplant units, and handling funerals.
And in days when there was no coordination, she devoted all her energy to publicity. From the traditional concept of "the parents of the body's skin" to the active choice of "gifts at the end of life", Yang Juan has been engaged in organ donation coordinators for more than 5 years, and Yang Juan has truly felt that more and more people are gradually accepting the concept of organ donation after death. Now, from time to time, some citizens take the initiative to find Yang Juan to consult about donations, and even some donors' families have played the role of volunteer publicists.
"Many times I especially wish I were unemployed so that I would never have to face the pain of withering away from my life, but I was afraid that I would be unemployed and never have the opportunity to help others be born again." Yang Juan told reporters that the road to organ donation is still very long, and she will continue to move forward with hope, so that life can continue more possible.