On December 10, 2023, a ninety-six-year-old Chinese lady passed away in New York, triggering spontaneous mourning from countless people.
She is the winner of the first "Moving China" and the first person in China to fight AIDS. But she was forced to leave overseas in her 80s and live on a subsistence allowance of 600 yuan a month.
Gao Yaojie was born in a large family in Gaozhuang, Shandong Province in 1927, and her ancestors were landlords for 13 generations.
When she practiced medicine, she always carried a heart full of compassion and compassion, and soon became a doctor who was respected and trusted by the locals.
But the torture of fate always comes unexpectedly.
When the tide of 1966 came, Gao Yaojie, who was born in a landlord's family, was escorted to the fight, and the crazy people who lost their minds knocked her down with punches and punches, and after bleeding and being sent to the hospital, she had to have three-quarters of her stomach removed.
The morgue became her shelter, and the suffering affected her thirteen-year-old son, who did not escape prison, causing her son to be estranged from his mother.
Ten years long, she got through it.
After resuming work, Gao Yaojie, who was in her fifties, readjusted her body and mind, immediately put herself into work, and still lived up to her duty as a doctor.
In the 80s, he was also received by Deng Gong, who could have gained fame and fortune and enjoyed his old age in peace, but in 1996, the appearance of a female patient completely changed Gao Yaojie's life.
That day, Gao Yaojie went to another hospital for consultation and met a female patient, extremely emaciated, with a high fever that did not go away, and dark purple spots appeared on her skin. "Is it AIDS?" As soon as this thought flashed, it was denied by other doctors. At that time, AIDS was still new to us.
But Gao Yaojie, with the acumen of a doctor, did not let go of any possibility of tracing the source, and finally discovered a surprising fact that the peasant woman was indeed infected with AIDS, and the cause of the infection was not the sexual behavior that people often believe, but the result of blood transfusion, that is, AIDS can also be transmitted through blood.
Gao Yaojie withstood a lot of pressure, used her little foot to visit AIDS villages, and found that the so-called "plasma economy" induced a large number of villagers to sell blood to support their families, and many farmers were infected with AIDS.
In an unforgettable scene, in 2000, Gao Yaojie entered a small village, "You come down, you come down!" The milky cry led people to a dilapidated thatched hut, where the woman's head hung in the air, and her two-year-old daughter was holding her mother's leg and crying under her feet.
It turned out that the heroine was infected with AIDS, and when she found out that her daughter was also infected, she was desperate and went to a dead end.
The tragic reality made Gao Yaojie pour her attention on AIDS orphans again. She became the first to offer care for AIDS orphans.
She shared the survey data with the media and published popular science books on HIV/AIDS prevention at her own expense to help AIDS orphans. She said that this situation will spread throughout the country and will be a national disaster.
In this process, she discovered the evil consequences of the "plasma economy", Gao Yaojie offended many people, she was suppressed everywhere, but she was never discouraged. Write a couplet on the wall, "I hope everyone is healthy, why don't I be poor."
In 2003, Gao Yaojie was selected as the first "Moving China" Person of the Year, and received the award on the same stage as Yang Liwei.
When the winner "Gao Yaojie" was announced, the thick door slowly opened, one meter six, seventy-seven years old, gray hair, Gao Yaojie appeared on the stage, it was already a shocking picture, next, she staggered down the steps, her body trembled, and she almost fell, the host Bai Yansong reached out to her to help, she first looked up, and then waved her hand lightly to refuse, and the audience suddenly burst into thunderous applause.
The stubborn Gao Yaojie walked steadily to the middle of the stage, and this way, she walked like a journey against AIDS.
Such a faltering old man, with profound knowledge, rational thinking, and extraordinary will, dispelled people's prejudices and fears. With her mother's love and selfless enthusiasm, she warmed the helplessness of the weak.
Gao Yaojie's kindness has also spread overseas, and many people have given her a thumbs up. On April 20, 2007, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 38980 "Gao Yaojie" to commemorate her great love.
There is no trace in the sky, and the swallows have flown by.
Gao Yaojie's biggest wish in her later years was to record the facts she had interviewed from her years of traveling through the countryside and villages into a book. However, she was blocked and suppressed by many parties for this, they did not allow her to write the truth, and only wanted her to shut up or even disappear.
In 2009, Gao Yaojie, who was 82 years old, was full of illness, but had to leave overseas as a visiting scholar in her last years.
She said that she was not afraid of death, and just wanted to preserve the truth she knew about the fight against AIDS before she died, and compile it into a book and publish it to others, otherwise she would not be blind to death. She also said, "I will never discredit my homeland".
She had already left a will, willing to sprinkle her ashes in the Yellow River in her hometown.
So far, how many people in China know that in a distant foreign land, there is an old man who has been persistently paying for his wishes, every word she records, is a race against time, she has countless reasons to give up, but she chose to persevere, and lasted until the moment when everyone woke up.
The old man is gone, but her integrity, love and tenacity will go down in history, the old man is gone, but everything she has done, there is a planet named after her in the sky that can be seen.
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