Guang'anmen Hospital of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences issued an obituary on December 21, and Comrade Duan Shengru, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, an expert with special allowances from the State Council, an expert in central health consultation, and the chief physician of Guang'anmen Hospital of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, died at 9:40 on December 18, 2023 in Beijing at the age of 102.
Duan Shengru was born on February 22, 1921 in a poor family in Xiluo Township, Nanchang County, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from the Medical Department of Jiangxi Medical College in 1948 and worked in the Department of Surgery in the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi Medical College after graduation.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Duan Shengru successively served as a lecturer at Jiangxi Medical College and an attending physician at the Affiliated Hospital. Duan Shengru participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1952, worked in the First Base Hospital of the First Branch of the Chinese People's Volunteers, and served as the leader of the Jiangxi surgical medical team to resist US aggression and aid Korea. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1954.
In 1955, Duan Shengru was transferred to the Beijing Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences) to respond to the national call for the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine and study Xi Chinese medicine. In 1956, he was taught by Mr. Du Ziming, a famous old Chinese medicine doctor, and systematically learned Xi Chinese medicine orthopedic skills. Since 1965, Duan Shengru has successively served as deputy director, director, chief physician and senior researcher of the Department of Orthopedics of Guang'anmen Hospital, Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ministry of Health, and has been responsible for central health care for a long time.
In 1982, Duan Shengru's academic paper "Research on the Treatment of Carpal Scaphoid Fracture by Cardboard Compression Pad Method" won the "National Ministry of Health Science and Technology Achievement Award" Class B Award. Duan Shengru is the editor-in-chief of medical works such as "Overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine Osteopathic Experience" and "Duan Shengru Osteopathic Massage Experience", and has written academic papers such as "Closed Reduction Treatment of Rotational Dislocation Fractures of the Lateral Condyle of Humerus". "Duan Shengru Osteopathic Massage Experience" has become a reference book for traditional Chinese medicine orthopaedic massage physicians in clinical work, and has been included in the "National Famous Old Chinese Medicine Experience Collection Series".
Duan Shengru is the author of a book series
Duan Shengru has successively served as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese Journal of Surgery, the editor of the Beijing Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a member of the Orthopaedic Society of the Beijing Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the sixth director of the Beijing Branch of the All-China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the chairman of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Branch of the Beijing Branch of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine, and a judge of the Review Committee of Major Chinese Medicine Scientific and Technological Achievements of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He brought TCM orthopaedic manipulation treatment abroad and provided diagnosis and treatment services for international dignitaries. In 1979, he went to the Nepal Medical Association for academic exchanges, and his academic report "Cardboard Compression Pad Method for the Treatment of Carpal Scaphoid Fracture" was well received by his peers. Since 1987, he has been invited by the Hong Kong Chinese Medicine Therapy Association and the Orthopaedic and Traumatology Association to give lectures and guide clinical treatment in Hong Kong.
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Rescue the wounded in a hail of bullets
Duan Shengru is also a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and he recalled in the oral history "100-year-old "Medical Soldier" Duan Shengru to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea":
On the first evening of our entry into North Korea, the ravine where we were located was heavily bombed by nine US planes, killing a head nurse and a wounded man instantly. When I went out of the house the next morning, I saw a bomb crater, and there were as many as 47 of them, but the Americans did not let us retreat, and as the leader of the Jiangxi surgical medical team to resist US aggression and aid Korea, I knew that I had a heavy responsibility. Every day and night, we hear the roar of American reconnaissance planes and bombers overhead and the piercing howls of shells as they land. Whenever there was a war on the front line, truckloads of wounded would soon be pulled to the base hospital, and I had to immediately check the injuries and organize medical personnel to enter the intense and orderly work of treating the wounded.
From the day I entered Korea until November 1953, I could hear the roar of American reconnaissance planes and bombers buzzing in the sky overhead and the piercing howls of shells as they landed. Once the war on the front line starts, a large number of wounded will soon be sent to the field hospital, and the hospital where I am located is the one on the front line.
The principle of treatment in field hospitals is different from that in local hospitals, and it is important to know that the wounded in the field are pulled to the base hospital one by one, while the patients in the local hospitals come to seek medical treatment one by one. The base hospital stipulates that the wounded who can be cured in a week will not be transferred back to the country, so as not to reduce the number of troops too much. Most of the soldiers were wounded by bombs or shells, and there were almost no gunshot wounds, and our main job was to expand and clean the wounds of the wounded, and the debridement must be very thorough, and no rags, cotton wool and soil could be left in the wounds, so as not to cause tetanus or gas gangrene. This is much more complex than the management of debridement surgeries that are occasionally encountered clinically in domestic hospitals. Seriously injured persons who are in danger of death during transport are not transferred back to China, but remain in the hospital for rescue. We operated on the wounded day and night.
American planes circled over their heads, dropping several bombs from time to time nearby, and the threat of death remained everywhere despite the cover of the jungle. For safety, the transshipment is carried out at night. As soon as it gets dark, the hospital ambulance staff immediately put the wounded on the train, usually with the head nurse to escort them, and carry first-aid equipment and medicines, and arrive at the Wulongbei Hospital in Dandong City before dawn. The head nurse of the field hospital is a platoon-level cadre, and the skill level of treating the wounded is very high, and they are all personnel who will soon be promoted to medical assistants. In this hospital closest to the front line, we have long put our personal safety at risk. On the way, I risked my life and successfully completed various tasks in the face of the indiscriminate bombardment and bullets of the enemy's planes, for which I was awarded the "third-class meritorious service" medal of the Chinese People's Volunteers.
In June 1953, the one-year mission of our medical team to resist US aggression and aid Korea expired and we were about to return to the motherland, and the next group of medical teams would be sent to Korea to take over from our medical team. Back in China, there was no shortage of doctors like me in the local hospitals, and I was more needed in the field hospitals and the wounded, so I reported to the Ministry of Health and asked to stay and continue to work, which was quickly approved by the organization. The Sichuan Chengdu Surgical Medical Team was led by an old orthopedic professor from Chengdu Hospital in Sichuan Province, and I joined the team as a consultant. It was not until November 1953, when the armistice came into force, that the bombing by American planes stopped.
Farewell!
Source: Beijing Daily, Guang'anmen Hospital, Jiangxi Daily, Jiangxi Release