In September 2022, the 10th batch of Chinese medical teams to South Sudan arrived in South Sudan. For more than a year, they have used their professional skills to help improve the local medical level and better serve the people of South Sudan. Among them, anesthesiologist Yu Yongqi paid attention to the gap in the field of local anesthesiology, and trained a group of "non-leaving" anesthesiologists for the local area through teaching.
The doctor in the picture is named Yu Yongqi, an anesthesiologist from the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, who is the 10th batch of Chinese medical teams to aid South Sudan. In September 2022, he came to Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan.
Yu Yongqi, member of the 10th batch of China's medical team to aid South Sudan: After coming here, I found that the situation here is far worse than imagined.
The poor hardware conditions of the operating room, the expired drugs, and the backward technology all made Yu Yongqi feel pressured, and what shocked him the most was the extreme scarcity of local anesthesiologists.
Yu Yongqi, member of the 10th batch of China's medical team to South Sudan: A student told me that he was the only anesthesia technician in their state, and he was the only anesthesia technician. When he came to school, all the surgeries in their whole province, in their state, had to be stopped, because no one was doing it because he was gone.
Since November 2022, Yu Yongqi has undertaken a foreign aid medical mission that has not been done by the team before, giving systematic theoretical and clinical practice lectures to local anesthesiology students and pharmacists.
Yu Yongqi, a member of the 10th batch of China's medical team to aid South Sudan: The South Sudan Medical College is a special training of surgeons and internists run by the South Sudanese government, and anesthesiologists are also in one of the schools, so they asked me to teach them, because they are very short, there are only a few people in the whole country, and there is also a shortage of teachers, so I went later.
As the course unfolded, the feedback from students was very enthusiastic, and Yu Yongqi's teaching changed from 1 to 2 classes per week to all classes from Monday to Friday. In the process of teaching, Yu Yongqi often uses the teaching method of "problem-based learning Xi", and has achieved good teaching results.
William, Graduate Student in Anesthesiology, Medical College of South Sudan: The experience of studying Xi with Dr. Yu is very important and helpful to me, and even to the people of South Sudan, especially the patients who come to the hospital, which gives me the confidence and confidence to help those who need my help.
During the one-year mission, in addition to completing the teaching task, the 10th batch of Chinese medical teams in South Sudan also helped the Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan to establish an intensive care unit and pathology department, filled the shortcomings and vacancies in clinical treatment, carried out a series of difficult and complex surgeries such as a huge abdominal tumor and the first urological surgery, and received tens of thousands of outpatients.
Anthony, Director, Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan: I've been working at Juba Teaching Hospital for many years, I've seen all the development of the hospital firsthand, and I was here when the first medical teams came to South Sudan, and they have made a lot of beneficial changes to the Juba Teaching Hospital, and the whole country.
Yu Yongqi said that in the future, he must bring his children back to South Sudan to tell him his story.
Yu Yongqi, member of the 10th batch of China's medical team to South Sudan: My father used to work here, he used to help the people here, and it used to be relatively barren and backward, but the people here are full of hope for their lives.