"Uncle, here it is. The volunteer pointed to the name "Wu Xiaomei" on the donor's monument. The old man Xuan Zhihao was supported, staggered forward, leaned over, pressed his face to the stone tablet, and whispered: "Wu Xiaomei, you are here." Then he stretched out his hand and wiped the names on the stele.
A total of 5,126 names are currently engraved on the monument to the donors of Qianjiang Cemetery in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. On the afternoon of March 30, sponsored by the Chinese Human Organ Donation Management Center and co-organized by the Zhejiang Red Cross Society and the Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission, the 2024 National Human Organ Donation On-site Memorial and Commemorative Activity was held in the cemetery, and the ecological burial ceremony of the six donors was held together, and Xuan Zhihao's wife Wu Xiaomei was one of them.
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In 2019, 64-year-old Wu Xiaomei died of illness, and her body was donated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine for medical research. During the event, dozens of students from the School of Medicine of Zhejiang University read the "Medical Student Oath" and made a solemn oath to pay tribute to the "silent teacher" who led them into the temple of medicine. "We will all be a handful of loess after we die, so it is better to make a contribution to promote the development of medicine. Xuan Zhihao said.
After the burial ceremony began, Xuan Zhihao stood in the front row of the crowd with red and swollen eyes, watching his wife leave amid solemn music, which was the last time they would see each other. 5 years ago, Wu Xiaomei was diagnosed with a serious illness, and not long after, Xuan Zhihao proposed to his wife to sign a body donation agreement together. "At that time, we had a clear understanding of the condition, and she was very receptive to my proposal. Xuan Zhihao said.
In March 2021, Wenbo, an 8-year-old boy, was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment after a car accident. After resuscitation, Xiao Wenbo recovered his heartbeat, but still did not regain spontaneous breathing, and doctors judged him to be brain dead. In a moment of grief, his parents signed an organ donation confirmation form and agreed to donate Xiao Wenbo's kidney and liver. "If my son can save more lives, we are willing to donate his organs," the father said. ”
As of February 29, 2024, Zhejiang Province has completed a total of 2,493 cases of human organ donation, 1,992 cases of body donation, 2,980 cases of cornea donation, 586 cases of brain tissue donation, and 35 cases of dural donation.
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"'How are you?, can you hear me?' In a trance, I heard someone calling far away, looking around blankly, I couldn't find the east, west, north and south for a while, I only felt a pair of gentle hands holding my ......" 2022 is the tenth year of Jiang Zhijuan's successful heart transplant, and she recorded her feelings about waking up after surgery online.
After being "reborn", Jiang Zhijuan's life was very exciting, she practiced dance, studied photography, learned catwalk, signed a donation agreement, and joined the "Boat of Life" volunteer service team...... The positive outlook makes it difficult to associate her with heart transplant survivors. Jiang Zhijuan said that although organ donation means the loss of one life, it also means the rebirth, hope and luck of another life. "It's hard for me to believe that such a lucky thing as a transplant could happen to me, and I want to live well and let the donor live another way. I hope that by sharing my own experience, I can help more people understand organ donation, and I hope that one day I can help more people through donation. ”
Han Bo, a kidney donor, wrote a long letter to record his story in the six years after surgery: "Once upon a time, I was also a very hard-working young girl. It's just that others work hard and shuttle through the streets and alleys in pursuit of a better life, but I strive to live and shuttle to major hospitals across the country......"
With a new kidney, Han Bo has the opportunity to re-enter the school and become a graduate student to start her life anew. Now she is often involved in organ donation awareness campaigns and does what she can for this cause.
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Organ donation crosses the gap between life and death and breaks through the barriers of traditional concepts, and it needs more understanding and promotion. Organ Donation & Transplant Coordinators have a sacred job and are known as the "ferrymen of life".
Wang Min, deputy director of the Organ Donation and Transplant Coordination Office at Li Huili Hospital of Ningbo Medical Center, has been working for 10 years and has witnessed more than 150 families make great love choices. "Most of the time, I'm in rejection. She said. Someone even said to her, "If you donate, your whole family will donate." ”
Promoting organ donation requires good institutional safeguards and popular science publicity, and Wang Min understands those who refuse. "It's quite normal. Some people are not yet conceptually acceptable. Wang Min said.
Emotion is the driving force behind Wang Min's work, and she still remembers the first donation she witnessed. It was a young man her age. After the young man's accident, his parents rushed to Zhejiang from distant Qiqihar. Before deciding to coordinate, Wang Min was full of worries: how could the young man's parents accept such a sudden change?
But to Wang Min's shock, the young man's mother choked up and said to her: "Why did you come now? If you show up earlier, my son won't have to lie with a tube in his whole body for so many days." In the decade since, whenever Wang Min has been rejected, the mother's words have come to mind.
In recent years, great progress has been made in organ donation. Ten years ago, there were just over 1,000 people registered for organ donation nationwide, but now more than 6.7 million people have registered, of which more than 90% are under the age of 45. Hou Fengzhong, director of the Chinese Human Organ Donation Management Center, said that this change is due to the improvement of the donation workflow system on the one hand, and the continuous improvement of the public's awareness of donation on the other hand. Up to now, more than 51,000 cases of organ donation have been completed across the country, more than 158,000 organs have been donated, more than 150,000 lives have been successfully saved, and more than 220 memorial sites for human organ donors have been built.
However, Hou Fengzhong also admitted that the demand for organ transplantation far exceeds the supply, and the shortage of organs is still the biggest problem facing organ transplantation. The Regulations on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation were promulgated in December last year and will come into force on 1 May this year. Hou Fengzhong believes that this regulation will provide a legal guarantee for strengthening the management of organ donation and transplantation, which is conducive to increasing publicity, education and knowledge popularization, enhancing multi-departmental cooperation, and promoting a more healthy, orderly and high-quality development of human organ donation and transplantation in the mainland.
Text: Health News reporter Men Wenwen Editor: Zhang Haohua Guan Zhongyao Proofreader: Ma Yang Review: Qin Mingrui Xu Bingnan