When it comes to Bethune, the Chinese are all grateful, and although the 49-year-old international soldier has only lived in China for a year and a half, his efforts have been remembered by the Chinese forever.
Bethune, who fought against illness for the revolution, came to China with medical supplies and joined the anti-Japanese team without hesitation.
With a pair of hands, he saved countless anti-Japanese fighters, and injected vitality and hope into China's anti-Japanese war.
However, fate did not make much of a better future for this great warrior, and in an ordinary operation, Bethune was unfortunately infected, and then forwarded into a serious posterior disease.
The disease did not immediately take his life, but instead left him with more than 20 days of painful suffering.
In the end, when there was no cure, Dr. Bethune left the world in pain.
Although Dr. Bethune has passed away, China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has not yet ended, and people have inherited Dr. Bethune's legacy and continued to strengthen the anti-Japanese forces.
During this period, Dr. Bethune's body was transferred three times due to Japanese aggression and persecution, and was finally buried in peace.
Back in 1938, Bethune, who was 48 years old, crossed the ocean from distant Canada to Hong Kong.
He did not arrive alone, but carried a sufficient number of medical facilities and medicines, and prepared to go to China to support China's anti-Japanese struggle.
After arriving in Hong Kong on January 2, Bethune began to organize and build a medical team, and under his stewardship, Canadians and Americans who responded to his call came together.
On March 31, the huge medical team finally arrived in Yan'an, where they saw new hope for China's war of resistance.
The tense situation in the early days of the anti-Japanese resistance did not give Bethune much time to familiarize, and he immediately devoted himself to the work of saving lives and helping the wounded, establishing health schools, and cultivating talents.
At that time, the medical conditions in the mainland, especially in Yan'an, were very backward, and it can even be said that there was no health security.
But Bethune's arrival not only brought medicine, but also brought a safe medical concept to the Eighth Route Army.
In June 1938, when Bethune was in Wutai County, he broke the taboo zone for the treatment of the wounded and created the first case of blood transfusion under the conditions of field warfare in China.
From blood collection, to blood identification, to preservation and transportation, Bethune has established a complete blood transfusion guarantee system.
Under the dual guarantee of system and experience, the first blood donor was snatched by 34-year-old Minister of Health Ye Qingshan.
Lying in a hospital bed, he managed to deliver his own blood to one of the fighters, and both of them were safe.
Next, Bethune, who had type O blood, also took the initiative to lie on the hospital bed and pump blood to other fighters.
With the blessing of Bethune's type O blood, he has saved many fighters, so the masses also call him the mass blood bank.
In addition to the huge burden on his body, Bethune's itinerary is all over the central Hebei region.
In four months, Bethune traveled more than 750 kilometers and performed more than 300 surgeries.
During the operation, Bethune also helped the Eighth Route Army build a temporary operating room and 13 various bandaging places.
These basic medical conditions played a key role in the treatment of the wounded of the Eighth Route Army.
Of course, in addition to helping soldiers on the front line of medical treatment, Bethune also actively cultivated medical talents from the mainland and innovated medical aid equipment.
With only one "Lugou Bridge" portable operating table, the operation can be started at any time and anywhere, further ensuring the safety and medical treatment of the wounded.
This bridge-shaped wooden frame on horseback makes it possible to reach the operating table wherever the battlefield is.
At the same time, Bethune was able to deeply integrate with the local people and local life, especially in July 1939, when the village of Shenbei, where Bethune was located, suffered a particularly serious flood.
In the face of the flood, Bethune's first reaction was to save the people, but the masses knew how valuable he was, so they tried their best to prevent Bethune from entering the water.
In desperation, Bethune could only join the commando team at school, wading through deep water, carrying equipment and materials one by one.
In October 1939, the battle for Motianling was in full swing, and the wounded were continuously sent to Bethune's operating room.
Bethune had already performed several surgeries on the operating table, when a soldier wounded by shrapnel was lying on the operating table again.
Bethune immediately began to perform the operation, but in the course of the operation, an accident happened.
When Bethune took out the broken shrapnel from the soldier's body, he was accidentally cut by a scalpel on the side.
At this time, the ideal thing to do is to disinfect and bandage it immediately to avoid secondary infection, but it is in Bethune's eyes that the rescue of the fighters is the most important.
He simply wiped it with alcohol and went back to work.
No one would have imagined that such a small wound would eventually kill Dr. Bethune, and the wound would be infected by bacteria, which in turn would induce sepsis.
In the midst of agony, Dr. Bethune died on November 12, 1939.
The solemn memorial ceremony could not make up for the Chinese people's thoughts and gratitude to Dr. Bethune.
As a result of the actions of the Japanese invaders, Dr. Bethune could not be at peace after his death, and his body was transferred three times to escape the persecution of the Japanese.
Nowadays, Bethune's tomb, which lies peacefully in the martyrs' cemetery of the North China Military Region, has become one of the places where people mourn him.