On the afternoon of June 5th, the awarding ceremony of "Volunteer Service Base of Jiangsu Red Cross Eye Hospital" awarded by the Red Tenth Society of Jiangsu Province was held in the Affiliated Eye Hospital of Nanjing Medical University. Xu Guolin, vice president of the Red Cross Society of Jiangsu Province, awarded the "Volunteer Service Base", Jiang Jianning, director of the Organization and Publicity Department of the Provincial Red Cross Society, read out the "Reply letter on agreeing to establish a Red Cross Volunteer Service Base in the Affiliated Eye Hospital of Nanjing Medical University", Zhu Xiaowei, deputy director of the Volunteer Work Office of the Civilization Office of Jiangsu Province, presented the flag to the "Doctor Volunteer Service Team", and Jiang Qin, president of the Eye Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, delivered a speech. Zhang Yan, vice minister of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Red Cross Society, Shao Haiya, president of the Fourth Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Yu Zhiping, vice president of the Eye Hospital of Southern Medical University, cao Guofan, and more than 60 Red Cross volunteers attended the awarding ceremony. At the awarding ceremony, the volunteer representatives took the oath, and the medal awarding ceremony was presided over by Vice President Cao Guofan.
As the eye hospital named by the Red Cross in Jiangsu Province, the Eye Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University has always been committed to promoting the Red Cross spirit of "humanity, fraternity and dedication" since its establishment, actively participating in social welfare, carrying out love and rescue, free diagnosis and benefiting the people, and winning a good reputation in the society.
In 2016, since the implementation of the Fraternity Bright Walk project organized by the Red Cross Society of Jiangsu Province, the Eye Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, as the undertaking medical institution for project screening, surgery and organization implementation, the hospital has dispatched backbone medical personnel to form four volunteer service teams, who carry ophthalmic examination instruments into the street community, carefully and carefully measure vision for the elderly in the community, screen for ophthalmic diseases, popularize ophthalmic knowledge, and arrange green fast-track medical treatment for the elderly with cataracts who are screened out in line with surgery. And apply for Red Cross surgical fee assistance, no matter how cold, rain or shine, the elderly affectionately call them "little angels of love and light".
As of December 31, 2018, the hospital has participated in more than 150 volunteer service teams, carried out 1,005 free medical screening activities, with a total of 50,000 free medical services, held more than 200 science lectures on eye disease prevention and treatment, distributed nearly 100,000 copies of eye disease science popularization materials, sent light and care to tens of thousands of poor cataract patients, and achieved the social effect of "saving one person, warming a family, and influencing one party".
With the establishment of the volunteer service base of Jiangsu Red Cross Eye Hospital, the volunteer team will be further expanded, the volunteer service will be more standardized, and the service level will be further improved. At the same time, the hospital set up the "Dr. Guangming" Red Cross Volunteer Service Team, which is mainly responsible for the cataract surgery task of Fraternity Guangmingxing, and provides high-level medical service guarantee for the implementation of the Fraternity GuangmingXing project.
At the unveiling ceremony, President Jiang Qin: "Humanity, Fraternity, Dedication" The Spirit of the Red Cross is the soul of the healer and the foundation of the hospital, and the doctor is benevolent, with noble sentiments, practicing the art of benevolence, worthy of heaven and earth, and worthy of the heart. The establishment of the "Volunteer Service Base" will effectively promote the ability and level of hospitals to serve patients and serve social welfare, further enhance the sense of social responsibility and mission of medical staff, make greater efforts for healthy Jiangsu, and let more people restore light and share love!