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By APD Writer Yang Siyao
Yu Zaiji, a 97-year-old Chinese gynecologist, is still treating patients in a public medical institution in north China's Shanxi Province.
She always says “Besides study, treating patients is the only thing I can do in my life. It’s what I am living for.”
Born in an educated family in Beijing in 1920, Yu graduated from the Department of Medicine of Peking University, one of Chinese top universities, in her 20s.
In 1949, she came to Shanxi and threw herself into preparatory work of School of Medicine of Shanxi University.
Soon after, Yu got married and pregnant. During pregnancy, she was reluctant to put her work on the back burner. She still desperately worked every day, and sometimes, even 20 hours a day. But finally overtiredness made her miscarry.
Despite the miscarriage, she returned her work soon after a short break.“I would rather die than not work,” said Yu.
After years of effort, she made great achievements in gynecology, but at the expense of personal happiness.
She initiated a non-surgical treatment of ectopic pregnancy with a combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine, which has saved tens of thousands of pregnant women.
In 1971, she was received and rewarded by late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.
In spite of advancing age, Yu is persisting in caring patients. Due to visual and hearing loss, she asks her assistant to help when inquiring illness of patients.
(Yu writes medical record with a ruler to keep neat)
“The value of my life is to cure patients,” said Yu.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
