Dr. Chen Guifang from the Hainan Provincial Women and Children’s Medical Center (Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital) is now 89 years old. He still insists on visiting the clinic twice a week. He is caring and patient with children. Many parents like Find this “grandma doctor” to treat your child.
“Grandma Doctor” Chen Guifang sees the child. Respondents provided
Dr. Chen Guifang has been a doctor for 64 years. Dr. Chen Guifang has never changed his original intention. He has always adhered to his post in pediatrics, and used professional skills to shed love and sunshine to protect the healthy growth of every child.
Children’s allergic cough “grandmother doctor” patiently answered 7 times
Now, Chen Guifang every Thursday morning and every Friday afternoon, in Hainan Province women Children’s Medical Center (Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital) Pediatrics clinic. Over the years, she has been punctual in her clinic visits, treated every child equally, with love and patience. When encountering some children with complicated conditions, Chen Guifang will take the initiative to tell the parents of the children their phone numbers, and at the same time leave the parents’ phone numbers, and tell the parents to observe the children’s mental state and behavior, and call her in time if there is any abnormality, so as to give guidance .
Recently, a 3-year-old girl suffered from allergic cough. She saw Chen Guifang more than half a month ago, and her condition improved after taking medicine. After two weeks of follow-up, Chen Guifang suggested to continue taking the medicine and observe. But the father of the child felt that he had taken the medicine before, and he did not want to give the child any more medicine because he was worried about the side effects of the medicine. Chen Guifang patiently explained that because the child had an allergic cough for too long, he was worried that the condition would recur after stopping the drug, and the follow-up medication was to consolidate the curative effect. After seeing the doctor, the parents of the child returned to the clinic seven times successively to ask about the medication and some doubts. But Chen Guifang understood the parents’ confusion and worries, and used professional knowledge and patient explanations to convince the parents.
“Grandma Doctor” Chen Guifang. Photo by reporter Wang Hongxu
64 years of medical service, protecting children and being caring is a role model
In daily work, Chen Guifang has become a role model for outpatient and emergency medical staff, serving children for children for the sake of health. In life, Chen Guifang regards them as family. She sends zongzi to medical staff on the Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes for everyone on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and prepares New Year’s goods for everyone during the Chinese New Year.
It is not easy for a pediatrician, and it is difficult to see a doctor for a child, because the child does not know how to describe the condition, and it is usually repeated by the parents, so the pediatrics is also called “mute”. Children are the future of every family and the future of the country. For this future, Chen Guifang has been guarding from the past to the present. For 64 years, her colleagues have come and gone, but she has never taken off her white coat.
“Grandma Doctor” Chen Guifang. Photo by reporter Wang Hongxu
Actually, Chen Guifang has been fighting the disease all these years. In 2006, 74-year-old Chen Guifang was diagnosed with breast cancer. Colleagues were worried about her, but she was very open. “Cancer is not cured in one day, and life must continue.” Next, she experienced After 6 times of chemotherapy and 32 times of radiotherapy, he slowly recovered to health, and still insists on the diagnosis and treatment of children.
Time flies, but the original intention does not change. Chen Guifang has treated countless children, and even three generations of her grandchildren have been her children. Everyone affectionately calls her “grandma doctor”. On October 22, 2020, at the 25th National Pediatric Academic Conference of the Chinese Medical Association, Chen Guifang, a pediatrician from the Hainan Women and Children’s Medical Center, was awarded the title of “The Eighth Chinese Pediatric Lifetime Achievement Physician”.
Hanging the pot to save the world, honor is equal, but Chen Guifang says that she is just an ordinary doctor. But it is this ordinaryness that guards the healthy growth of generations of children and the future of the motherland.
Source: Hainan Women’s Federation Comprehensive New Hainan Client