People’s Daily Online, Rio de Janeiro, February 23 (Reporter Wu Jie) On the 23rd local time, a critically ill overseas Chinese patient in Guyana suffering from sigmoid cancer liver metastasis and acute intestinal obstruction was in critical condition. During the operation, multiple lesions were removed in 5.5 hours, and the rescue was successful. The patient’s vital signs were stable after the operation. This is the first simultaneous operation for bowel cancer with liver metastases in Guyana.
A team of doctors from China and Guyana is performing an operation. Photo courtesy of the Chinese medical team in Guyana
The patient is an overseas Chinese who has lived in Guyana for more than 20 years. Before that, he came to the resident clinic of the Chinese medical team to seek medical treatment. Duan Yunfei, Li Min, Zhang Yongcheng and other doctors from different departments, after consultation, believed that his life was in danger and must be operated immediately. It is difficult for patients to return to China for treatment under the new crown epidemic, and local hospitals lack treatment experience. The Chinese medical team in Guyana has given patients hope of life.
On the evening of the 22nd, Duan Yunfei, the captain of the Chinese medical team, assisted the patient to go through the hospitalization procedures at Georgetown Hospital as quickly as possible, and started the operation as the chief surgeon early on the 23rd. It was Guyana’s Republic Day and a public holiday, but he and the medical team’s anesthesiologist Bu Xiaoxuan and local assistants such as Dr. Sandy gave up rest.
Since the 17th China (Jiangsu) medical team in Guyana arrived in Guyana in October last year, more than 200 surgeries have been performed so far, many of which are the first in the country.