When the “epidemic” of the Shanghai War was going on, many elderly people were faced with the dilemma of stopping medicines.
The 83-year-old Shi Laobo is a lung cancer patient. The targeted drugs used for treatment have run out. The old man’s face and other parts of the body are swollen and have difficulty breathing.
My grandmother is in the middle stage of breast cancer. She has been suffering from cancer for 5 years. She is now relying on traditional Chinese medicine for conditioning.
At 7:30 in the morning, Zhang Ruiqiang was anxiously lined up in the snake-shaped registration queue at Shanghai No. 7 People’s Hospital. Due to epidemic control and limited transportation capacity, the distribution of medicines has been slow in major hospitals one after another. This hospital brings together patients from all over Shanghai, and the number of people is much larger than usual. Among the people who are constantly shuttled, what is more eye-catching is the “red vest” like Zhang Ruiqiang – the volunteers who buy medicines for the residents of the community.
Registration is only the first step. In one day today, Zhang Ruiqiang is waiting for medical treatment, taking medicine, paying, distributing, collecting, and counting… such a series of tedious links, which he has to go through every 2-3 days.
The medicine cannot be stopped
Zhang Ruiqiang is a resident of Fute No. 4 Village, Gaoqiao Town, Pudong New Area, and an employee of the Shipping Branch of Shanghai Offshore Oil Bureau. After the community was closed, he became the first group of volunteers.
There are many elderly people over the age of 75 with limited mobility and physical problems in the community. In the severe epidemic situation, Zhang Ruiqiang went to the hospital to purchase medicines, not without fear. “Party members must come forward at critical moments, and there must be the first person to set an example in this matter.” With Zhang Ruiqiang’s example and the mobilization of the neighborhood committee, 8 volunteers participated in the first batch of dispensing work.
Buying medicine needs to go through “nine, nine and eighty-one difficulties”, and the meticulousness and fatigue are far beyond imagination. With the anticipation of the first batch of 124 residents on medication, at 7:30 in the morning, the “dispensing team” led by Zhang Ruiqiang appeared at Shanghai Seventh People’s Hospital.
Neurology, Cardiovascular and Endocrinology are the departments with the most dispensing demand. Often a department has thirty or forty citizen cards, and everyone has a heavy responsibility in their hands. It was nearly 5 o’clock when I left the hospital. “We commute with the doctor!” Zhang Ruiqiang joked with his teammates.
After returning home, he and his teammates didn’t have time to take a breath. They kept informing the residents in the group, and delivered medicines from house to house, asking the residents to check the medicines and pay the advanced medical expenses. Finally, go back to the second floor of the community to check the collection situation. In this way, the whole process of purchasing medicines is completed.
“You can’t force others, but you must be yourself”
The dispensing of medicine is comparable to a “Learning from the West”, after the first “long trek” Afterwards, everyone has a feeling of being “hollowed out” of fatigue. But Zhang Ruiqiang was reluctant to give up: “You should give an explanation to the residents when you take over the job, how can you just pick one up.” Responsibility stems from the pair of eager eyes, and also from the promise of “I’ll go first” and “follow me”.
At 10:30 in the night, the phone rang, and Aunt Tang’s low, trembling voice came from the neighboring community: “Xiao Zhang, I have a little angina, can you give me medicine now?” He was wearing pajamas and slippers. Ride the battery car and quickly send the medicine over. Zhang Ruiqiang is from Shandong, so he doesn’t understand Shanghai dialect very well, but from the smile that spread out from the old lady in an instant, he understood her gratitude.
“Little Family” and “Everyone”: Flowing Warmth
< p> Having undertaken a lot of volunteer work, it was difficult for Zhang Ruiqiang’s son Doubao to meet his father. During the nucleic acid test, Zhang Ruiqiang was “big white”, fully armed and wrapped tightly, with only one pair of eyes showing, Doubao could only rely on these eyes to find his father.
Here, “flowing warmth” can be seen everywhere:
Grandma Lu, who is in her 80s, brought the volunteers home-made dried grass head dumplings in the middle of the night; Grandpa Baishi Qian waded through the water on rainy days to deliver vegetables to the residents; young people who were busy working carried lunch boxes to the homes of the lonely and widowed old people; even neighbors who used to have quarrels began to take care of them. I’m onion, I’ll mix your ginger…
“As hard as the epidemic is, we have to work hard. The epidemic has made people’s lives worse, but I will always be grateful for this period of harmony between people A day of love.” In the early morning of April 16, Zhang Ruiqiang wrote such a paragraph in his diary.
Author: Zhou Yuan, Yang Han
Editor: Willow
Editor in charge: Tang Weijie
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