Yao Yufeng(L), director of the Department of Ophthalmology at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine [photo/gmw.cn]

Yao Yufeng, an eye-doctor, has been recommended by netizens as one of China’s Good Doctors, which is a monthly campaign similar to China’s Good Nurses, a program launched by the National Health Commission in July 2017.

The campaign is very popular among the public. As of the end of November 2018, 177 medical workers and nine medical teams had been elected by netizens.

Yao is one of them. Now he is the director of the Department of Ophthalmology at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. He is also a member of the Communist Party of China.

When he first started his work, he gave medical consultancy to dozens of patients every day. A lot of eye disease sufferers were not accessible to timely treatment as result of undeveloped medical technologies in those days. Some patients went blind, even suffering corneal ulcers and eyeball enucleation, which made him frustrated.

Therefore he desired to learn advanced medical technologies overseas. Fortunately China’s reform and opening-up went deep in the 1990s and brought him an opportunity to learn ophthalmology in Japan with a Chinese government subsidy.

After graduation, Yao gave up his higher Japanese salary and better work opportunities and came back to China to begin the study of corneal transplants. Finally he developed his own therapeutic practice in that field.

“Over the years I have treated more than 300,000 patients and enabled 30,000 of them to go from blindness to seeing the world again, but I have only 24 hours a day and limited energy. Therefore, I thought of organizing training classes to teach other doctors my technology of corneas transplant and benefit more patients. My wish is to let more patients see the beautiful world,” said Yao.

In fact, China’s health does not lack good doctors and Party members like Yao.

He Xinglong was honored as  a Good Doctor in August 2018. He is a village doctor of Daning county in Shanxi province. While traveling to give villagers medical services, he broke seven motor bikes by riding 400,000 kilometers of roads.

“Villages helped me to be a doctor, so I must be their doctor,” said He.

Jia Liqun elected as a Good Doctor in November 2017, is an honored director of the ultrasonography department of Beijing Children`s Hospital and also, a Party member.

“A small probe is a hope for a whole family. I, as a doctor, should be responsible, ” said Jia.

Zhao Qinghua, a nurse at the cardiology department of the Hospital Group of the First Affiliated Hospital of CQMU, won the Florence Nightingale Medal and was recognized as a Good Nurse in November 2017. “I love the job and I am willing to devoted myself to it and show my care and responsibility,” said Zhao.

An ideal and faith are for Party member what calcium is for a man. Lacking calcium, a man would be sick and without ideal and faith, communists would lose mental support. Medical workers live to up to the ideal and faith of communism and people’s expectations, and always keep their missions and aspirations in mind.