Jia Liqun,helps patients with a benevolent mind

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2014-05-27

Jia Liqun, male, ethnic Han Chinese, born in November 1953, Chinese Communist Party member, head of Beijing Children's Hospital’s ultrasound department

Jia has helped many patients over the past 36 years with a benevolent mind and art. He works around the clock, has made accurate diagnoses for more than 70,000. The difficult and complicated child cases, and has saved more than 2,000 children suffering from life-threatening diseases.

Jia often spends time in operating rooms to observe the operation process during the day time, reading up on international ultrasound periodicals at night. He realized the advantages of small organ probes and introduced them into clinical use. The move improved diagnosis accuracy and detection rate for child disease and made the hospital a leader in China’s ultrasound technology. In some areas, the children’s hospital is even on a par with international counterparts in ultrasound application. Jia thus was named a B ultrasound expert. He can always cut through difficult problems with his exquisite technical skills and responsible spirit. In December 2009, Jia managed to help an 8-year-old girl from Gansu province find the cause of her 6-year stomachache. He found a soybean-size cyst in her intestine, which surgeons failed to find during the follow up operation. Jia quickly made it to the operating room, stuck the probe into the patient’s abdominal cavity and found the cyst behind the head of the pancreas. The surgeon knitted his eyebrows, worried that the cyst’s location could make operating extremely difficult or cause pancreatic fistula. However, Jia said in confidence, “Don’t worry, I will use the probe to steer your operation.” After two hours, the operation went through without a glitch, and the surgeon expressed gratitude for Jia.

Jia treats patients like family and devotes patience, attention and care to them. He keeps honest and clean and still lives in a 50-square-meter apartment, so he can be on call 24 hours. Ultrasound examinations require an empty stomach, so he often uses lunch hours to run tests on patients to cut down waiting time for patients. “I couldn’t leave my post when I saw the anxious looks from a patient’s family,” Jia said. Once he insisted on finishing examining all patients despite an abdominal discomfort. When he went to see a doctor after finishing all tasks, he was diagnosed as acute appendicitis reaching gangrene stage and received an emergency operation.

Jia has won many awards, including recognition as an advanced individual worker in the national medicine and health system’s excellence competition, an advanced worker in Beijing, one of the 10 health guards in Beijing, and a good Party member in Beijing.