What Bethune did.

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China, in order to assist the liberation of the people of China,1In March 938, Bethune was sent by the Canadian * * * Production Party and the American * * * Production Party to lead a medical team composed of Canadians and Americans to Yan 'an. In August, he served as the health consultant of the Eighth Route Army Jinchaji Military Region, and devoted himself to improving the medical work and battlefield treatment of the troops and reducing the mortality and disability rate of the wounded. Build the hospital behind the military region into a model hospital, organize the production of all kinds of medical equipment, impart knowledge to medical staff, and compile a medical illustrated manual. It is suggested to establish a visiting surgical hospital, hold an internship week for medical cadres and speed up the training of health cadres. Organize mobile medical teams to enter and leave the fire line to save lives. In order to reduce the pain and disability of the wounded, he set the operating table closest to the fire line. 165438+1At the end of October, he led a medical team to Yanbei, Shanxi Province for battlefield treatment, and performed 7 1 operation for two consecutive days and nights.

1February, 939, the "Crusade Medical Team" led by 18 went to the front line in central Hebei to treat the wounded. Despite the threat of Japanese artillery fire, Bethune worked continuously for 69 hours. Bethune operated on the wounded 1 15 at the front line of Lingqiu. Once, a wounded man was in urgent need of blood transfusion, and he volunteered to donate 300 ml. He also participated in a voluntary blood transfusion group. Some wounded people were scattered in the homes of residents in guerrilla areas, and he and the medical team risked their lives to operate on them. Four months, the journey 1500 miles, 3 operations15, the establishment of operating rooms and bandaging stations 13, and the treatment of more than 0/000 wounded people/kloc-0. In order to adapt to the war environment and facilitate the battlefield treatment, a mobile hospital was set up and a medicine kit was made, which can hold all the medical devices and medicines used for 100 operations, 500 dressing changes and 500 prescriptions, and is called "Lugouqiao medicine kit". Made a dressing change basket, called "Bethune dressing change basket". At the beginning of July, he returned to Xishan, Hebei Province, participated in the organization and leadership of the health organs in the military region, and proposed to open a Soviet sanitary material factory, which solved the problem of insufficient drugs; Establish health schools and train a large number of medical cadres; He has compiled many battlefield medical textbooks, such as Organization and Technology of Division Field Hospital in Guerrilla War, Instructions for Battlefield Rescue, Battlefield Rescue Technology, Model Hospital Organization Law, etc. He also donated his own X-ray machine, microscope, a set of surgical instruments and a batch of medicines to the military health school.

193910/in late October, when rescuing the wounded in the battle of Motianling, Laiyuan County, the middle finger of his left hand was cut by a scalpel, and he was infected while operating on a surgical infectious disease victim, but he insisted on going to the battlefield to rescue him despite the pain. He said, "Don't treat me like an antique, treat me like a machine gun." Take the medical team to the front immediately. Eventually, due to the deterioration of the injury, it turned into sepsis and the treatment was ineffective. On 1 12, he died in Huangshikou Village, Tang County, Hebei Province at the age of 49.