1in July, 937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out. 1In June, 938, Bethune, who was nearly 50 years old, and a Canadian-American medical team composed of two nurses Joan Ivan left Vancouver for China.
1939 In the second half of the year, Bethune prepared to return to China to raise medical equipment and funds. Before leaving, he visited 20 hospitals in the military region.
During the patrol, the Japanese army began a "sweeping" in winter. Bethune temporarily abandoned his plan to return to China, led the medical team to the front line of Motianling and set up an operating room in a ruined temple near the fire line. He forgot to eat and sleep, and took the time to rescue the wounded. In the intense work, Bethune's left middle finger was cut by the tip of a scalpel. He dipped his injured finger in disinfectant and went on working. When the last wounded man was evacuated after the operation, the enemy had already entered the village.
After a day and a night of marching, Bethune and his party arrived at a hospital behind Ganhejing, when his fingers began to swell. But he couldn't rest. On the first day, he examined more than 200 wounded people. The next day, he operated on 13 people. It was here that Bethune performed a pus discharge operation for a wounded man with a serious head infection. His injured finger is infected. The virus invaded his blood and devoured his healthy life.
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In order to serve China's anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, he arrived in Yan 'an on March 1938, and then transferred to Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei anti-Japanese base area. He took an active part in organizing mobile medical teams in the field and saving lives in and out of the fire line. In order to reduce the pain and disability of the wounded, he set the operating table closest to the fire line.
He proposed to open a sanitary material factory, which solved the problem of insufficient drugs; Establish health schools and train a large number of medical cadres; He compiled a variety of battlefield medical textbooks and taught them in person. His spirit of sacrifice, enthusiasm for work and high sense of responsibility are exemplary.
1939+065438+1October 12 At 5: 20 in the morning, Bethune, the superstar who saved countless lives, fell down. Bethune gave his precious life for the liberation of China people.
Mao Zedong published a famous article commemorating Bethune, and highly praised Bethune's spirit of internationalism. To commemorate Bethune, the model hospital of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was renamed Bethune International Peace Hospital, and the health school was renamed Bethune Health School.
1952, Bethune's body and statue were moved to the Martyrs Cemetery in North China Military Region, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Bethune is an example for China people to learn.
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