During her period of aid to Tibet, Uzhina, deputy chief physician of the Ophthalmology Department of the Armed Police Force General Hospital, treated more than 2,000 patients and performed more than 70 major and minor surgeries. She was hailed as the "Messenger of Light" by the officers, soldiers and the Tibetan people stationed there. ".
Uzhina’s first task after arriving on the plateau was to help the Tibetan Corps establish a regular ophthalmology clinic. She led the medical staff to clean the darkroom that had been idle for many years. Without dressings, surgical drapes and other necessities for diagnosis and treatment, she bought cloth, designed and cut it herself. She also actively recommended the purchase of ophthalmic medical equipment to the hospital leaders, proactively contacted the headquarters, and obtained fully automatic computerized refractors and measuring instruments for the department. In addition, she brought her own slit lamp, fundus lens, etc. from Beijing, so that the ophthalmic medical equipment It is basically complete and meets the needs of diagnosing and treating common diseases and performing general surgeries.
Despite the lack of oxygen at the plateau and poor medical conditions, Uzhina did not wait and insisted on carrying out operations while building an operating room. With only a few surgical instruments, she performed the first operation on the patient after entering Tibet. This was also the first eye operation since the establishment of the Armed Police Tibet Corps Hospital. An old Tibetan man suffered from eye disease for many years and sought medical treatment everywhere but could not be cured. Uzhina performed a careful operation on him and restored his sight. The old man gratefully sent a banner with the title "Female Bodhisattva in the Army". In order to prevent and control eye diseases in Tibet, Uzhina also led medical staff to sentry posts and villages to carry out "Trachoma Trachomatis Disease Prevention and Control in Tibetan Plateau Tibetan People" Research on the project "Investigation of Infection Situation", which won the second prize for the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Armed Police Force.