Background of the Creation of "In Memory of Paik Chouen"
In March 1938, Norman Paik Chouen, a member of the ****anese Communist Party of Canada (CCCP) and a doctor, arrived in Yan'an at the head of the Canadian-American medical team. In April of the same year, Paikouen traveled east across the Yellow River to the Jinchaji Border Region.
He led the field medical team to many battlefields, braved the rain of bullets, and saved thousands of sick and wounded in the extremely difficult environment.
In the winter of 1939, Baek Koo-un died on November 12, 1939, after his finger was infected and poisoned when he was rescuing the wounded at Laiyuan Motianling on the front line of the resistance against the Japanese invasion.
Yan'an held a memorial meeting for him on December 1, and Comrade Mao Zedong inscribed an elegy in his own handwriting and wrote this article on December 21st.
Expressing his deep condolences for the death of Bakun, he highly praised his spirit of internationalism, the spirit of not benefiting oneself but benefiting others, and the spirit of striving for technical excellence, and called on the whole party to learn from Comrade Bakun.
Expanded Information
Bai Qiu'en anecdote - In June 1938, Bai Qiu'en lectured on blood transfusion techniques at the Songyankou military rear hospital in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. "Blood transfusion was a relatively new technology at that time, and only a few hospitals in China's major cities were able to carry it out. Blood transfusion under field medical conditions was something people didn't even dare to think about.
Bai Qiu'en first talked in detail about the operation of blood collection, the production of standard blood type, blood type identification, blood matching test, storage, transportation, safekeeping and other basic knowledge, and then pushed a patient with chest trauma, the 32-year-old Minister of Health Ye Qingshan was the first to donate blood.
After checking the blood type, Bai Qiu'en let Ye Qingshan and the patient's head and feet opposite lying on the bed, and took out a simple blood transfusion device. A skin tube with a needle was connected to the veins of the right and left arms where they were leaning closely together, and a three-way valve in the middle of the skin tube was connected to a syringe on the valve. Bai Kouan opened the valve to Minister Ye, drew the needle plug, and the crimson blood flowed into the syringe, then turned the valve, and the blood flowed into the patient's body.
Everyone applauded the success of the field transfusion, the first in the history of Chinese military field surgery. The second patient was pushed in, and Bai Kouen took the initiative to lie beside the patient's body and said indisputably, "I'm type O blood, draw mine." The first time I saw this, I was able to get a good look at it, and I was able to get a good look at it, and I was able to get a good look at it.
Baidu Encyclopedia - In Memory of Bai Koun
Baidu Encyclopedia - Bai Koun