|"I don't know how many tears I shed for AIDS patients, and I don't know how many tears I shed with them. ”
On December 11, Gao Yaojie passed away in New York, USA, at the age of 95. For our generation, Gui Xien and Gao Yaojie are names that they know and respect since the early 2000s when they go online and read newspapers. However, after all, nearly 20 years have passed since their deeds, and I think that remembering a person is a very personal matter, and there is no need to be too public, but I did not expect that after the death of the old man, some flies from nowhere buzzed there, making strange statements such as "divided into two" and "the evening is not guaranteed".
These people probably think that Gao Yaojie's departure from the United States in her later years made China very faceless, especially since she also published some articles or opinions and was taken advantage of. I know a little about what Gao Yaojie said in her later years, but I am not interested in looking at it comprehensively, because I think Gao Yaojie has her own unique life experience, what she saw and said, you can choose to believe it or not, her words in other fields do not affect the writing of past history, nor interfere with China's current social and economic development, what is there to blame?
Gao Yaojie has been a doctor all her life, and we should pay more attention to her great contributions to China's AIDS prevention and social progress.
Gao Yaojie is a rare person who combines benevolence, selflessness, wisdom, courage and perseverance, and his deeds and noble character are indeed like stars shining on the vast earth.
Gao Yaojie's deeds can be summarized into two points, one is to use wisdom and courage to reveal the truth that "the spread of AIDS is a bloody disaster" in the Central Plains, and the other is to use supreme compassion and perseverance to do AIDS prevention and AIDS patient rescue work, directly or indirectly saving lives and comforting orphans.
Talking about Gao Yaojie's work will certainly touch on some of the dark sides of society at that time, but in fact, it also witnesses China's progress in discovering and solving problems. For example, in 1995, ** and local governments closed the flooded blood stations in a timely manner, and then severely cracked down on underground blood stations, which was the most important step to stop the "blood disaster"; Gao Yaojie has not only received many first-class reports and affirmations, but her work has even been valued by first-class leaders; CCTV also selected her as "2003 Touching Chinese Figure", which greatly spread her deeds; Gao Yaojie has also received support from many individuals and institutions in her HIV/AIDS prevention work, and these are positive factors for promoting social progress, which should be treated fairly.
Everything Gao Yaojie has done is, first of all, his kindness and selflessness.
In 2004, when Gao Yaojie was interviewed by Newsweek, a reporter asked her, "What is the force that supports you to face this cause?" ”
Gao Yaojie said: "Have you seen the couplet on the wall - I hope everyone is healthy, why don't I be poor." Even though I'm financially and mentally struggling at the moment, it won't stop me. I come from a very poor background, and I have always been in contact with people at the bottom of society, so I can't see others suffering. What's more, it is a doctor's duty to save lives and help the wounded. ”
Ordinary people will also "can't see others suffering", but they may choose to avoid it, but Gao Yaojie chose to share their fate with them and stand with them, how merciful it is.
Gao Yaojie has devoted all her resources to HIV/AIDS prevention and aid. She and her wife have enough pensions and could have enjoyed their old age in peace, but she has spent hundreds of thousands of yuan in savings, pensions, lecture fees, social donations and various bonuses for HIV/AIDS prevention and relief work, and the lives she has saved are all strangers.
How many people can do this kind of selfless dedication to treating strangers as siblings?
Many people asked, why did Gao Yaojie have to go abroad to receive the award?
Gao Yaojie said: If you can receive the award, you can get some financial support from abroad, and money is too important for AIDS patients in Henan.
How bright! How can this kind of openness be understood by a sinister villain?
Gao Yaojie saw a hole in the student's clothes and sewed it for him (Photo: Lin Haiyin).
At the same time, Gao Yaojie also has the acumen, heroic bravery and fearlessness of an intellectual.
On April 7, 1996, a hospital in Henan Province received a 42-year-old difficult female patient and invited Professor Gao Yaojie to come for consultation. It was eventually found that it was an AIDS patient who had contracted HIV as a result of a blood transfusion from uterine fibroid surgery, and died 21 days later. The patient was transfused with blood from a blood bank, and Gao Yaojie was keenly aware of the seriousness of the situation.
In order to uncover the truth of the "blood disaster", Gao Yaojie visited the epidemic area, collected a large number of patients' cases, and established contact with them. These materials are the most powerful evidence for her to reveal the "blood scourge". With the joint efforts of many people of insight and the strong report of **, the truth that "many places in Henan are the hardest hit areas of the AIDS epidemic" and "AIDS transmission caused by blood sales" can finally be concealed.
However, all this did not come easily. Gao Yaojie herself is a retired doctor in the system, and there are many ways to obstruct her work. The local health system ** came to warn her not to be interviewed by reporters, and the leaders of the unit also came to persuade her not to go abroad to receive the award, because this would make the "family ugliness public" and affect the promotion of the local **, but Gao Yaojie was unmoved.
Gao Yaojie had a rough life and suffered a lot, Wen Ge was injured during a fight, her stomach was removed by four-fifths, and she also suffered from myocardial ischemia, chronic colitis and other diseases. After her retirement, she devoted more than 10 years to HIV/AIDS prevention and relief work, relying on her belief in helping the world and amazing perseverance.
HIV/AIDS propaganda is a very special kind of work, which cannot be solved by an executive order, but requires consistent reach and communication, and all kinds of ignorance and prejudice must be restrained.
At first, Gao Yaojie's work was not understood, and she carried self-funded printed materials on the prevention and treatment of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases to train stations and bus stations to distribute them, but many people avoided them and threw them on the ground. However, as she persisted, more and more volunteers joined in, and her sincerity and kindness were also seen by AIDS patients, who wrote to her and wanted to see her on their deathbed.
Perhaps the biggest price she paid for this career was the loss of family affection. The son didn't understand, the youngest daughter lost her job and left the country because of her influence, and the eldest daughter was seriously ill and had no time to take care of her.
In 2007, in order to prevent Gao Yaojie from going out to receive the award, the local ** "mobilized" her son to intercede, and her son knelt in front of his mother and kowtowed three times in a row, begging her not to go abroad to receive the award. However, Gao Yaojie has made up her mind and does not want to lie to the outside world about her illness.
In his later years, the old man Gao Yaojie wanted to return to his hometown day and night, but it was no longer possible. Is this her personal choice, or is it a destination given to her by the times?
No matter how you look at her life, you can't help but admit that she has no selfishness and only deep love for this land and the people on this land.
"I don't know how many tears I shed for AIDS patients, and I don't know how many tears I shed with them," she said. ”
Note: This article refers to reports such as "Newsweek" and "Sanlian Life Weekly"; **From the web.