In an article by Mr. Wu a few days ago, he mentioned a medical school in Shandong Province that is about to be upgraded to a university: Weifang Medical College.
In the process of sorting out the information, Mr. Wu found that:This medical school is really different, not because of how strong it is, but because this school has made outstanding contributions to the protection of the medical health of the people of Shandong!
The following content is from the article published by the Weifang Medical College Newspaper in 2020, which was written by the alumni of the school in 1952 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the school
Original title: Shandong Province basically controls and eliminates leprosy, and Weifang Medical College has made great contributions!
The following is the original text:
Shandong Province is one of the main provinces where leprosy is prevalent in the country. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were 2 million leprosy in China, including 1 million in Guangdong Province and 500,000 in Shandong Province.
According to the examination, Confucius's student Bo Niu was a leprosy patient, and there were no leprosy prevention and control measures in all dynasties. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was decided to prevent and treat leprosy.
At that time, Dr. You Jiajun, a professor of the ** department of Shandong Medical College and a famous leprosy expert, went to Changwei Medical School (now Weifang Medical College) to select six students for the "Shandong Leprosy Research Institute" and went to Shandong Medical College ** for scientific Xi.
A year later, these six people became the first batch of researchers at the Provincial Leprosy Research Institute and the first batch of health technicians in Shandong Province to prevent and treat leprosy.
In 1955, when the six students reported to the Department of Health, the institute had not yet been built.
However, the two clinical research bases of the institute, two leprosy prevention and control stations in Ju County and Wulian County, have been built, and have been sent in**, assistants**, disinfectants, etc., but there are no doctors and cannot carry out their work.
The Department of Health sent the six graduates to work at the two county prevention and control stations. This is the first county in the province and the country to carry out leprosy prevention and control.
Ju County (a county under the jurisdiction of Rizhao City, Shandong) took the lead in the investigation of 580 leprosy patients in the county, and reported the investigation summary to the Department of Health, which in turn reported to the Ministry of Health, and was instructed by the Ministry of Health to carry out the first event in Ju County as soon as possible to further summarize the experience of large-scale prevention and control of leprosy.
At that time, Ju County had a large leprosy outpatient department, but Ju County was a large county with many mountains and few plains, and it was impossible for all patients to go to the outpatient clinic.
At that time, when there was no experience and no reference now, the institute pioneered "not focusing on outpatient clinics, but setting up roving medical treatment in different areas". There are 15 districts in the county, and each district has a point, and doctors regularly visit the point to treat patients, so that all patients can get **.
This working method created by our graduates has become the working model of 57 leprosy prevention and control stations in the province. After repeated investigations in the province, all the leprosy patients found were regularized.
Due to the experience of leprosy prevention and control in Ju County, the province has successively established 55 county-level leprosy prevention and control stations in the province's leprosy epidemic areas.
Due to the serious shortage of prevention and control personnel, Zhang Maosheng and Fu Yixin, graduates of our university, assisted Professor You Jiajun in opening two training courses. In order to support the development of the institute, the university has sent graduates to work in the institute many times.
In the end, half of the health technicians in the provincial first-class hospital are graduates of our school, and half of the technical backbones of the skin prevention stations at all levels in the province are graduates of our school.
The total number of graduates of our university participating in leprosy prevention and control reached more than 60 people, accounting for more than 60% of the graduates of major and technical colleges in our province at that time in leprosy prevention and control institutions at all levels. Their unremitting struggle to eradicate leprosy in our province has also won honor for the school.
In order to train and improve the technical ability of leprosy prevention and control doctors, our school has trained more than 120 on-the-job leprosy prevention and control doctors for the province for two consecutive years, further strengthening the technical strength of leprosy prevention and control.
Because there was no ** leprosy in the early stage, the late symptoms of the patients, such as hair loss and eyebrow loss, crooked mouth and slanted eyes, and mutilated limbs, were intimidating, so not only leprosy patients were discriminated against, but also doctors engaged in leprosy prevention and treatment were not popular.
In 1958, I led 50 students of the Xi to Jiaoxian, and when I boarded the train from Jinan, the carriage was very crowded, and some passengers quickly transferred to other carriages when they knew that they were students of the "Leprosy Research Institute".
This shows how much the masses were afraid of leprosy back then!
However, the students of our school are still enthusiastically participating in this cause of leprosy prevention and control, which is not understood by others, which fully proves that the school has deeply rooted the political and ideological education of the students in their minds and hearts, and the students' ideological consciousness of serving the people is very high.
After years of large-scale repeated investigations in Shandong Province, all leprosy patients in the province have been regularized. According to the expert group of the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization, leprosy has been basically controlled.
From 1954 to 1959, more than 60 graduates, including Song Xuezhong, Zhang Maosheng, Zheng Dayou, Duan Zhixue, Sun Zhaoshui, Pan Yulin and Chen Sen, were dispatched by the school to be an indispensable and important technical force in the prevention and treatment of leprosy in Shandong Province.
Their exploits in the basic control of leprosy in the province will go down in history at the risk of prejudice and discrimination by many people. The province has basically controlled and eliminated leprosy, and Weifang Medical College has made great contributions in this regard.