The "whistleblower" who was hit **
Hundreds of millions of people are quiet because someone is going backwards for you!
On December 10, 2023, a 96-year-old lady passed away at her home in Upper Manhattan, New York.
Her name is Gao Yaojie, a Chinese doctor known as "the fighter against HIV/AIDS" and "the first person in China's civil anti-AIDS epidemic", and a whistleblower who has been campaigning for the "AIDS blood disaster in Henan" for more than ten years.
Because he dared to tell the truth and had the courage to expose the "secret written in blood", Gao Yaojie's family was implicated, and he was hit hard by offending the relevant parties, and finally had to live in a foreign country. But in exchange for the safety of thousands of lives.
On the occasion of leaving, Gao Yaojie said, "I left China in order to let the world know the truth about the Central Plains blood disaster."I'm still going to come back, and I'm going to die on the plane back to China. ”
The "amazing secret" that was discovered
Who is Gao Yaojie?
Gao Yaojie, a native of Cao County, Shandong, was born in 1927 and graduated from the School of Medicine of Henan University in 1954. Deputy to the Seventh People's Congress of Henan Province, member of Jiusan Society, researcher of Henan Provincial Research Museum of Culture and History, retired professor of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and ** oncology expert. Over the years, he has spent nearly one million yuan to print AIDS prevention publicity materials at his own expense, help AIDS patients and AIDS orphans, and is known as "the first person in China's civil AIDS prevention".
In 1996, Dr. Gao Yaojie, who had retired from the Henan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, discovered a secret: a rural woman who had come to the provincial capital for medical treatment was suffering from AIDS.
At that time, the official channels of transmission of AIDS were sexual transmission and drug use, and the village woman had no connection to either.
After discovering this situation, 69-year-old Dr. Gao began to visit the countryside and found that there are many blood stations without any health qualifications in various parts of Henan. Out of the relationship of high profits, such "black blood stations" have sprung up more and more everywhere like mushrooms after a rain.
The Zhuangzi is full of vine-like, bleeding plastic tubes and red grape-like bottles of plasma. Littered with sterile cotton balls and waste needles. Broken syringe glass and glass vials of blood were everywhere. Everywhere there were blood vials and buckets of O, A, B, and AB blood that had been collected. On the ground was a patch of falling blood and spilled red plasma, and the air was filled with red blood all day long.
In the economically underdeveloped rural areas at that time, many villagers who were in urgent need of money solved their financial difficulties by selling blood, which was a common phenomenon in the local area.
During the investigation, Gao Yaojie also found that many villagers sold their blood to survive, but had no idea about the risk of virus infection in the process. There is no HIV screening mechanism at either government-run or private blood banks.
The lack of this screening mechanism ultimately leads to the fact that there are many AIDS patients who sell blood, and because there are no measures to prevent contamination and cross-infection, the blood products in the blood bank are contaminated, and then transmitted to healthy blood donors and more innocent healthy people through different channels.
Since then, this old man, who shines with the brilliance of humanity, has dedicated the rest of his life to "anti-AIDS".
The "mother of AIDS" that moved China
The disaster brought by the "blood disaster" to some rural areas in Henan is too heavy.
Due to the lack of necessary medical conditions, patients in the "AIDS village" died one after another, and a minor child became an "AIDS orphan".
Thousands of villages and Xuli people left arrows, and thousands of households sang songs", which became a true portrayal of some of the hardest-hit areas of AIDS at that time.
Perhaps it was these tragic scenes that he witnessed that injected tenacious motivation into Gao Yaojie's weak body.
She is not the first doctor to tell the Central Plains blood disaster, but she is the one who persevered for 14 consecutive years (1996) after poking out the news (1996) and never fell.
Over the past 14 years, Gao Yaojie has visited more than 100 villages and visited nearly 1,000 AIDS families, covering 16 provinces and cities.
She has received 15,000 letters from AIDS patients and various other sexually transmitted diseases, she has personally helped 164 AIDS orphans, her home receives AIDS patients every day, she has written, written, printed and sent more than 1.3 million copies of HIV/AIDS prevention books at her own expense, and she has used more than 1 million yuan in international and domestic bonuses, personal savings, manuscript fees, lecture fees, etc., all of which have been used for the relief work of the Central Plains blood disaster and the blood disaster of the people.
In 2003, Gao Yaojie was named one of the "Top Ten People of the Year Who Moved China".
The award speech introduced her like this:
This is an old man who is faltering, but she is taking firm steps on the road to realizing the life ideal of "I wish everyone is healthy, why don't I be poor alone". She dispelled people's prejudices and fears with her profound knowledge and rational thinking, and she warmed the helpless and cold of the weak with her mother's love and selfless enthusiasm. She did her best to promote the arduous project of human prevention and treatment of AIDS, and she turned all the energy in her life into a ray of sunshine, hoping to shine into the hearts of AIDS patients and illuminate their future.
Qing is not only kind, but also a hero
If Gao Yaojie had devoted her life only to AIDS relief, the rest of her life might have ushered in greater glory.
Her fault lies in the fact that she withstood the pressure and bravely told the truth.
Gao Yaojie said that the blood disaster originated from the local officialdom"gdp"The scourge of running a blood station, collecting blood, and selling blood among the people did not originate from the people as understood by Westerners"Sexual liberation"。
It was precisely because of Gao Yaojie's "political immaturity" that she eventually brought disaster.
In 2007, Gao Yaojie received an invitation to the "Global Women in Leadership Award" from the United States.
For the sake of face and to cover up some truths, the relevant parties mobilized all the forces they could mobilize, not only to prevent Gao Yaojie from going abroad to accept the award, but also to force her to make a gesture of giving up voluntarily.
Gao Yaojie did not choose to compromise.
Because what lingers in her mind are the real pictures and scenes of the victims of the disaster parting one by one.
For this reason, she even wrote in 2017 in "Gao Yaojie: A Statement to the Majority of Readers - Will"."I, Gao Yaojie, no matter what time I am in, at any address, at any time, to anyone, I will not say the phrase "final refusal, statement in old age". I want to let my friends in the world know through this statement: my efforts and achievements during my lifetime cannot become a tool for others to sell their reputation after my death. This will is hereby kept. ”
In the end, Gao Yaojie went to Washington, D.C., to receive the "Global Women in Leadership Award", which was the sixth of the seven awards she has won internationally so far, but it was also the first time she was able to go abroad to receive the award.
At that awards ceremony, an old American country woman held Gao Yaojie's hand and hurriedly expressed her admiration. She compared Gao Yaojie to Mother Teresa, saying that "Professor Gao's working conditions are even more difficult than Mother Teresa, and Professor Gao is not only a good person, but also a hero".
Gao Yaojie's behavior finally offended the relevant parties.
On the morning of August 9, 2009, Gao Yaojie, who was forced to leave her motherland, wrote in an email to a friend in China: "I left China in order to let the world know the truth about the bloody disaster in the Central PlainsI'm still going to come back, and I'm going to die on the plane back to China. ”
At that time, Gao Yaojie was 82 years old.
There is a bloody disaster spreading underground in 9.6 million square kilometers, but there is no room for an old man standing on the surface to tell the truth!
One can not speak, but do not speak nonsense
In a precious **, Gao Yaojie once said something like this:
"I think it's okay for a person not to speak, but don't talk nonsense, I'm not politically topped, but in fact, I really speak for the people, the children in the AIDS area are so pitiful, they have no food, and some are starving to death.
The deceased is gone, but the living are awake.
It is a pity that this amiable and respectable old man did not realize the ideal of "I will die on the plane back to China" in the end.
And the reason for all this is nothing more than that she told the world about the darkness that happened in Henan.
Although the "bloody disaster" incident more than 20 years ago has now become a "thing of the past", the history that caused countless people to die must be a bloody reality if there is a record in the history books.
She has passed away, but her dedication to the cause of AIDS in rural Henan, and her contribution to saving thousands of people with the rest of her life, have been engraved on the monument.
Loneliness stretches my sleeves, thousands of miles in the sky and dances for the loyal soul.
This is the first time I wrote a memorial speech for Gao Yaojie after hearing the news of her death and learning about her deeds.
I hope that from today onwards, every Chinese should remember the name Gao Yaojie in our hearts, and she should be recorded in history.
On Gao Yaojie's tombstone, such an epitaph should be added: She whistled for the common people.
Whoever holds a salary for the people shall not let him freeze to death in the wind and snow;He who opens the way for liberty must not be trapped in thorns. ”
In the unlikely event that you wake up with a carbuncle on your body, I hope you will remember this sentence.