He was a doctor and a fighter for internationalism. He saved the lives of the wounded in the war, and the wounded said that "it is happy to be his patient".
He once said: "As long as there are bloody wounds in this world, my heart will not be at peace." ”
He is Bethune, the internationalist warrior!
Today is the 134th anniversary of Bethune's birth, and National Memory looks back with you on the 655 days he spent saving lives in China.
Bethune. His full name is Norman Bethune.
March 3, 1890.
Born in Northern Ontario, Canada.
The small town of Gravenhurst.
Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
July 7, 1937.
The "77 Incident" broke out.
Hear this.
Bethune was indignant.
He decided to go to China.
He believed that China needed him the most at that time.
is where he can make the most difference.
One night at the end of March 1938.
Bethune was apprehensive.
Step into a cave.
Talk to ***.
He was in the pocket of his shirt that was close to his chest.
Pull out a small wallet.
Solemnly handed to ***
Open the wallet.
It was the party card of a member of the Communist Party of Canada.
Talking. Bethune pleaded to go to the front.
He told ***
Seventy-five percent of the seriously injured can be saved."
The War of Resistance in China at that time.
It has entered the stage of strategic stalemate.
Due to the lack of medical treatment.
The wounded were not treated in a timely manner.
Bethune's arrival can be said to be a relief in the snow.
June 17, 1938.
Bethune finally arrived at the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.
The second day after arriving at the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.
He hurried to the ground.
More than 30 kilometers away.
Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Rear Hospital.
He spent a week.
More than 520 wounded and sick were examined one by one.
with four weeks.
Surgery was performed on 147 wounded.
In order to fulfill the promise to ***.
Saved 75% of the seriously injured.
Bethune proposed.
with their own medicines and medical equipment.
Establish a model hospital.
September 15, 1938.
The model hospital held a warm and grand opening ceremony.
Bethune was thrilled.
Gave an enthusiastic speech.
In everything, put the patient first.
If you don't value them above you, then you don't deserve to work in the health sector. ”
When I first arrived in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
Bethune proposed to *** to set up a health school.
Ask him to be the principal.
Bethune politely declined.
He said: I am a doctor, and I have to go to the front line to rescue the wounded.
I can't be tied to the back, but I can do something specific about running a school. ”
In between treating the wounded.
Bethune for the health school.
Educational policies, teaching plans, and teaching materials have been drawn up.
Teachers for each subject have also been identified.
September 18, 1939.
The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Health School was formally established.
Bethune was very pleased to attend the opening ceremony.
and donated microscopes to the school.
Small X-ray machine and medical books brought from Canada.
The fighting on the front lines is tense.
The wounded kept coming.
Bethune operated on one operation after another.
October 28, 1939.
In a hurry. Bethune's left hand was pierced with a broken middle finger.
He slipped his finger into the disinfectant.
The operation continued.
Until the last stitch is finished.
before following the stretcher to evacuate.
The next day. Bethune's hand became inflamed.
But he insisted on one.
Wounded patients with erysipelas and cellulitis undergo surgery.
Erysipelas is a highly contagious disease.
Bethune's injured hand.
Again with a fatal infection.
November 8th.
Bethune developed a high fever.
Until the day of the 9th.
Fever to 40 degrees Celsius.
Day 15 after injury.
Early morning of November 12, 1939.
Canadian communist fighter Bethune.
Huangshikou Village, Tang County, Hebei Province, China.
Died. He was 49 years old.
December 21, 1939.
Affectionately.
Edited by the Political Department and the Ministry of Health of the Eighth Route Army.
Norman, Bethune Memorial
Wrote the article "In Memory of Bethune".
Let us all learn from his spirit of being selfless. From this point of view, one can become a person who greatly benefits the people. A person has great or small abilities, but as long as he has this spirit, he is a noble person, a pure person, a moral person, a person who is free from low-level interests, and a person who is beneficial to the people. ”
Bethune's 655 days in China.
In a hail of bullets.
Countless lives of the wounded have been saved.
Build hospitals and schools.
A large number of medical and nursing talents have been trained.
He has made great contributions to the cause of the Chinese people's War of Resistance.
The Chinese will never forget.
Bethune, who traveled thousands of miles to China to save the wounded.
*: CCTV National Memory.
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