Chapter 900: Doctor goes first Chapter 900: Doctor goes first “Village chief—” Grandma Wengui called out anxiously from inside the house, slapping her thighs to summon people.
Dahui’s Wife pounded on her husband Dahui’s body, “Have you gone mute? You let their child onto the ambulance and have our son wait here? It’s raining; who knows how long it will be before another ambulance cos. You should know that your son is the only seed of your family.”
Dahui breath heaved heavily from his nostrils, gasping like a bull.
“You—” The old village chief couldn’t stand it and burst out, pointing a finger at Dahui’s Wife’s nose, “Don’t think others don’t know, when you married this man, it was because he was a bit simple-minded and you could control him easily. Now you make a scene here, trying to shift the bla to who? Who caused your son’s fall? Afraid of your husband hitting you, aren’t you?”
After being glared at by the village chief like this, Dahui’s Wife felt intimidated and took a step back.
The village chief turned back and gave Xie Wanying a look, “Doctor, you go on your way, I’ll handle things here. Hurry up and save people; don’t mind this bunch.”
Not sure what had just happened, but trusting the village chief’s words, Xie Wanying nodded, grabbed her dical kit, and hopped onto the ambulance.
The ambulance doors slamd shut, and with the siren blaring, it drove away.
Dahui’s Wife shuddered, and upon seeing her husband glance back at her, she imdiately wiped her eyes with both hands, beating her chest and stamping her feet as she cried and made a scene, “What will happen to my son? The ambulance is gone, gone—”
Was this crying, causing a commotion, and feigning desperation an act put on too convincingly?
The old village chief snorted, walked away with his hands behind his back, leaving Dahui’s Wife to her senseless commotion, and went off to arrange another vehicle to help others.
On the ambulance, Nie Jiamin asked the student, “Will they find another car to help take the child to the hospital?”
“They will,” Xie Wanying reassured her teacher.
Regardless, in a doctor’s eyes, even the most troubleso family mbers might bear so guilt, but the child was innocent. If it weren’t for this family’s unreasonable insistence on taking three people in the ambulance together, they could have taken the child to the hospital first. But at the hospital, the child would probably just need so antiseptic for a surface wound.
The ambulance drove, making its way into the county town.
Back then, there weren’t many county towns undergoing major construction, and the buildings were rather shabby. The county hospital was the sa; its old and mottled white exterior walls towered in the night, only a few floors high, capable of treating only a limited number of patients. Inside, there were only a few operating rooms, incomparable to the nearly hundred surgeries a day perford at Guoxie.
Inadequate facilities, inadequate staff. Doctors capable of performing complicated surgeries were few and far between. Hence, any patient with a sowhat serious condition was sent to the city hospitals.
Looking at the county hospital, Xie Wanying recalled the hospital from her hotown.
Songyuan was a very small city; most of its hospitals were barely better than the county hospitals. Many surgeries were simply not doable. Just like when she encountered Senior Cao before, if Senior Cao hadn’t been at her cousin’s hospital that night, the patient that evening would have had to be transferred to the provincial capital for treatnt, and would’ve undeniably died during the transfer.
The number of doctors in the country seed okay, but in reality, there was a lack of doctors with sufficient technical skills. This was especially true at the grassroots level, which led to dire difficulties in accessing dical care for ordinary people in urgent, critical, and serious conditions.
Contrasting sharply with this was the irreplaceable value placed by ordinary people on the lives of their loved ones.
The ambulance arrived first, reaching the doors of the ergency room at the county hospital. The on-duty doctor, having received the news earlier, ran out to receive the patient.
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