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Chapter 880 - Chapter 880 880 Counting on the doctors soft heart

Chapter 880: [880] Counting on the doctor’s soft heart Chapter 880: [880] Counting on the doctor’s soft heart “Do we need to go to the hospital?” After hearing this, the child’s grandfather waved his hand, “Forget it, I’ll carry him to the clinic.”

Village Chief Li held onto the other man, “You need to listen to the doctors from Guoxie University. Do you not care about your grandson’s life?”

“Who said I don’t care about my grandson’s life? The problem is, I don’t understand what they’re saying. They make a toothache sound like such a big deal.” The child’s grandfather was just short of saying you doctors are out to deceive and swindle money.

“They haven’t taken a single penny for today’s volunteer clinic, what would they cheat you for?”

Village Chief Li defended the doctors, discussing how everything should be approached with reason.

In situations like these, the patient is always the greatest victim. Especially for a child who is economically and daily reliant on their elders, their life and death isn’t in the hands of the doctors but in the hands of their own family.

The child’s grandfather crouched on the ground, feeling in his pocket for a cigarette to smoke. His son and daughter-in-law were not at home, having gone out to work, leaving several children in his care. The money provided by the child’s parents was simply not enough for hospital treatment.

“Have the parents send money back; I’ll help you contact them,” Village Chief Li, as a local official, understood the villagers’ mentality fairly well and patted the grandfather’s shoulder as he spoke.

As the village official went into the office to make a phone call, the child’s grandfather suddenly got up, as if intending to go somewhere.

“Hey, where are you going–” Kang Mingzhu stood up anxiously and called after him.

It was all too common for parents to abandon their sick children like this. The ones left at the hospital or dumped at the doorstep of welfare institutions were the most numerous. These parents were betting on the medical staff’s soft hearts, waiting for the sick children to be treated for free before coming back to fetch them.

When the grandfather heard the doctor’s shout, he quickened his pace instead. A crowd of villagers didn’t dare to stop him. Only Village Chief Li rushed after him with the officials, turning back to reassure the doctors, “It’s okay, it’s okay, we know where his home is.”

What difference does it make where the patient’s family lives? Kang Mingzhu was so angry she wanted to stomp her feet, well aware of how cold-blooded these parents could be. Typically, these parents had more than one child at home, so losing one child meant nothing to them. Besides, such people might even flip tables in front of the police or doctors, demanding, “I’m just too poor to afford it, decide for yourself if you want to save the child’s life.”

Ma Yunli, the young girl saved by their junior before, was a typical example. To this day, even the police couldn’t solve the problem with a visit to the Ma Family.

The police would certainly not detain an elderly man like him; detaining the grandfather would leave nobody to care for the other children in his household.

“Teacher Nie, administer antibiotics to the child first,” Xie Wanying suggested.

Everyone else turned back sharply, surprised at her calmness surpassing that of her seniors.

“There are no antibiotics,” Yao Jie spoke up.

How could there be antibiotics for a volunteer clinic that lasted only one or two days? An antibiotic treatment requires a course of several days to be effective, and starting such a treatment without the possibility of completion is pointless. Patients in need of antibiotic treatment can only be encouraged to have their family members take them to a hospital.

“We can get in touch with the clinic, they should have antibiotics. We’ll take care of his leg first,” Xie Wanying said slowly and calmly, finally adding, “I trust the wisdom of Village Chief Li and the village committee.”

Frontline clinical doctors, unlike logistics personnel, don’t usually face social issues directly, but solving these problems can’t be done by doctors alone–it requires everyone, the whole society. This was the insight she had gained from the Ma Yunli incident. She chose to believe that there are more good people in the world.

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