Jiang Aguli Ai Shan (middle) is making rounds. (Image courtesy of Xinjiang Yili Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital)
Tianshan Net News (Reporter Zhao Zixuan intern Wang Luyao reports) Near May, the apricot blossoms in Nileke County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture are in full bloom, and a piece of almond trees attracts visitors to stop and enjoy. "Xinglin" is also synonymous with the field of traditional Chinese medicine. People often praise the noble quality and excellent medical skills of doctors with "Xinglin is warm in spring".
Butterflies and bees are flying among the flowers, and the "sweet career" of Jiang Aguli Ai Shan, a "grassland doctor" who went out from Nilek County, has never stopped. Every holiday, she rides a horse to a remote farming and pastoral area for a free clinic, and visits poor patients for dressing change and bone setting for free.
Bone-setting inheritance+medical skill innovation = craftsman spirit
When Jiang Aguli, director of the Department of Orthopaedics, Ili Chinese Medicine Hospital, Xinjiang, is mentioned, patients and their families will give thumbs up.
Jiang Aguli was born in an ordinary herdsman’s family in Qunji Ranch, Nilek County.
"I must use traditional Kazakh bone-setting and osteopathy to relieve the pain of more patients." 40 years ago, when 13-year-old Jiang Aguli studied the traditional Kazakh bone-setting and bone-setting therapy with her grandfather and aunt, she set such an ambitious goal.
Jiang Aguli once broke her collarbone when she was a child, and her neck could not move. The pain was unbearable. That night, my father called my aunt on horseback. It took my aunt half an hour to help her fix, reset and apply medicine.
"It won’t hurt after it is fixed." Jiang Aguli said. She immediately made a decision in her mind: she would study orthopedics with her aunt. From then on, every winter and summer vacation, she went to her aunt’s house to learn from her teacher. When she met a patient with mobility difficulties, she rode a long way with her aunt to treat the patient.
Forty years later, Jiang Aguli, while inheriting the ancestral therapy, innovated and developed a new Kazakh medicinal ointment and self-created therapy with independent intellectual property rights, so that her medical technology not only relieved the pain of patients with bone injuries in China, but also attracted patients with bone injuries in neighboring countries such as Kazakhstan.
Exquisite medical skills+free diagnosis and treatment = kindness of doctors
As a doctor, Jiang Aguli saved every patient who was struggling with illness with a passionate heart and hard-working hands. Years have carved a solid and regretless footprint on her life path with full and affectionate brushstrokes.
Jiang Aguli was deeply impressed when he mentioned little Dang Kang in the orphanage.
A few years ago, Dang Kang Jr., who was only five years old, accidentally fell while playing, and his left femoral shaft was broken, requiring hospitalization for surgery.
Upon learning of this situation, Jiang Aguli immediately went to the hospital pharmacy to buy bandages and medicines, and rushed to the orphanage more than 20 kilometers away to treat him, which relieved the child’s pain and exempted him from the cost of hospitalization.
Jiang Aguli often takes her daughter to the orphanage to do rehabilitation for Dang Kang Jr. During this period, my daughter also forged a deep friendship with little Dang Kang, and kept this little brother in her heart.
On October 18, 2016, a 76-year-old man, Kadi Abdulbai, who lives in Sayiboyi Village, Kalatobe Township, Nilek County, suffered a comminuted fracture of his calf due to an accidental fall.
Considering that his mother was too old for surgery, the old man’s son turned to Jiang Aguli for help. Jiang Aguli quickly gave relevant treatment to the elderly and relieved their pain.
After learning about the actual situation of the elderly’s family’s financial difficulties, home distance and so on, Jiang Aguli decided to use the rest time to provide on-site service.
Since then, no matter whether it is windy or rainy or on holidays, she has insisted on dressing change and treatment at the patient’s home to guide her family members to take proper care.
After nearly two months’ hard work, the old man Kadi Abdulbai was finally able to walk in the fields. She excitedly took Jiang Aguli’s hand and said, "Thank you so much for coming all the way to change your medicine and being so patient. I really don’t know how to thank you … …”
Jiang Aguli Ai Shan (second from right) is treating patients. (Image courtesy of Xinjiang Yili Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital)
Cold and hot summer+riding up and down = a long way to practice medicine
In the eyes of others, Jiang Aguli has made great achievements in the medical field. She was successively awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal winner, the national model of national unity and progress, the national advanced worker, the national advanced worker of health and family planning system, the advanced individual of national unity in Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, the "Top Ten Doctors" in Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, and the top talents in Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. She was selected into the "China Good People List" and won the special contribution award of Kazakh medicine of Xinjiang Kazakh Medical Association. She was awarded the title of "Frontier Health Guardian" in the advanced typical selection activity of health and family planning system in Xinjiang for 60 years and was elected as the national "2000".
But in Jiang Aguli’s heart, she just wants to be a qualified doctor. She said, "The task of a doctor is to save lives. When I think that everyone trusts me and comes to me so far, I must cure every patient. This is all my wish. "
On the operating table, Jiang Aguli is a worthy orthopedic surgeon.
Under the operating table, she is a patient with thyroid tumor caused by years of reduction under radiation. At the same time, she also suffers from severe lumbar diseases, osteoporosis and other diseases, and she has to endure great pain every time she visits. The operation lasted for hours at a time, and I couldn’t straighten my waist. In winter and spring, the cold wind blows in the pastoral area, and she needs to wear a waist protector to work all the year round when she goes to the mountain for a free clinic. In the face of these, Jiang Aguli did not complain.
In the scorching sun and the long snowstorm, Jiang Aguli walked on the road of practicing medicine without any regrets. Over the past few years, she has treated more than 100,000 patients, made more than 1,000 visits, and traveled tens of thousands of kilometers to practice medicine.