Early in the morning.
It was dawn.
Waves of cheers could be heard from the courtyard of Guozheng Charity Hospital. Someone shouted something loudly in Portuguese and English, and there was a mixture of laughter and screams.
Ling Ran rubbed his eyes and came out of the waiting room. He looked at the weather outside and could not help but sigh in relief.
The rain stopped.
"I heard that it's still raining in the south, but there should be a short period of rain." A Chinese-American girl from Cuba Town was sitting in the corridor. When she saw Ling Ran come out, she quickly stood up and introduced him to him.
Ling Ran nodded and asked, "Will there be a helicopter coming?"
"I heard that there will be a two-hour period of rain before the helicopter can come. The earliest would be tomorrow," the girl quickly answered and asked, "Doctor Ling, do you want to eat breakfast? You can eat in the restaurant, and we can send food over. "
Ling Ran touched his stomach. He was a little hungry. Unlike other people who slept very early at night, Ling Ran was willing to drink an Energy Serum and read quietly even if he did not have any surgeries at night.
A week was enough for him to know a little about anesthesiology. This alone made him surpass 90% of surgeons.
However, this habit also made Ling Ran always eat breakfast very early, and he ate a lot.
"I'll eat on the balcony." Ling Ran had not seen the sun for a few days, and he liked it very much.
"Okay." The other party did not ask further. She first said a few words through the walkie-talkie. After a while, someone trotted up and set up the balcony.
After a while, when Tian Qi came up, there were already eight small plates on the small square table on the balcony, with a seasoning and two bowls of soup.
Ling Ran and Tian Qi sat face to face. They looked at the sun from the side, and they were in a good mood.
"It's better when the sun is shining." Tian Qi wore a blue hat and a custom-made dress. She looked elegant and a little mischievous.
Ling Ran was still wearing a slightly rough scrub, and he naturally spread jam on the bread. Although the passage to Cuba Town was opened, it could only be passed by trucks, and the food in the hospital was not very rich.
The eight-course breakfast almost covered most of the varieties.
"If there's a helicopter coming tomorrow, you can go back first." He then said, "There are three seriously injured people who need to be operated on as soon as possible, but there should still be enough seats for a few people."
Tian Qi took the bread and smiled sweetly. She said, "I'm not in a hurry to go back. The hospital is very safe, and we have plenty of supplies. On the other hand, it's not very safe to take the helicopter back and forth during the free period."
She had plenty of reasons. Tian Qi did not try to persuade Ling Ran either.
There were currently more than one hundred patients in Guozheng Charity Hospital. Their injuries varied from light to serious, but they could not leave Ling Ran's side completely. On the other hand, just as Tian Qi said, it was not completely safe to take a helicopter to and fro right now.
It was risky to fly during the empty window. It was not very dangerous, but in the end, there was still a lot of risk. If they were not in a hurry to leave, it would be better to stay for a few more days and wait for the storm to stop. At that time, even if the land transportation was still inconvenient, it would be safer and more comfortable to take a helicopter back and forth.
Guozheng Charity Hospital was designed with rainstorms and floods in mind. The place where the hospital was located did not have the risk of mudslides. If they stayed here, it would just be inconvenient for them.
Ling Ran did not think too much about it. He just nodded and said, "Then, stay in the hospital and use the satellite phone to communicate."
"Okay." Tian Qi nodded repeatedly. She took a bite of the bread with jam and smiled in satisfaction.
Ling Ran continued to spread jam on himself. The method he used was similar to how he applied biogel after hepatectomy. He could also easily check the uniformity of his skin. It was simple and comfortable.
The only regret was that the jam on the bread was not good enough.
…..
In the afternoon.
The people who stayed in the hospital and Cuba Town began to discuss the problem of who should leave first and who should leave later. The atmosphere of the discussion was not intense. After all, the helicopter's carrying capacity was limited, and there were only a few of them. So, most people needed to wait for the land transportation to be cleared before they could leave.
For the residents of Cuba Town who stayed in the local area, they would be homeless even if they left by helicopter. It was better to wait for the rain to stop.
Naldo, who had three severed toes and had hemorrhoids, was different. He howled in pain in the ward. When he saw Ling Ran coming for a ward round, he screamed in a shrill voice, "I can't take it anymore. Send me to Rio de Janeiro …"
"If your emotions are unstable, your toes will easily die." Ling Ran first reminded him before he went forward to perform a physical examination.
In just a few days, the number of physical examinations Ling Ran performed was already the number of times he performed in the previous month.
When he was in Yun Hua Hospital or when he went out for freelance surgery, the patients in the ward could be equipped with electrocardiogram monitors if they needed them. There was no need to consider whether there was electricity or not.
However, Guozheng Charity Hospital was in the middle of a flood, so it naturally did not have the relevant conditions.
Things like blood pressure measurement had to be done by the medical staff themselves. In terms of the number of medical staff, Guozheng Charity Hospital was also far less than Yun Hua Hospital.
Most of the time, Ling Ran had to perform a physical examination to determine the patient's condition.
When Naldo screamed, he wanted to jump out of bed, but when Ling Ran examined him, he instantly quietened down. He was also afraid that his body would break down.
After Ling Ran performed a simple physical examination, Naldo screamed again, "I want to go to Rio de Janeiro …"
"If you queue up now, you will probably have to queue until the day after tomorrow." Ling Ran did not object.
While Selena translated, she also helped to explain, "There is only one helicopter coming and going today. Tomorrow, there may be two helicopters coming and going, but it's not certain whether they can make two trips."
"Two helicopters, and it's not my turn?" Naldo screamed.
"Your toes have been connected. Now, you only have the problem of hemorrhoids left. You will probably be ranked around thirty." Ling Ran directly reported the order.
Naldo felt like he was sitting on a pot of cactus. He raised his head and looked at Ling Ran. "I'm only ranked thirty with this? How can I get to the front? "
"Two more broken fingers, or orchiectomy," Ling Ran answered Naldo's question straightforwardly.
Naldo was angry and in pain. "I'm already in so much pain, and I still can't walk?"
Ling Ran nodded. "Even if you leave Guozheng Charity Hospital and go to Rio de Janeiro, the pain will still be the same."
"I can have surgery when I go to Rio de Janeiro!" Naldo was about to go crazy.
Ling Ran said calmly, "You can also have surgery in Guozheng Charity Hospital."
Although Ling Ran did not want to perform hemorrhoid surgery on Naldo, if the patient requested it, he would not mind too much. Anyway, it was all surgery. Even if there was a little discrimination between the superior and the inferior, the discrimination could not be too excessive.
Naldo wanted to say that he could endure it, but the "goose egg" under him did not agree.
"Perform surgery on me, I can't wait for three days." Naldo knew that even if he went to Rio de Janeiro with hemorrhoids, he would not be able to have surgery whenever he wanted to.
The only place where he could have surgery was the Emergency Department when his life was in danger. Other than that, patients could only queue up and wait for surgery.
Brazil's medical system adopted the European and American-style doctor training strategy, which meant that doctors were a scarce resource. To alleviate the shortage of doctors, Brazil spent money every year to "buy" more than twenty thousand Cuban doctors to help.
For a reporter like Naldo, if he could not afford to hire a private doctor, when he went to a big city, he could only endure the pain and wait. It would be better for him to have surgery.
However, after the hemorrhoid surgery, he might not have the chance to wander around Guozheng Charity Hospital and take photos.
Naldo looked at the white ceiling, and his ambition seemed to have changed along with the blood in his stool.
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