Road to redemption

A very, very old doctor greets a few young patients and their parents inside his small private clinic. The quiet man gently smiles, nods to the children, strokes their heads and asks them to open their mouths wide as he checks their throats. The doctor is nearly deaf, but still works three hours in the morning six days a week, treating up to 20 children every day. One of them is 8-year-old Li Qingshuai, whose family had already spent more than 10,000 yuan ($1,460) in a desperate bid to treat her continuous fever.