Accomplished doctor finds rewards in remote region
The van started and gradually drove away, but Ye Ying didn't look back. It wasn't because she didn't want to. She was afraid she couldn't hold back the tears when she saw her beloved family seeing her off in the cold February wind in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province.
Ye, 47, chief physician in the intensive care unit of the Hospital affiliated with Xuzhou Medical University, is the only woman among the 20 doctors on assignment for a year and a half to support medical development at People's Hospital of Kezilesu Kirgiz autonomous prefecture in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
"I had a fierce inner struggle when I was heard about the assistance assignment. My parents and parents-in-law are in their 80s and need my care," she said. "My daughter is applying for the graduate school at a medical university and needs my coaching."
