In 2017, the short-term medical aid program from Guangdong Province to Fiji was launched. This September, a new team of three doctors from Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, including Chang Yunbing, Director of the Spine Surgery Department, Luo Songyuan, attending doctor of the Cardiology Department, and Wang Long, attending doctor of the Endocrinology Department, began a three-month technical assistance and training mission in Fiji.

Luo Songyuan explained that diabetes is a prevalent disease in Fiji, and coronary heart disease, ischaemic heart disease, and amputations triggered by diabetes are also relatively common. However, the diagnostic and treatment capabilities at local public hospitals in Fiji are very limited. Many patients with complex diseases can ultimately only be referred abroad for surgery, and with that comes high costs.

Despite many difficulties in the assistance work, the arrival of the Guangdong medical team has clearly improved the local medical services. Varanisese, Senior Medical Officer of Navua Hospital, said that, the hospital bears medical work for about 30,000 residents across three neighbouring provinces with only fewer than ten doctors;some of the more complex cases all need to be referred to hospitals in Suva and seen by specialists, but the process is very long and slow, so the Guangdong specialists there have greatly helped them.

"Patients in Fiji really like Chinese doctors. Every day during ward rounds, when patients see us, they warmly greet us," Wang Long said, "Chinese doctors have a good reputation locally. This reputation has been built through the selfless assistance of groups of Chinese doctors after another in Fiji."

The Head of the Radiology Department at Colonial War Memorial Hospital (CWMH), who received training in China, returned home after completing her studies. She did not choose to take a higher-pay private hospital job but instead went back to the CWMH. CWMH Medical Superintendent Luke Nasedra said that they still have many young doctors studying at Chinese medical schools and returning to work after graduation. This is the result of medical cooperation between China and Fiji, and the real beneficiaries are the ordinary people of Fiji.

收获跨越太平洋的点赞！广东援助斐济医疗小队又“上岛”了

2017年，广东驻斐济短期医疗援助项目启动。今年9月，广东省人民医院脊柱外科主任昌耘冰、心内科主治医师罗淞元和内分泌科主治医师王龙成为新一批广东援斐济驻点医生，开始为期三个月的驻点技术帮扶和培训。

罗淞元介绍，糖尿病是斐济的高发疾病，由此引发的冠心病、缺血性心脏病以及因糖尿病引发的截肢也比较高发。与糖尿病和心血管疾病的高发情况相对的是，斐济当地公立医院的诊疗手段十分有限。当地很多患上复杂疾病的病人，最终只能转诊到其他国家做手术，随之而来的是高昂的费用。

尽管帮扶的难点不少，但广东医疗队的到来，让当地诊疗水平有了明显的提升。纳乌瓦医院医疗主管Varanisese表示，医院覆盖周边三个省约三万名居民的医疗工作，却只有不到十名医生。“一些比较复杂的病例我们都需要转诊到苏瓦的医院，由专科医生来看，但这个流程很长、很慢。现在广东医生来了，他们都是各专科的专家，给了我们很大的帮助。”

“当地患者很喜欢中国医生，每天查房时，病人见到我们，都会热情地打招呼。”王龙说，中国医生在当地口碑很好。这种好口碑的建立，是一批又一批中国医生在斐济无私援助结下的果实。

殖民战争纪念医院的放射科主任，曾到中国培训，学成归国后，她没有选择去收入更高的私立医院工作，而是回到殖民战争纪念医院。“我们这里还有很多年轻医生在中国的医学院学习，毕业后回来工作。”医院医务院长Luke Nasedra说，“这是中国和斐济医疗合作的成果，真正受益的，是普通的斐济人民。”

文丨羊城晚报记者 付怡
图、视频丨羊城晚报记者 温泽广
翻译丨郑奕玲
审校丨王枥焓