跨国看病：一个小宝宝的故事

This little baby's name is very long, let's call him Little S.

When Little S was only a few days old, he fell ill.

His father and mother were very happy because they had a son.

However, the doctor told them some bad news.

The doctor said there was a big problem inside Little S's body.

There was a kind of bad thing inside his body that couldn't come out.

This would turn his body yellow and also make him very uncomfortable.

The Mongolian doctor looked at Little S and felt it was very difficult to handle.

The doctor said to Little S's parents, "Our hospital here is too small."

"We cannot perform this surgery."

"Because Little S is too small; he is a newborn infant."

"In Mongolia, there are no hospitals that can help such a small child."

The doctor said that if the surgery wasn't done, Little S might die.

This was a very terrible thing.

Upon hearing this, the parents were very sad and also very anxious.

They asked the doctor, "What should we do?"

The doctor thought for a moment and said, "You can go to China."

"Shanghai, China has very big hospitals."

"The doctors there have many solutions."

So, Little S's family went to Shanghai, China very quickly.

They went to a large hospital in Shanghai called Renji Hospital.

In this hospital, the doctors gave Little S a check-up.

The doctor said Little S needed to replace something inside his body with a new one.

"This thing must be given to him by someone else."

Who could give this thing to Little S?

The doctor examined Little S's father.

The doctor found that the father's health was very good and he could help Little S.

The father loved his son very much.

Although this would be painful, the father was willing.

The father was going to give a part of his own body to his son.

This was a major surgery.

The surgery took six hours.

The doctors were very tired, but they were very serious.

The doctors put a small part of the father's body into Little S's body.

This surgery was performed very successfully.

After the surgery, Little S needed to stay in the hospital to rest.

Let's talk about the money issue.

Doing this surgery required a lot of money.

In total, it was about two hundred thousand yuan.

For Little S's family, this was a lot of money.

However, to save the child, they had to think of a way.

Their relatives and friends all gave them money.

There were also some strangers who helped them.

Everyone hoped that Little S could get better.

Before the surgery, Little S's body was yellow.

His belly was very big, and he looked very uncomfortable.

After the surgery, he was no longer yellow.

His face turned white and rosy.

His belly also became soft.

Little S's mother looked at her son and was very happy.

She said that the child looked completely healthy now.

This was a very good result.

Actually, there are many people like Little S.

Now, many foreigners come to China to see doctors.

Why do they want to come to China?

The first reason is that Chinese doctors are very experienced.

The second reason is that seeing a doctor in China is relatively cheap.

For example, there was a British woman.

Her stomach had been hurting for over a year.

Seeing a doctor in the UK required waiting a long time.

It might take several months to see a doctor.

She felt it was too slow because she was in a lot of pain.

Later, she decided to come to China.

In the Chinese hospital, she saw a doctor very quickly.

The doctor examined her and gave her medicine.

Moreover, she spent very little money.

It only cost a few thousand yuan, much cheaper than in the UK.

She talked about this matter online.

Many foreigners found it very interesting.

They said, "So seeing a doctor in China is this fast and this cheap."

This is why more and more people are coming to Chinese hospitals.

Besides patients coming to China, Chinese technology has also gone abroad.

Now, there are many computers in hospitals.

These computers are very smart.

We call them "Intelligent Doctors."

Computers can help doctors diagnose illnesses.

For example, in Saudi Arabia, there are Chinese computer doctors.

This computer can speak English and also Arabic.

The patient tells the computer where they feel uncomfortable.

The computer then tells the patient what medicine to take.

This is very convenient.

Shanghai's Renji Hospital also has a very powerful system.

This system can help nurses work.

Before, nurses were very busy and tired.

Now with smart computers, the nurses' workload has decreased a lot.

In this way, the hospital can take care of more patients.

This is not only good for China but also good for other countries.

Many countries, such as Indonesia, also want to use this Chinese system.

Because this allows people living in faraway places to see a doctor too.

These stories we just talked about are actually "cross-border medical care."

It means people from different countries going to other countries to see a doctor.

Or, the medical technology of one country going to help another country.

Little S's story is one of the best examples.

Because of cross-border medical care, this Mongolian baby could survive.

Because of cross-border medical care, that British woman could cure her illness quickly.

Now, the world has become smaller, and doctors and patients can help each other.

This is a very good thing.