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Female doctor lays hospital's foundation
By Sang Ni and Pan Zheng |
June 27, 2011, Monday
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JIADING District Central Hospital, which used to be known as Puji Hospital, was established in 1947 by a Jiading female doctor - Ge Chenghui.
Born in 1891 in a businessman family, Ge was the only daughter. In her early years she studied in Shanghai Women Medical College. In 1921, she entered the Medical College of Yale University at public expense and graduated in 1924 as a PhD. After returning to her motherland, she became a doctor in Shanghai Shangxiantang Hospital for Women and Children and Renhe Hospital.
In 1930, she went to the US again and worked as a researcher in the University of Michigan. After she returned she became the director of Shangxiantang Hospital. In 1935, she was chosen as the president of Zhejiang Provincial Maternity School. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, she lived in Chongqing and worked in the education department, mainly in charge of making medical education plans and editing text books.
In 1947, she went back to her hometown Jiading to take care of her sick mother, and since then she had concentrated on developing the local medical care. In the same year, she collected enough fund and set up Puji Hospital together with some local businessmen, and she was chosen as the first president of the hospital.
During her years in Puji Hospital she was considered as an expert of hookworm-disease. Actually it was such a disease that could be easily treated after a definite diagnosis. But at that time, most hospitals and clinics didn't have adequate equipment such as microscopes, as doctors could only diagnose through some traditional ways, which was pretty inefficient. Ge was the first one to promote the use of microscope in diagnosing this disease, and she could cure this disease very quickly. Therefore, she became very famous in local region and nearby, as even patients from neighboring Qingpu, Kunshan and Taicang would come to Jiading to visit her.
At that time, when some doctor got some secrets in treating some diseases, he would consider it a way of earning money and keep it secret. But Ge was so noble as to make known of her secret of treating this disease to the public, as she hoped those patients would not be so tired in traveling between counties just for this disease.
Ge had never married and passed away in 1970. She had devoted all her life to the medical care and is still remembered by the Jiading people.
Born in 1891 in a businessman family, Ge was the only daughter. In her early years she studied in Shanghai Women Medical College. In 1921, she entered the Medical College of Yale University at public expense and graduated in 1924 as a PhD. After returning to her motherland, she became a doctor in Shanghai Shangxiantang Hospital for Women and Children and Renhe Hospital.
In 1930, she went to the US again and worked as a researcher in the University of Michigan. After she returned she became the director of Shangxiantang Hospital. In 1935, she was chosen as the president of Zhejiang Provincial Maternity School. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, she lived in Chongqing and worked in the education department, mainly in charge of making medical education plans and editing text books.
In 1947, she went back to her hometown Jiading to take care of her sick mother, and since then she had concentrated on developing the local medical care. In the same year, she collected enough fund and set up Puji Hospital together with some local businessmen, and she was chosen as the first president of the hospital.
During her years in Puji Hospital she was considered as an expert of hookworm-disease. Actually it was such a disease that could be easily treated after a definite diagnosis. But at that time, most hospitals and clinics didn't have adequate equipment such as microscopes, as doctors could only diagnose through some traditional ways, which was pretty inefficient. Ge was the first one to promote the use of microscope in diagnosing this disease, and she could cure this disease very quickly. Therefore, she became very famous in local region and nearby, as even patients from neighboring Qingpu, Kunshan and Taicang would come to Jiading to visit her.
At that time, when some doctor got some secrets in treating some diseases, he would consider it a way of earning money and keep it secret. But Ge was so noble as to make known of her secret of treating this disease to the public, as she hoped those patients would not be so tired in traveling between counties just for this disease.
Ge had never married and passed away in 1970. She had devoted all her life to the medical care and is still remembered by the Jiading people.
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