“Mom, thank you for giving birth to an excellent daughter” — Visit to Shenzhen’s first cornea donor Xiang Chunmei’s mother activity record
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To spring plum cornea beneficiary Qin Huifen thanks to the mother gave birth to a good daughter.
Wang Lanying, an 82-year-old woman from Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, opened her eyes slowly and said, “You can see very clearly,” after the gauze was removed from her eyes at Huaxia Eye Hospital in Yichang, Hubei Province, on July 4.
Wang Lanying is the mother of Xiang Chunmei, a young teacher and the first cornea donor in Shenzhen 23 years ago. The cataract surgery was performed by Dr. Yao Xiaoming, an ophthalmologist in Shenzhen. This is 23 years after the gratitude to Xiang Chunmei back to love extended a good story.
The gift of love
Shenzhen free donation cornea first person
In April 1999, Xiang Chunmei, a 29-year-old teacher from Shenzhen and a girl from Tianmen, Hubei Province, was suffering from rectal cancer. She submitted an application to Nanshan District People’s Hospital in Shenzhen, hoping to donate all her useful organs, including two corneas, after her death.
Xiang died on the night of June 13 that year. According to her wishes, ophthalmologist Dr. Yao Xiaoming extracted her corneas and successfully transplanted them into Liu and another young girl who came to work in China, giving them sight again.
As the first person in Shenzhen to donate corneas free of charge, Xiang Chunmei’s love has generated a huge response. Just half a month, went to Shenzhen Eye Hospital said toTo recognizeThe number of corneas donated reached 100.
In 2000, the country’s first eye bank was set up in Shenzhen, and countless Xiangchunmei donated their corneas free of charge.
In October 2003, China’s first regulation on organ transplantation, the Regulation on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, was issued. Three years later, The State Council promulgated the Regulations on Human Organ Transplantation.
In the past 23 years, people in Shenzhen have never forgotten Xiang Chunmei. A statue was erected in her honor in front of the Shenzhen Eye Hospital. Her classmates’ Association of Tianmen Middle School in Shenzhen holds commemorative activities every year. On June 11 this year, composer Liu Xiang from the Musicians Association of Hubei Province composed the song “Have a Pair of Eyes” specially for her.
Love in Return
To visitThe motherThank you for your good daughter
When the Shenzhen Lions Club learned about the song, it decided to use this opportunity to remember Xiang Chunmei and other donors, and let the donors’ families feel the love in return. They quickly organized a visit to Xiang Chunmei’s mother, to thank her daughter and to perform cataract surgery for her.
Therefore, an activity to visit the mother of Xiang Chunmei, the first cornea donor in Shenzhen, with “love in return and gratitude”, was carried out in many places in Shenzhen, Hubei and Guizhou to contact Xiang Chunmei’s mother and find the beneficiaries.
From Xiang Chunmei’s schoolmate in Tianmen, she learned that her mother, Wang Lanying, had moved from Tianmen to Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County in Yichang, Hubei Province. The old man suffered from cataracts in recent years and needed surgery to restore his vision. Huaxia Eye Hospital in Yichang, Hubei Province, immediately offered to facilitate the operation free of charge.
The two beneficiaries, Mrs. Liu, have died. Qin Huifen, 50, in Songtao County, Tongren, Guizhou province, immediately said she would drive there to give thanks.
An extension of love
“Have a Pair of Eyes” conveys love
On July 3, representatives of the above units set out for Yichang, Hubei Province from three places.
At 4 PM, Dr. Yao Xiaoming, an ophthalmologist, and representatives from the Shenzhen Lions Club met Xiang’s mother, Wang Lanying, at Huaxia Eye Hospital in Yichang, Hubei Province. Dr. Yao examined the old man before surgery and immediately performed a successful cataract operation.
The group accompanied the elderly man on the one-hour drive to his home in the Bailu community in Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County. A special visitation ceremony was held at the old man’s home. Shenzhen Lions Club presented gifts and condolence money, Shenzhen Care Action Public Welfare Foundation (Yao Xiaoming Light Foundation), Shenzhen Eye Hospital and Shenzhen Eye Bank presented leaves picked from the “Tree of Light” in memory of organ donors in Shenzhen, photos of Xiang Chunmei’s statue and condolence money. Hubei Tianmen Middle School presented a book of school history, a recent copy of “Tianmen Daily” in memory of Xiang Chunmei and money for condolences. The two songwriters presented a USB flash drive and sound equipment for the song, and the song “Have a Pair of Eyes” was played on the scene again.
When Qin Huifen, the cornea beneficiary of Xiang Chunmei who drove for thousands of miles suddenly appeared in front of the old man, the old man hugged her and cried, Qin Huifen cried with tears in her eyes, “Mom, thank you for giving birth to an excellent daughter, no selfless dedication to her sister, there is no my happy life now.”
(Author: Xiong Hong)
“Mom, thank you for giving birth to an excellent daughter” — Visit to Shenzhen’s first cornea donor Xiang Chunmei’s mother activities
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