Nurse on island in Fujian serves with care and love By YE ZIZHEN | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-17 14:19 Share CLOSE Wei Deying, from Nanri island in Putian, Fujian province, attends a ceremony honoring the National Model Workers of 2020 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov 24. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Nanri, an island township in Putian, Fujian province, has a population of about 58,000 but only one clinic－Nanri Health Center. Wei Deying, 51, is one of the 90 medical workers.
Wei looks skinny in her loose-fitting nurse s uniform. She has been working as a nurse and midwife at the center since graduating from junior college in 1989. What she has instead of paper degrees are practical skills acquired over 30 years of practice to ease the pains of her patients.
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