May 16th, 2008, INGPAO Hong Kong

 "Thank you! Thank you for your medical treatment! But please don't leave so many people with me; please go, and save others!" Kang Jie, a 11 year-old girl, who studied in the Yingxiu County of Sichuan Province, was buried under the debris of the school building, fracturing her right leg. Isolated from the outside for 3 days and nights,she was finally rescued by a helicopter and sent to a hospital in Chengdu for further medical treatment on the 15th May. While the team of  five doctors and nurses were sewing up her wound, Kang Jie, however, asked them to save other people first. Her strength and consideration moved the doctors and nurses to tears.

Kang Jie used to study in the sixth grade of a primary school in Yingxiu County. When the earthquake struck, the school buildings collapsed, and she was buried under the debris. Strenuously, she made great efforts and climbed out of the debris by herself. On the 15th when Kang Jie recalled in the hospital, she said at that time she heard the cries of some teachers. She and other survivors tracked down the cries, and pushed aside the tiles and stones, and finally saved several of those teachers.

Kang Jie's injury is not as minor as she makes it out to be. Her right leg is fractured, and there is an 8 centimetre wound which was cut by the tiles. She said sadly,"I met my Mum on the campus after the quake. Mum had been lightly injured but she told me that my Daddy had sacrificed his life trying to save other people!" Due to impaired transportation, mother and daughter were trapped in the razed county of Yingxiu for more than 70 hours, until the helicopters arrived on the 15th. Carrying her beloved daughter, Jie's Mother ran to the helicopter and handed her to the rescuers, choosing to stay in the stricken region.

Kang Jie was sent by the helicopter to the People's Hospital of Sichuan Province in Chengdu. There five doctors and nurses sewed up her wound, comforting her, "Don't be afraid. You're safe now!" The strong little girl even did not shed a tear, moreover, she said to the doctors and nurses, "Please don't leave so many people with me. Please go and save others!" Seeing how this little girl was this strong and considerate, everyone was deeply moved.

Hu Weijian, the Head Doctor says, the hospital have treated 1,200 victims, among which 30% had fractures. Through days and nights, more than one hundred nurses and doctors have been guarding their posts, rescuing the injuries, with 500 surgeries conducted till now. Owing to the unblocking of more roads, Hu believes that in that there would be more victims sent to the hospital. He says the hospital has mapped out a systematic corresponding strategy to cope with the emergency.

Doctor Hu points out that, the emergency rooms and operating rooms have been emptied out for the massive number of injuries. They have also lined out a Green Pass exclusively for the ambulances. "If there is a sudden increase of casualties being sent to the hospital, the volunteers would carry the casualties from the ambulances into the hospital, leaving the ambulances free to head back to the stricken region to rescue more casualties."

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