Peking University, October 16, 2021: In 1950, Dr. Qin Jisheng was admitted to the Medical School of Peking
University. After graduation, she proceeded to Inner Mongolia
(Autonomous Region) in a response to the call of the Communist Party of
China to assist the country's frontier areas. From there began the
journey of Dr. Qin Jisheng, her daughter Dr. Liao Qinping, and her
granddaughter Dr. Lv Tao.
Although life in Inner Mongolia was very hard at the time, Dr. Qin
Jisheng stayed there for 30 straight years. When she retired, the local
maternal mortality rate had dropped to one-seventeenth of the figure of
the 1950s. She was granted the country's highest award in gynecology and
obstetrics - Outstanding Gyneocologists and Obstetricians: Lin Qiaozhi
Cup.
For Dr. Liao Qinping, who grew up in Inner Mongolia with her mother Dr.
Qin Jisheng, she chose to follow in her mother's footsteps and became a
busy obstetrician and gynecologist herself.
While performing her internship, Dr. Liao Qinping witnessed a young
woman's dreadful suffering and death caused by an incurable malignant
tumor. After that, she made up her mind to conquer malignant
gynecological tumors in patients. Choosing to also volunteer to work in a
medical team in Qinghai Province, Dr. Liao Qinping was not only a
doctor but also a sister, nanny and accountant to the women living in
the border area.
In the
end, she was also granted the highest national award in gynecology and
obstetrics for her contributions to the treatment of gynecologic tumors.
Like her grandmother and mother, Dr. Lv Tao is currently also an
obstetrician and gynecologist who enrolled in Peking University Health
Science Center in 2001. Her focus of research is on common problems
affecting women's lives such as urinary incontinence.
Following the path that her grandmother and mother took decades ago, she
has also volunteered to work in a remote area - Tibet Autonomous
Region.
In the 1950s, Dr. Qin Jisheng strived to save the lives of pregnant
women and their babies in the frontier area. In the 1990s, Dr. Liao
Qinping strived to save the lives of patients with malignant
gynecological tumors with meticulous research. And in the 2020s, Dr. Lv
Tao is currently hard at work helping Chinese women to live better. This
is the story of their family - three generations of obstetricians and
gynecologists who selflessly chose to devote themselves to their cause.
Writer:Estella Qiming Zhang
Editor: Amanda Hu, Pu Hairui
Photo: Peking University Health Science Center
Designer:Chin Xiao Yun Pauline
Source:China News Service
