Guo Wei’s wish for the Year of the Ox is stunningly simple. And probably universal. “I wish life would return to normal,” he said simply as he sat in front of a screen monitoring heart beats. “I wish people can go about their normal activities once more and production and other economic activities resume. Not only in China but worldwide.”
The 41-year-old’s contribution to the efforts for normalization includes working on New Year’s Eve. But it seems hardly any sacrifice compared to how he spent his New Year holiday in 2020.
The associate chief physician at the trauma center of Peking University People’s Hospital in Beijing, Guo was sent to Jiangxi Province in east China in January 2020 to assist in poverty alleviation.
He was deputed to a county hospital to help improve its capacity. Then came the news that a new highly infectious disease had been reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China. So Guo was asked to go to the city hardest hit by the novel coronavirus disease in China.
This story is from the March 2021 edition of China Africa (English).
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