I visited the Wuxi Second People's Hospital on April 24, which is also the Jiangnan University Medical Center. Since the establishment of this multinational medical organization on March 16, 1908, it has been 117 years of generation after generation of people in the second courtyard with the theme of hope and life.
Uzor Chinedu Faustine (middle) and other international students from Jiangnan University visit Wuxi Second People's Hospital on April 24. [Photo provided to wuxi.gov.cn]
Li Kele, an American medical Anglican missionary, founded the hospital. It was the first hospital in Wuxi, the name of which was Puren Hospital, before it was later renamed Sunan Public Wuxi Hospital in November 1951.
The modernization and renaming continued to what can be referred to as a world-class hospital today with exceptional robotics surgery services, AI-oriented internet hospital services, and an International Medical Department offering translation services, foreign food, and multilingual staff for foreigners in China, a department that can be found in just a few hospitals.
The visit was solely about perceiving Chinese healthcare and building a healthy future.
Uzor Chinedu Faustine and other international students from Jiangnan University listen to a doctor's introduction of the Wuxi Second People's Hospital on April 24. [Photo provided to wuxi.gov.cn]
A group photo of international students at Jiangnan University and doctors from Wuxi Second People's Hospital. [Photo provided to wuxi.gov.cn]
The author, hailing from Nigeria, is a postgraduate research fellow in Food Science at Jiangnan University.
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