Medical road ahead

"Director Liu, when did you apply for the nutritious breakfast from the government?"

On the way to the village primary school, Qiao Tan asked Liu Yaxiu curiously.

Along the way, Qiao Tan realized that she didn't know much about this mentor and leader. In her original impression, Liu Yaxiu was just a medical expert who was indifferent to fame and fortune, but loved and dedicated to her job, without much personal feelings, and lived a life of her own. She looks like a perfect artificial intelligence. Even though she has known Liu Yaxiu, Huang Zhi, and Yang Yang since she was a child, she has the least contact with Liu Yaxiu. Every time she sees her, "Su Xin Ru Jane" four words.

But after learning about Liu Yaxiu's efforts in poverty alleviation, Qiao Tan couldn't help being awed. It turned out that this indifferent teacher had such a passionate heart and lofty ideals.

"During our isolation period, when I didn't have much work to do, I wrote a written report and asked Dean Chen to hand it over to the poverty alleviation leader." Liu Yaxiu said.

"Why do you want to apply for a nutritious breakfast for the children here? After poverty alleviation, do they still not eat well?" Qiao Tan was puzzled.

"Wealth is not the same as health."

Liu Yaxiu corrected, and said: "Actually, as early as a few years ago, the Daliang Mountain Nutritious Breakfast Project had been popularized. In addition to being supported by the China Population Welfare Foundation's own funds, it also joined some private companies one after another. An extension of the poverty alleviation project is to improve the nutritious diet of children. People here are afraid of poverty. Once they have money, they start eating and eating, regardless of the real needs of the body. Especially children, in this diet Under the big change of habits, it will only go too far."

"I understand. The nutritious breakfast is actually improving the children's diet." Qiao Tan nodded clearly.

"Before I came here, I read an analysis report on the nutrition and health status of children in rural Yi villages in Daliangshan, and found that the low body weight rate of children here generally reached 80.2%. However, with the vertical deepening of poverty alleviation, this situation will definitely improve, but the sudden affluence will also bring negative effects." Liu Yaxiu continued.

"And people here especially like to eat barbecue, and the cooking method is not healthy at all." Qiao Tan added.

"That's right, besides what to eat, how to eat is also covered by a nutritious diet." Liu Yaxiu nodded.

"However, it is very difficult to get people to change their inherent living habits, so our task is arduous and long."

She turned her head to look at Qiao Tan, and smiled helplessly, but without losing her determination.

"Vice President Liu!"

"Principal Baima!"

After arriving at the village-run primary school in the village, Principal Baima received Liu Yaxiu and Qiao Tan in person, took them to the classroom, pointed to the students who were eating breakfast, and said with a smile: "Vice President Liu, don't worry, early Three months ago, the nutritious breakfast subsidized by the government had been implemented in our school. In order to get rid of the students’ habit of having two meals a day, I specifically asked the parents to let the students come to school half an hour earlier, just to eat at school. "

Looking at the group of elementary school students who were eating with gusto, Liu Yaxiu smiled gratifiedly, "The day's plan is in the morning, and the human brain function largely depends on what we eat for breakfast. Especially the primary and middle school students who are in the growth and development period, even more so. Pay attention to the quality of breakfast, and the requirements are higher than adults."

"Vice President Liu is right. So, in addition to breakfast, the school also prepared simple lunches for the children at their own expense, just to make them grow stronger." Principal Baima nodded.

"This is the flower of the motherland."

Looking at the happy smiles on the faces of those children, Qiao Tan couldn't help but smile, and suddenly felt that the mountain flowers in front of him were so beautiful that it was too beautiful to behold.
"Chi Chi, the gangster, hugs Bu Maosi. The bandit comes to Maosi, and when he comes, I will seek it out"

Afterwards, Qiao Tan followed Liu Yaxiu to a local middle school for inspection. When passing by a classroom, bursts of reading aloud came from inside, resounding.

"Is there also a nutritious breakfast item here?" Qiao Tan asked Liu Yaxiu, digging out his ears.

"Not yet, I came here to see if the attendance rate here has improved." Liu Yaxiu explained.

"Attendance rate? Do middle school students here often skip classes?" Qiao Tan wondered.

Liu Yaxiu said: "Have you forgotten what your brother Mao said before? Before the country launched poverty alleviation, most children in Daliangshan chose to go out to work after graduating from primary school, while girls married early and had children. Even the government's tough projects Going deeper, but it didn't immediately change their contempt for education."

"For the poor, reading is an investment with a large investment but a slow return. Therefore, compared with reading, many parents prefer their children to herd sheep and farm at home. At the most severe time, there were more than 6 compulsory education students in Daliang Mountain. of students are not in school, and more than half of classrooms are vacant.”

Hearing this, Qiao Tan immediately turned his head to look at the classrooms full of students, and asked curiously, "When did this situation improve? I don't think there are many classrooms in this middle school, but the attendance rate is high."

"When the country regards 'controlling dropouts and guaranteeing education' as a hard bone in the local education system's fight against poverty." Liu Yaxiu said.

"This hard bone must be hard to chew, right?" Qiao Tan guessed.

"It's not just hard to chew, it's hard to bite."

Liu Yaxiu smiled, and continued: "But no matter how difficult it is to chew, we must eat it, because the education problem cannot be improved, and poverty alleviation will only have a short-term effect."

"See those two fences?"

Then, she pointed to the two iron fences standing sideways at the school gate, and said to Qiao Tan, "That's a roadblock."

"Roadblock? I thought it was the school gate fence." Qiao Tan was surprised.

"In order to allow children to return to class, every school season, with the assistance of the traffic control department, the school will set up checkpoints on traffic arteries to stop those elementary and middle school students who are trying to go out to work. In addition to setting up checkpoints, the local education bureau also They will send staff to other places to bring home junior high school students who have dropped out of school to work. They even use the method of 'officials and the people' to punish and warn parents who encourage or allow their children to drop out of school." Liu Yaxiu explained.

"It's really amazing to me!"

Qiao Tan was surprised again, and was suddenly at a loss for words when he heard these things.

"Although these methods are clumsy and even crude, they are very effective. According to the local education bureau, last year, 3.5 new students in the state's compulsory education stage were added, bringing a lot of nine leaked fish back to the classroom. And the more gratifying thing is Yes, with the start of the tough battle, many parents have changed their views one after another, thinking that reading is better than herding sheep, and they began to take the initiative to send their children to school and pay attention to their academic performance." Liu Yaxiu said with a smile.

"very nice!"

Qiao Tan sighed from the bottom of his heart, thousands of words finally merged into these two words.

"Director Liu, you are so kind."

She stretched out her arms to hold Liu Yaxiu, and leaned on her shoulder with her head tilted.

"I remember a volunteer once said, 'Small acts of kindness lead to great love'. I don't expect everyone to have great love. I just hope that our next generation will not go astray and walk on the right path." Liu Yaxiu said truthfully.

"Have a healthy body again." Qiao Tan added with a smile.

"That's right!"

Liu Yaxiu nodded with a smile, and continued to listen to the sound of books coming out of the classroom together with her.