Chapter 878: Infection [878] Chapter 878: Infection [878] “How do we get to the Capital?” Lulu’s Mom panicked even more, having not anticipated her daughter’s condition to be so severe.

“Don’t worry just yet, call your husband over,” Village Chief Li reassured her as he held her hand. “Get a car to take you to the county hospital first. Follow the doctor’s instructions to get an x-ray, then let the ambulance from the county hospital take your daughter to Capital Hospital.” After speaking, knowing her family’s difficulty with transportation, Village Chief Li helped her find a car.

Villagers are simple and kind-hearted; in their village with good village customs, every household is like one big family.

Once Village Chief Li called out, Third Zhang drove over in a small van. Lulu’s father, having received the notice, hurried over along with the grandparents, the whole family rushing to the hospital together with the medical records Doctor Kim had written for the child.

Seeing that the pediatric surgery leader had identified a major problem with a patient, the other volunteer doctors became more vigilant, making sure not to miss any serious illnesses among the villagers.

While checking a male patient’s blood pressure, Dai Nanhui suddenly stared at the man’s neck and said to He Guangyou next to him, “Teacher, his cervical lymph nodes are swollen.”

What? Swollen cervical lymph nodes could mean a serious issue. He Guangyou quickly turned to examine the patient, reaching out to palpate the patient’s neck, and asked the patient, “Do you have a goiter?”

“Yes. The doctor said I have an iodine deficiency.”

Dai Nanhui turned away his face, feeling a bit embarrassed.

He Guangyou did not criticize him, knowing he was a novice, and that mistaking thyroid enlargement for lymph node swelling was a reasonable mistake. An abnormal novice might be Xie Wanying, who seemed to understand everything when it came to clinical matters.

The pediatric department welcomed another special patient.

A ten-year-old boy was brought in by his grandfather to see the doctor.

It turned out the boy, being playful, had fallen while running with his friends two days earlier, injuring his left leg. His family had not thought to take him to the clinic, thinking it was not serious, and had applied some injury oil at home on his wound.

Only one day later, the boy’s leg had swollen up like an elephant’s leg, finally making the grandparents, who were looking after the child, anxious enough to remember to take him to the doctor.

“Put him on this bed.” Village Chief Li patted the makeshift wooden bed erected at the back of the tent, asking two relatively younger village officials to help the elderly carry the boy and place him on the bed for the doctor’s examination.

Xie Wanying and Nie Jiamin put on gloves and approached the boy.

“Does this patient count as part of your orthopedics? Do you want to come along to check?” Doctor Kim reminded Chang Jiawei.

Chang Jiawei stood up, driven more by a curiosity to see what was happening, and walked over to look.

The ten-year-old boy showed signs of fever, his face flush.

Xie Wanying took a thermometer and tucked it under the boy’s armpit to take his temperature, and then felt the boy’s forehead, before turning back to consult her teacher, “Should we start by administering fluids?”

“No,” Nie Jiamin shook his head, clearly not in a hurry, quite composed.

Teacher Nie, visiting from overseas, seemed even less flustered than the domestic teachers.

Chang Jiawei stood by with both hands in the pockets of his white coat, quietly waiting to see how the foreign expert would handle the situation.

Actually, the child’s condition was not difficult to diagnose. Any doctor could discern at a glance that the boy’s wound was infected.

His left lower leg showed diffuse red swelling with unclear boundaries and an obvious central depression suggesting edema, likely forming an ulcer.