Returnee brothers build a public welfare ＂city of light＂
Twenty years ago, two brothers, He Wei and He Xiangdong, successively obtained their doctorates from Kyushu University. They vowed to "solve the problem of eye care for poor patients in China" and returned to China to establish the Ho Eye Hospital Group. The development of Ho Eye Hospital Group started from scratch. Up to now, it has 8 eye hospitals, 60 optometry stores, 1 medical college, 1 eye industry research base, and more than 1,600 medical and teaching staff, which has sent light to nearly 80% of eye patients in Liaoning.
Dream, starting from a free clinic
After graduating from China Medical University in 1984, He Wei, who came from a medical family, was sent by the Ministry of Education to go to Japan for further study as the first international student studying for a doctorate in ophthalmology. After studying abroad for 8 years, he obtained a doctor’s degree and a Japanese medical license.
"My dream began with a free clinic." In 1992, He Wei returned to the motherland with the Japanese medical aid group to attend a free clinic for cataract surgery for the old people in Northeast China in Fushun. He took the initiative to sign up for all the free clinics, 18 times for 10 days at a time. He Wei’s heart can no longer be calm when he sees the long queues of villagers waiting for medical treatment and hears the longing and gratitude of the heart. One can be cured, but even if the operation doesn’t stop breathing, it can’t be done-there are too many patients! Everyone has to make one eye first, and the other one will be about next year. Every time I leave, I don’t give up. A pair of hands hold together and refuse to let go: "Doctor, will you come again next year?" I have another eye waiting for you! " "At the end of the free clinic, an old man told me that he didn’t want to live because he couldn’t see." He Wei said, "This made me make up my mind to go back to China and build an eye hospital."
My younger brother He Xiangdong is three years younger than He Wei. Although his brothers and sisters have different personalities, they have the same aspirations. In 1995, they left Japan where they had lived for eight years and returned to the motherland.
Today’s Ho Eye Hospital has the same medical equipment and inspection equipment as the first-class hospitals in China. Behind the Ho Hospital building, there is a small building with no sign-Ho Civilian Eye Hospital. The patients who come here for medical treatment are all poor people selected and introduced by grass-roots government organizations such as streets, and Ho gives them free treatment.
In the past 20 years, Ho Eye Hospital has served 8.8 million person-times, reduced or exempted 197 million yuan for poor patients, and the amount of public welfare free surgery accounted for 48.9% of the total amount of surgery, and performed cataract surgery for 79,800 poor patients.
Running a school and building an ideal "bright city"
In the depths of the scenic Qipanshan Mountain in Shenyang, there is a university without walls-Ho Medical College: more than a dozen red tiled buildings, beige castle teaching buildings, laboratories and libraries are arranged in turn. In front of the stepped open-air assembly square, there is a pool of winding water "Boya Lake", and behind it is the hall-style art college building supported by tall pillars.
He Xiangdong has an unforgettable memory that when Ho lived in a small house of 125 square meters, He Wei asked him to use that 286 computer to draw a brilliant "bright city" picture. The reason why they insisted on building a university is because the two brothers realized that only by training more doctors and reserve forces can a "bright city" be established.
He Wei said, "In addition to training a large number of undergraduates and junior college students, we have been insisting on training rural doctors and village doctors for grassroots for free for 20 years, training ophthalmologists for backward areas in western China such as Tibet for free, and training 32,000 grassroots doctors for free for 20 years."
Scientific research, gathering professional strength
For the future, the two brothers are ambitious: to realize the industrial chain of medicine, teaching, production, learning and research. He Wei said that education should become the "engine" of medical care and provide practical talents suitable for future development; Let scientific research become the "storage battery" of medical treatment, and let China’s medical technology change from imported to "made by China".
Planning the eye industry base, engaging in scientific research and industrial transformation, the Group currently has 28 patented technologies, among which intraocular lens has been certified by the European Union, and the price can be reduced to 1/3 compared with similar imported crystals.
In 2006, Liaoning love light Blind Prevention Foundation was established in Ho Eye Hospital Group. He Wei said: "Integrating resources together to make a bright cause bigger is not only to prevent and treat blindness, but also a spiritual pursuit." He Wei and He Xiangdong hope to arouse the public’s responsibility and gather more social forces through the foundation.