After Tang Menglong returned to Lingao, he stayed at the second guest house of the Bopu Office - the Elders Quarantine Center as usual. [Read the latest chapter] It was Liu San who came to check their health.
"Welcome the heroes who came back from behind enemy lines." Liu San said with a smile and extended his hand.
"Nowhere, that damn place in the Jiazi Coal Mine is so boring." Tang Menglong said, "Besides the mountains, there is coal. The most you can see is the Nandu River."
Seeing the waiters carrying the luggage retreating, Tang Menglong whispered to Liu San: "Please help me take a look at Jiang Wenli, she seems to be..."
"I know." Liu San understood immediately, "I'll know in a minute."
"Did you bring the test strips?" Tang Menglong looked very nervous.
"I don't need these things." Liu San said, raising his hand, "Just check the pulse."
"It is indeed a happy pulse." Liu San withdrew his hand to press the pulse, "Congratulations."
Tang Menglong couldn't hold back the joy in his heart: "Really?"
"Is this a joke?" Liu San wiped his hands with alcohol cotton, "If you don't believe it, you can go to the general hospital and let her take a photo."
"This, this, what should I do?" Tang Menglong was at a loss. What should a woman do if she is pregnant? According to the general practice in the old time and space, of course the mother-in-law appeared to guide everything. The problem is that Tang Menglong has no mother-in-law to ask for advice.
Liu San was surprised: "What should I do?"
"Well, how should I arrange for her?" Tang Menglong murmured.
If the Organization Department did not agree to transfer him back to Lingao and wanted him to continue to stay in Jiazi Coal Mine, he could not take a pregnant woman to Jiazi Coal Mine, a place where birds do not lay eggs - there was not even a qualified doctor.
If he didn't take her back to Jiazi Coal Mine, Jiang Wenli would be a refugee bought from the mainland. Not to mention her parents, she wouldn't even have any relatives. Since she followed her, there was no place to stay in Lingao - Tang Menglong's dormitory was in Bairen City - she couldn't be allowed to go back to Fangcaodi to live in the student dormitory.
"Write a report to the General Office." Liu San said, "The next generation of the elders is the future of the regime, and the General Office will never neglect it."
"Yes, yes, and pregnant women should have better nutrition, right? I heard that pregnant women should eat more folic acid, vitamins, cod liver oil...but there is nothing."
Liu San said sternly: "Human beings have multiplied for millions of years in an era when there were no folic acid tablets, multivitamin pills and cod liver oil on earth and have evolved into this situation - you don't have to worry."
"Yes, yes, I understand this. What about diapers? And milk powder, we don't have it here..."
"Diapers and milk powder were only popularized in China in the 21st century, right?" Liu San couldn't laugh or cry, "The Chinese have been around for at least three to four thousand years."
Tang Menglong was already confused and at a loss. So even the matter of writing the petition was left to Liu San.
Of course, Xiao Zishan can only be responsible for approving supply issues, and specific medical issues must be resolved by the General Hospital. After Liu San asked the correspondent to submit the report, he immediately found Shi Niaoren and reported the situation.
Dr. Shi was currently in the newly completed No. 3 Medical Laboratory. He had probably just looked at the microscope and was rubbing the corners of his eyes.
When Shi Niaoren listened to Liu San's report, a smile appeared on his lips:
"Really? That's good. I thought the wormhole effect made us incapable of reproduction."
"Is this possible?" Liu San asked.
"Wormholes do have a certain impact on male reproductive skills." Shi Niaoren smiled. There were many labeled test tubes on the table behind him. Liu San was far away and couldn't see clearly what was written on the test tubes. , “I had some doubts about this at the beginning, so I did some research privately.”
"What did you find?"
"Well, the number is too low." Shi Niaoren said, "And it has a certain universality - although the samples I collected are not too many."
"You mean the numbers have recovered now?"
"Not now. It has been improving month by month since I started this research." Shi Niaoren said with a smile on his face, "It started slowly. But the recovery is faster than I thought. Even so Laotang is also outstanding. If nothing else happens, we will have our first baby boom next year."
Liu San shook his head and said: "It's really incredible."
"This is science: it is based on experiments. Of course, it is still unclear whether the cause is definitely the wormhole. The recovery mechanism is also unclear. It feels a bit mystical." Shi Niaoren stood up and walked to the sink. After washing his hands, he said, "No matter what, this is always a good thing: without future generations, there is no hope, and everyone has no motivation."
Liu... nodded: "I want Runshitang to manufacture more menstrual medicines to supply to the elders. The life secretaries will definitely need it."
"Haha, you have given them so much nourishing ointment. The land is very fertile now. It depends on whether the seeds are strong or not." Shi Niaoren joked, "Don't forget to prepare some medicine for the female senators."
"Okay. I'll look up the book when I get back and see what recipe is most suitable."
"Children are our future, the more the merrier," Shi Niaoren said, "I still have to talk to Director Ai."
Aibeibei has been appointed as the director of the newly established gynecology department - although her specialty is epidemiological research.
From the beginning of the year, she began training the first batch of indigenous gynecologists and midwives. The first batch of midwives had recently been assigned to serve the Aboriginals in outpatient clinics. The current service targets are mainly the indigenous people in the traverser system, and also serve the ordinary people in Lingao.
Ai Beibei promotes the concept of "hospital births" in Lingao. Of course, midwives can provide door-to-door services. However, the living environment and sanitary conditions of local indigenous people are mostly very poor, much worse than those of commune residents who undergo mandatory health inspections. In addition, both the local indigenous people and the immigrants transported from the mainland by the traveling group have poor reproductive habits, and there are many customs that can even be said to be harmful. After Abebe's first batch of midwives were trained, she spent a lot of time doing this.
Although there is no magic bullet, scientific midwifery and postpartum care can significantly reduce maternal and infant mortality. This is a very important livelihood project for the Chu government, which hopes to significantly increase its population.
I heard that a life secretary was pregnant, and she was very happy:
"We are going to have a baby soon. What a joy to congratulate." She thought for a moment, "This should be our first baby. Let her check her body first, and then I will make a meal plan based on her situation. It is recommended to ration her a special meal and increase the nutrition of pregnant women. Only in this way can a healthy baby be born."
Aibei thought for a while and said, "I have a plan, but I don't know if everyone is willing to do it."
"You tell me."
"In the future, there will be more and more cases of life secretaries giving birth, and some female senators are likely to give birth. I won't talk about female senators. Of course, they will be taken care of by their husbands, but life secretaries..." Ai Beibei did not continue, and said so. I understand very clearly that the life secretary is assigned to solve physical needs, and I can't talk about how much affection I have with the elders for a while. The elders eat in the canteen and sleep in the dormitories, and they also have to serve as secretaries. It may be difficult for them to take care of pregnant women.
"...The elders have a lot of work to do every day. People like Tang Menglong have to be stationed abroad, and pregnant women lack care." Ai Beibei said, "Of course, working women in this time and space endure hardships and stand hard work, and they can still go to the fields when they are about to give birth. It’s a common phenomenon.”
Ai Beibei's suggestion is to set up a special nursing home where pregnant women can be centralized and cared for.
"It feels like a reproductive factory..." Liu San said, "I don't like this feeling."
At this moment, he was thinking of Xuan Chun - although she was not pregnant, he couldn't imagine Xuan Chun waiting to give birth in such a place. Then he thought of Dark Cloud Flower again, and his whole body suddenly became silent like a deflated rubber ball.
"Isn't it?" Ai Beibei smiled lightly, "This can at least ensure the health of the mother and child." In her opinion, the older elders may still have some sympathy for women and are full of expectations for their children. Those young boys who have not graduated from college for a long time may not be so considerate. For them, having children is just a by-product of entertainment.
"In this case, the idea of unified raising of infants and unified education of children can be extended in the future. Children raised in this way may lack affection between their fathers." Shi Niaoren pondered for a moment, which seemed inappropriate. In addition, the life secretary is a member of the elder family after all, so it seems inappropriate to have a purely physiological need and need relationship without any emotion between them.
Such a society is too cold and rational. It's downright chilling.
"I think this is it. Pregnant women still live in their own homes, but they are registered and managed in a centralized manner, and food is specially provided." Ai Beibei thought for a while, "Carry out regular physical examinations."
Shi Niaoren agreed. After everyone discussed it, we decided to set up a "Mother and Child Center" within Bairen General Hospital - codenamed externally as the Third Outpatient Department of Bairen General Hospital. Bringing reproduction, childbirth and pediatrics all under one roof for unified management.
This is a reproductive and pediatric center dedicated to serving elders, and Ai Beibei is personally in charge of it. To this end, Bairen General Hospital is also preparing to carry out a special expansion project.
Liu San said: "I just have a worry: I don't know how the progress of our bioengineering is? If tetanus serum can be produced, the vaccine must be developed as soon as possible. Otherwise, the mortality rate of children will be very high. Smallpox is a very big disease. The problem is. If you can’t prescribe cowpox for a while, just use traditional variolation instead - it’s just a little bit more dangerous.”
"Last time I talked with people from the Biological Research Laboratory," Shi Yiaoren said, "They have already started working on some necessary vaccines. But I'm afraid it can't be done too fast. The cowpox problem is easier to solve, so let them solve it first. This is good." v! ~!
