Since the beginning of March, the street where Lu Jingwen, a Public Administration graduate of 2021, is working with, has entered the epidemic control period. She stood by 24 hours a day after receiving the emergent call from her unit. At 2 a.m., she dragged her suitcase and a quilt back to her office, slept on the floor and worked for nearly two months.
At first, she was appointed as the onsite leader of the locked community. The daily work included: ensuring that express delivery, takeout and all kinds of living goods enter the community without contact after disinfection, sterilization and classification; strictly control the entry, exit and register of personnel according to the requirements of epidemic prevention; ensure that the epidemic prevention materials and living materials of the community resident committee and volunteers are in place in time. Although her work is complicated, she is well aware of the great responsibility. Only when the outfield orderly and timely provides logistics support for the infield of the locked community, can the neighborhood committee and volunteers devote themselves to the epidemic fighting.
With the outbreak of the epidemic, the nucleic acid test in each community is arduous and in urgent need of manpower. She often starts to help the resident committee prepare for nucleic acid test in the early morning after receiving the task, so as to ensure that nucleic acid test can be carried out orderly and efficiently. She sometimes dressed in white uniform without eating or drinking until the afternoon. She was dazed several times, but she always thought that what she did was nothing but her responsibility. She said: in fact, I can't call myself a volunteer. This is my work and my responsibility and obligation as a grass-roots staff.
Help residents purchase medicine, enter the locked community and ask residents to stay home. In the case of different tasks every day, she was unfortunately caught by COVID-19 virus. After two bars appearing on the test strip on March 31, although a little scared, I could accept it calmly. Thinking in another way, I have been working for nearly a month and is unable to carry on. Now I can take a break to rejuvenate However, when she was transferred to the National Convention and Exhibition Center (makeshift hospital), she didn't rest and volunteered to work.
Everyone in the makeshift hospital is actually a patient. In the area around my bed, the elderlies account for the majority. Many elderly people come alone and don't even have mobile phones. Therefore, at the moment of recruiting volunteers, I feel that as a young person, I need to take responsibility.
She helped others to complete daily medical checkup, assisted doctors to collect nucleic acid, distributed three meals, applied for materials etc. After becoming a volunteer, her life in the makeshift hospital became busy and full. The doctors and nurses who came to the hospital for support also patiently adopted the suggestions put forward by the volunteers. All of them worked together to help make the makeshift hospital orderly. Seeing the environment improve day by day, she felt a sense of satisfaction and achievement.
As of today, her COVID-19 test became negative and she left the makeshift hospital. After seven days of quarantine at home, she returned to her post and continued to fight the epidemic. The long march through generations. Since the beginning of the epidemic, Lu Jingwen has always been fighting at the forefront, gritting her teeth to overcome various difficulties, and always thinking of doing her best to contribute to the epidemic control. She firmly believes that despite her contribution could be limited, the strength gathered by tens of millions of people will overcome the epidemic, and Shanghai will usher in a promising tomorrow.
Fight the epidemic with one heart and wait for the spring sunshine!
Translator: XIAO Yuewen
Reviewer: ZHOU Huijun
