01The forgotten “whistle blower”
On September 21, 2019, a 59-year-old Chinese woman died silently of a heart attack in an ordinary hospital in Utah, USA.
Her death did not set off a single ripple in the world, as if she had never come into the world.
Her name was Wang Shuping, and like Li Wenliang, she was a doctor and the “whistle blower” of the “Henan AIDS blood scourge” more than 20 years ago.
Unlike Li Wenliang’s death, which triggered the grief of the people and the official tribute, no one paid tribute to Dr. Wang Shuping after her death, no one except her Family and friends grieved for her, and the domestic media did not report a single word, not even for her “name”.
Because she dared to speak the truth, she was brave enough to expose a terrible security loophole in Henan’s heyday of “blood selling economy” – blood selling by HIV and hepatitis virus carriers. Wang Shuping lost her job, her Marriage broke up, her happiness disappeared, and she was even forced to live overseas, but in return, thousands of lives were lost.
A month before her death, Wang Shuping confessed to her family and friends: I did not consider my personal fate back then.
02 “blow the whistle” consequences, very serious
In 1991, Wang Shuping was 31 years old, living a quiet Life and a happy family. For a woman, perhaps it is exactly what she needs to live.
But one thing happened that completely changed her life, and thus she began a disasterous fate.
At that Time, Wang Shuping was working in a blood station under the Zhoukou District health Bureau in Henan Province. Soon after, she discovered that there was a terrible safety loophole in the “blood selling economy” that was flourishing in Henan at that time – blood was sold by HIV and hepatitis virus carriers, and because there were no measures to prevent contamination and cross-infection, the blood products at the blood station were As a result, blood products from blood stations are contaminated and then passed on to healthy donors and more innocent and healthy people through different channels.
What is even more frightening is that there are also many private blood stations without any health qualifications, where an accountant, two nurses, a few syringes and a few bottles of alcohol are used to transform a cowshed into a “blood collection point” that people are eager to visit.
Out of the high profit relationship, such “black blood stations” also sprouted more and more in various places like the rain. Some people have counted, in 1993, only Zhumadian area has 33.
In 1991, in the Zhoukou area of Henan Province, the economy was not yet developed, and many villagers in urgent need of money, through the sale of blood this way to complete the demand for money, this phenomenon is more common in the local.
Many people sold blood to survive without the slightest notion of the dangers of viral infection in the process. There is no mechanism for hepatitis and HIV screening in either government or private blood banks.
This 29-year-old man contracted HIV from selling blood. He started selling blood at the age of 16 to save money to build a house for his family]
This is a huge loophole that must be closed, otherwise thousands of people will be unknowingly infected with HIV and hepatitis virus, which will kill many people. Wang Shuping thought so.
Subsequently, Wang Shuping set up a clinical testing center, attached to the Health Bureau, financial self-management, the main work is to screen blood samples. Soon, she found an even more horrifying loophole: an HIV-positive person had sold blood at four blood stations.
This discovery was so shocking that out of a sense of professional ethics and conscience, Wang Shuping wrote a detailed report of this finding and requested that the blood stations line up HIV carriers.
Some people reminded Wang Shuping, this is not afraid to get yourself into trouble?
But Wang Shuping could not care less. As a doctor, she felt that the first consideration should be the interests of patients and the public, so she decided to stand up for the innocent people infected with hepatitis C virus and HIV.
But the result was to be told by the parties concerned: too costly.
The matter was left unresolved.
Later, Wang Shuping found that more than 10% of the more than 400 blood samples collected had HIV.
The longer the work, the more tormented the conscience. But Wang Shuping is just a “little person”, she is powerless to change this heartbreaking fact. Moreover, she understood that her actions also involved a conflict between those with power and money and those without.
In December 1995, Wang Shuping finally did something that many people thought was “treacherous”: she wrote a detailed investigation report on the various safety hazards and blood loopholes in the blood station and submitted it to the Zhoukou Regional Health Bureau.
[In December 1995, Wang Shuping submitted a report to the Zhoukou Regional Health Bureau].
The result, very disappointing.
Wang Shuping expected the relevant departments to quickly take thunder and did not come as expected. At this moment, she realized that some people are obviously still alive, but their conscience has long turned black.
Wang Shuping was not willing and could not bear to see more and more innocent people continue to suffer from the “blood scourge” of poison. The following year, she submitted the investigation report and test data to the Ministry of Health.
Wang Shuping’s “whistle blowing” had serious consequences.
She was eventually dismissed from her job. Her husband, who was working in the health department at the time, was also ostracized by the authorities because of his wife’s “whistle blowing” to expose the “blood scourge”, and they eventually divorced.
03 She blew the whistle for the people
In 1996, Wang Shuping’s “whistle blowing” finally saw results, in the attention of the higher authorities, all the blood stations around the country were closed for renovation.
When the blood stations resumed work, HIV testing was added as a requirement before blood could be drawn. How many people will be saved from innocent HIV infection as a result? The number is incalculable.
But this is no longer relevant to Wang Shuping.
There are no flowers, no applause, no honors. There is the desolate loneliness of being alone in the jungle.
At that time, the network in mainland China has just started, so no one knows, in the blood station was rectified to increase the testing of HIV (HIV) behind this matter, there is such a dismissed from work, divorced, was in exile “whistle blower”.
This place does not stay sister, own stay sister.
In 2001, Wang Shuping moved to the United States alone, English name Sunshine, meaning sunshine.
In that year, the AIDS crisis in central China was recognized, with at least XX million people infected with HIV after selling blood at blood stations, with Henan being one of the provinces with the worst HIV Epidemic. The government later opened a special hospital for this purpose to treat AIDS-related patients.
Years later, Wang Shuping married Gary Christensen, an American, and settled in Salt Lake City. She worked as a researcher at the University of Utah.
Before her death, she was a researcher at the University of Utah.
One day shortly before her death, in an interview on Woman’s Hour, she recalled an incident in which a local health official publicly complained at a public health work session about which guy was so bold as to report this to the central government. I stood up and said, “I wrote the report, I am a woman.
The lonely long I Shu wide sleeve, ten thousand miles long sky and for the loyal soul dance.
This classic line from Chairman Mao’s “Butterfly Lovers – A Reply to Li Shuyi” is the first tribute I wrote in my heart for Wang Shuping after hearing the news of her death and learning about her deeds.
Yesterday, among all the tributes to Li Wenliang, one line was frequently mentioned: Those who hold the salary for the people must not be made to freeze to death in the wind and snow. For Wang Shuping, it is no different.
She blew the whistle of “blood disaster” alone when everyone was sound asleep or pretending to be asleep, and then bore the consequences that she should not have borne.
The sadness of Wang Shuping is not the sadness of the times.
Previously, we have been calling for the interests of the people is the starting point for the work of the government, some officials really need to change their way of thinking! We must acknowledge the facts, tell the truth, follow the science and respect the profession. What’s more, we must reintroduce truthfulness and encourage the whole society to speak the truth together and protect the truth-tellers together, which is the basic premise for the country to move towards modern governance.
I hope that from today onwards, every Chinese should remember the name Wang Shuping in our hearts, and she should be recorded in history even more.
The epitaph on Wang Shuping’s tombstone should be added: “She blew the whistle for the people.
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