World AIDS Day is coming soon on December 1st. Lao Wang, who has been serving AIDS patients, has been even busier these days. He just came back from Mudanjiang to care for AIDS patients and began to organize the Harbin AIDS Care Group. More than fifty members of the group had a meal together. "It is easy for more than 50 people to eat together, but it is difficult for more than 50 people with AIDS to eat together. We have to cook and eat by ourselves." Lao Wang said.

Lao Wang is also an AIDS patient. When he was diagnosed with the disease in 2006, he was already in the advanced stage of AIDS. After learning that he was suffering from AIDS, he was disheartened and at a loss. It was the care and encouragement of the society that gave him the confidence to fight the disease, making him the leader of the AIDS care team of the Red Cross Society of our province. Over the past three years, he has worked hard to gradually expand the care group that originally existed only in Harbin to the entire province, from one to six, allowing more AIDS patients to receive social care.

A word of encouragement cheered him up to fight the disease

On the morning of the 29th, when the reporter met Lao Wang in a house next to Wenming Street in Harbin, he was picking up an AIDS friend. consultation telephone number. While listening to the other person's story, he patiently persuaded the other person. After hanging up the phone, Lao Wang said to the reporter with some embarrassment: "I have kept you waiting for a long time. My office phone number is now a hotline. Almost all AIDS friends in the province have called me to talk to me. Therefore, I cannot be like other groups. Members move around like that and have to stay by the phone every day.”

Although he is only 44 years old, members of the AIDS care group still affectionately call him Lao Wang. Lao Wang said that before he was diagnosed with AIDS, he was a manager of a company. After learning about the illness, he submitted his resignation to the company. "In the autumn of 2006, I had a big lump on my neck. After a checkup, I found that I was in the late stage of AIDS." Lao Wang said that his first reaction at that time was that he was going to die. After being hospitalized, Zhu Xiaoping, the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Red Cross Society, visited him in the hospital many times and encouraged him to actively cooperate with the treatment. Because he is in the late stage of AIDS, Lao Wang's physical condition is very poor, and the doctor even said that he can only live for more than 20 days. After learning about Lao Wang's situation, Zhu Xiaoping encouraged him and said: "You have been a manager, can you cheer up and work for us?" After being encouraged many times, Lao Wang's thinking changed. He said to Zhu Xiaoping: "If I If you can get up, I will help you work."

Since then, Lao Wang has had the will to survive and the determination to fight against AIDS. Later, Lao Wang's condition miraculously improved, and in the spring of 2007, he was able to walk. At that time, the AIDS care group organized by the Provincial Red Cross Society had just been established for less than a year. Lao Wang, who had participated in the Red Cross volunteer training, joined the care group and became the team leader.

Persistence made him a "role model" for patients

When he first arrived at the care group, all measures were not in place, so Lao Wang started to formulate various systems and found AIDS Volunteers join the group. Soon, a care group headed by Lao Wang was formed. However, there were many difficulties when the work was first launched. Many AIDS patients were depressed and did not accept care and help from others. "Self-isolation" became a barrier to carrying out caring actions.

In order to get more AIDS patients to join the care group, Lao Wang visited the patients' homes again and again, and told them his own experience of being infected with AIDS and facing AIDS bravely, and encouraged the patients to face it as actively as he did. Life. "Through communicating with other patients, I found that it is easier for patients to communicate with each other. The most important thing is that it can stimulate the patients' will to survive and allow them to psychologically accept the existence of AIDS instead of fearing it." With the development of care work, Lao Wang has become a "role model" in the hearts of HIV/AIDS patients in Harbin. Anyone who has difficulties comes to him, and anyone who has psychological problems consults him. Delivering medicine to patients, helping patients solve their daily difficulties, and providing hospice care for patients... Lao Wang and five members shuttled between the homes of more than 50 patients in the care group and the hospital, doing their best to help them.

A belief has allowed the care group to grow to 6

The AIDS patients in Harbin have received care, but what about the patients in other places in the province? Thinking of this, Lao Wang contacted the Red Cross Societies of other prefectures and cities through the Provincial Red Cross Society. After learning that AIDS patients in various places only received drug treatment from the health department, Lao Wang made up his mind to expand the care group to Across the province, patients are allowed to form a group to communicate and encourage each other to fight AIDS together.

“There was an AIDS patient in Qiqihar who called me for help many times. Later, I went to Qiqihar to find him, stayed with him for 3 days, and talked to him for 3 days. I told him about my I was confused at first, but I told him how excited I was when my thoughts changed. Three days later, he finally got rid of the shadow of AIDS and established an AIDS care group with me in Qiqihar, where he is now the director. ”

Lao Wang’s persistence touched AIDS patients from all over the province. More than a dozen AIDS patients from Qiqihar, Jiamusi, Qitaihe, Shuangyashan and Mudanjiang successively came to Harbin AIDS Care Group for training, and with Lao Wang’s help Under the epidemic, a local AIDS care group was established to provide services to AIDS patients.

“I just came back from Mudanjiang a few days ago, where a care group has just been established. The next step is for us to get in touch with cities that have not established care groups to train AIDS patients there and let them become volunteers. And establish local care groups as soon as possible. In this way, AIDS patients across the province can find care organizations and support each other both in life and psychologically," Lao Wang said.