Chapter 249 - Special department (1/2)

Love.

For normal people, as time passed, love would slowly become an intimate affection. Perhaps one’s lover would be an intimate person who was closer to you than your own siblings. Perhaps it would be the familiarity between the left hand and the right hand. But once irregular factors became involved in love, then things would become truly complex. Irregular factors would be power, money, and so on.

President Li’s way of thinking was unknown. Maybe she was venting her frustrations on Superintendent Ouyang, or maybe she had some other objective in mind. Ordinary people wouldn’t be privy to her thoughts.

Wang Congzhong was quite lucky. His life was saved. Immediately after waking up, his first words were “Can I still have sex?”.

Ridiculous. This whole thing was just so ridiculous. There was no way to really say who was in the right or wrong. The government could only hand out fines to deal with this incident. Since Wang Congzhong was still alive, the banks’ higher-ups now felt reassured. The government officials also felt reassured. Everyone acted as if the fight at the hospital hadn’t happened at all. It was quietly forgotten. The government had originally prepared some bonus money for the hospital as a reward, but that money was retracted!

Since it was around New Year’s, most businesses gave vacation time to their employees. However, the hospital could only let the doctors and nurses take vacations in shifts. Not only that, they still might be called back in at any moment. Still, the hospital no longer scheduled any elective surgeries during this time.

Yet, there wouldn’t be any fewer emergency surgeries during this time. New Year’s was a common time for numerous stomach problems to explosively appear.

Zhang Fan was only able to rest for a few days before his vacation was interrupted by Chasu City Hospital. This was because a female doctor in the infectious diseases department had gotten pregnant. She was crying and making a ruckus while demanding to be transferred to a different department.

The scene was rather tragic. The female doctor held her belly which wasn’t showing yet while crying endless tears at the hospital administration department. “When I joined the hospital, my leader promised me that I would only have to stay for half a year, saying something like the infectious diseases department really lacked personnel. I also understand that the leaders have hardships of their own, so I went to the infectious diseases department without saying anything. But, I’ve now stayed for six years here. Can the hospital please understand my hardships now?”

She was truly heartbroken. She kept stuttering because of all her crying. “Over the past six years, because I’m in the infectious diseases department, every single boyfriend that I’ve ever had has broken up with me or won’t even give me a chance. They didn’t even want to kiss me, because I’m an infectious diseases doctor!” Judging by her expression, it was obvious that all of this had truly hurt her heart.

“I finally managed to get one man to stay. Now that I’m pregnant, my husband is telling me to either change hospital departments or to resign. It’s not easy for me! Waah! Waah! Waah!”

The hospital administration director couldn’t do anything about this. He was unable to say anything that could convince the pregnant female doctor otherwise, as she kept crying and panting for breath. “How about you take some time off for now? You’re now a pillar of your department. The department can’t do without you!” the hospital administration director spoke in a soft tone. At this time, he could only try and console her and let her vent her anger that had piled up over the years.

“Director, please spare me from the infectious diseases department! Do you really want me and my husband to get divorced!?” Since she was saying things to such an extent, the hospital administration director really couldn’t say much else.

“Please, stop crying for now and wipe your tears. You have an unborn child, so you must calm down and not be too excited. Let’s do this. Have some rest for now as I report this matter to the higher-ups. Rest assured, I’ll definitely give you a satisfactory response.”

The hospital administration director finally convinced the female doctor to leave the hospital administration department. However, this left the infectious diseases department with insufficient personnel. The hospital administration director considered all his options, but felt rather helpless. The medical license exam results had only come out recently, so the rotation doctors for this year had yet to receive their medical licenses. This meant that most of the rotation doctors were unable to independently take shifts on their own. However, the hospital administration director suddenly recalled that Zhang Fan was free with nothing to do at the hospital.

“Zhang Fan, what are you up to?” The hospital administration director phoned Zhang Fan. What else would Zhang Fan be doing? He was incredibly busy with running his new hospital. Previously, it had seemed so easy to him when Ma Wentao was running the hospital, but there was nothing but trouble ever since Zhang Fan purchased the hospital. One day, this government bureau would come for an inspection. Another day, some other government bureau would come for some type of examination. On yet another day, the Health Insurance Bureau suddenly rescinded approval of medical insurance to be used at Zhang Fan’s hospital. At any rate, there were all sorts of troublesome issues with the government every day.

“Oh, Director, I’m busy with personal matters.” Zhang Fan was trying to say that he was too busy to come!

“Oh, I see. Alright then, set your personal matters aside for the time being. Our hospital’s infectious diseases department doesn’t have enough staff to open for the time being. Hurry and start a rotation in the infectious diseases department so that they can remain open!” The hospital administration director didn’t care one bit about Zhang Fan’s personal matters. He felt that someone as young as Zhang Fan wouldn’t have any important personal matters to begin with!

“Eh! Director, I really do have my own affairs. I’m still on vacation—”

Zhang Fan didn’t even get a chance to finish as the hospital administration director immediately interrupted him. “Are you working at hospitals again? You little brat, let me tell you, enough is enough. I won’t accept any discussion on this topic. Immediately come back to the hospital! After this busy period is over, I’ll give you the rest of your vacation days!”

Sigh! Zhang Fan really couldn’t do anything about this. Would he really receive the rest of his vacation days? That was nothing more than a lie. The hospital administration director was using the issue of Zhang Fan working at other hospitals to pressure him! Since Zhang Fan didn’t have any choice but to go, he left his hospital’s management to Chen Qifa for the time being as he returned to working at Chasu City Hospital.

The infectious diseases department was truly the most unpopular department at any hospital. Nobody was willing to work here. The Chinese government had truly spent a great deal of effort on controlling infectious diseases. The national motto was that prevention was stronger than treatment. Older Chinese folk all knew about Chinese epidemic prevention stations. Younger Chinese people all knew about the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Establishing these places would cost just as much money as establishing a hospital.

Although there were epidemic prevention stations, hospitals still had to establish their own infectious diseases departments. China classified infectious diseases into three different classes: A, B, and C. Normally, when a person became sick, their first reaction would be to go to the hospital rather than an epidemic prevention station. The main job of epidemic prevention stations was to support hospitals in management and treatment. If there was a major infectious disease going around, the epidemic prevention stations would start to take the leading role as hospitals took the support role.

Why was it that no doctors were willing to work in this department? It was quite simple. Infectious diseases were far too vicious. The main trait of infectious diseases was obvious because of the name. Infectious diseases would infect others quite easily. That wasn’t all. Even worse was that many infectious diseases would have incubation periods. Basically, there were those who were carrying an infectious disease without realizing it due to having no symptoms yet. Such people could still infect you, and it would be impossible to tell from physical appearance alone whether a person carried an infectious disease or not.