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Doctor Han Yaling, a delegate of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is deputy director of the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region and head of the Department of Internal Medicine / Cardiovascular Diseases. She has kept her promise to devote herself to the communist cause and serve the majority of the people since the day she joined the Communist Party. Han has won more then 10 prizes of advancement rewarded by the military or provincial authorities during the past 20 years. She has led her department to successfully carry out 6,000 selective coronary angiographies and 2,500 percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). The department under her leadership leads all the military hospitals in northeastern China in applying advanced technology, and is one of the best in China. Dr. Han was awarded the title of National Star of Youths in Medicine by the Ministry of Public Health and was selected into the first National Millions-of-talents Project. She was awarded first-class merit by the Central Military Commission in 2000 and was honored as a "National Woman Pace-setter" in 2002.
Coronary heart disease is the number one killer of human. The conventional medicines of blood vessel dilatation have been used to treat patients for many years. In order to search for new therapy and new techniques, Dr. Han visited all major hospitals in Beijing, Xi'an and Guangzhou. Whenever she got a chance to visit a foreign country, she always consulted overseas experts she encountered. She was determined to learn the most advanced know-how and update the treatment of her department. Finally, the doctors led by her could use PTCA -- the world- acknowledged advanced method to treat coronary heart disease in their hospital.
After applying PTCA in clinical practice, she started to work on more advanced and difficult PCI techniques. She took a bold measure in using coronary artery support techniques in treating not only regular patients but also those suffering emergency heart attacks. Thanks to the hard work of Dr. Han and her colleagues, the death rate among heart attack patients in the hospital has reduced by 47 percent. Coronary heart disease frequently occurs among the elderly, but to operate on an elderly patient is difficult and risky. However, Dr. Han and her team have successively conducted emergency PTCA operation for more than 200 senior patients, including 180 who are over 70 years old and 25 of over 80 years old. The oldest patient who received emergency PTCA treatment while suffering a heart attack was at the age of 86, a record age for such patients in China. Since 2000, the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region has been ranking the third in the country in terms of its PTCA operation number, successful rate and difficult cases.
(China.org.cn November 10, 2002)
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