Chapter 346 Continuous stream

Chapter 346 Continuous stream

Chapter 346 Continuous stream
Inside the green balcony of Huang Haoren’s house.

Huang Jiale, who is over 50 years old, sat on a stone pier, while his elder brother Huang Jiahui was brewing tea on a round stone table.

He looked at his energetic elder brother, and couldn't help but take out a pack of cigarettes and handed one to him: "Brother, this time I come back, I may have to stay here for a month or two."

Huang Jiahui, who was scalding the teacup with hot water, shook his head and said, "I quit smoking. I went to the community hospital for a physical examination last year. The doctor said that I had some nodules in my lungs and asked me to try not to smoke."

Seeing that his elder brother didn't answer, Huang Jiale lit the cigarette himself: "Huh... Isn't it said that there are organ transplant surgeries now? There is Hailufeng Hospital in my hometown, so I don't have to worry about lung cancer or something like that, right?"

"I have inquired with my acquaintances in the community hospital. They say they can only do eye transplants now. Kidney transplants have recently entered the clinical trial stage. Other organs are not so fast. According to the information released by Hailufeng Hospital, the heart and lungs may be the last to be put on the list. They probably won't be officially used for five or six years."

"Is that so!" Huang Jiale frowned and looked at the cigarette in his hand, feeling a little bored for a moment.

After making the tea, Huang Jiahui poured a cup of Pu'er tea for his second brother: "That's why I just quit smoking recently. If my lungs have serious problems in the next few years, it would be really unlucky. I have only received the pension for less than half a year. I worked hard for most of my life. Now all kinds of benefits are good, but I died before I could enjoy them for a few years. That would be a big loss."

While speaking, he turned on the automatic ventilation system.

Immediately, the green balcony turned on the forced ventilation mode, flushing the secondhand smoke outside.

In fact, the green balcony of his house covers an area of ​​700 square meters. If you smoke one or two cigarettes in it, the smoke will quickly be absorbed by the indoor plants.

"Brother, with such a large area, the electricity consumption of these appliances must be quite a lot every month, right?"

"Not much. My family uses about 600 to 700 degrees of electricity a month. If it's summer, it's almost double that."

“How much does a kilowatt-hour of electricity cost in the mainland now?”

"For home use, it seems to be 37 cents per kilowatt."

"so cheap?"

"It's really cheap. In the past, the starting price was more than 60 cents, plus the tiered electricity prices, it was a pain to use. Now everyone is using it freely."

Huang Jiale put out his cigarette in the ashtray, picked up the teacup and blew away the hot air: "You make me want to go back to my hometown to retire."

"Then come back! You're living in a pigeon coop in Hong Kong, and you have to take care of Weiwei. It's not very convenient. You might as well settle down in the mainland."

After taking a sip of tea, Huang Jiale talked about his daughter: "Speaking of Weiwei, brother, do you have any acquaintances in Hailufeng Hospital? Can you arrange a good professor or something?"

"Don't think too much. Hailufeng Hospital is stricter than public hospitals. There is no need to waste money. After all, we are not relatives or friends of Academician Jiang. Hailufeng Hospital will not give us a back door."

"That's true..." Huang Jiale nodded helplessly.

"Just stay here with peace of mind. I've asked your sister-in-law to clean the room. Let Ren accompany you to the hospital tomorrow. He has already registered for you a few days ago."

Huang Jiale was a little nervous: "I hope everything goes well! As long as Weiwei's eyes can be cured, Meiqi and I will feel relieved."

"Don't worry too much. Medical technology is getting better and better. I asked the community hospital for you a few days ago. The eye transplant surgery at Hailufeng Hospital has only been officially used for less than two months. It is fully booked every day. More than 500 surgeries have been performed in two months, and not a single case has gone wrong."

"Of course I believe in the mainland's technology."

...

The next day, 2:30 p.m.

Huang Haoren, his cousin Huang Weiwei, and his second uncle and his wife drove to the Hailufeng General Hospital in Magong Town.

This hospital is right opposite the Hailufeng Group’s headquarters and employee residential area.

Looking at the crowds of people at the door.

Huang Jiale couldn't help but hold his daughter's arm to prevent her from being too far away from him.

Enter the lobby.

A nurse handed Huang Haoren a mobile phone: "This is a mobile phone exclusively for patients. Did you make an appointment in advance?"

"have…"

"Enter your medical card number."

After the patient enters the medical card number on his/her mobile phone as prompted, an instruction box will automatically pop up on the mobile page.

【Please select the service language type...】

【Simplified Chinese has been selected, please confirm...】

【Please select boot mode...】

[The simulated projection nursing mode has been selected...]

Ding! The projection light system was turned on on the top frame of the phone, and suddenly a cartoon image of a caregiver appeared in the air one meter away from the phone.

"Hello! Dear patient, your appointment is with Dr. Wei Haixin, the attending physician. His clinic is located in Room 5 of the Ophthalmology Department on the fourth floor. Please come this way..."

Following the direction of the cartoon nurse's finger, the few of them soon arrived at the attending physician's outpatient office.

Waited about half an hour.

The number-calling machine and the cartoon nurse reminded me almost simultaneously that it was time to see the doctor.

Enter the outpatient department.

Wei Haixin looked at the girl in sunglasses in front of him and immediately identified who the patient was. After carefully inquiring about her condition, he arranged for Huang Weiwei to be hospitalized and started queuing up to wait for a transplant.

The inpatient department of Hailufeng General Hospital is located on the hill behind the outpatient department building. It used to be a durian plantation and was later converted into an inpatient department.

Take the pedestrian bridge to the inpatient department.

Soon, under the guidance of the cartoon nurse, I was admitted to the ophthalmology inpatient building.

"Uncle, don't worry. The wards at Hailufeng Hospital are all single rooms, and there are also rooms for family members to accompany them."

Looking at the room in front of them, Huang Jiale and his wife nodded with satisfaction.

Maggie Q looked at the sheets and quilts that had just been unpacked, as well as the daily necessities brought by the resident nurse: "Although it cannot be reimbursed, the service is indeed good."

Huang Haoren smiled and said, "That's right, I make a living by serving you."

Hailufeng Hospital is a private hospital after all. In addition to featuring various new technologies, it relies on its reputation for service. In addition, its fees are not too high.

For example, the full set of medical services for replacing an eyeball, plus one month of hospitalization, would cost about 10 to 15 yuan.

But this only applies to domestic patients.

If you are a citizen of an Asian country, the fee will generally increase by about 15%.

If the patient is from other regions, the charging standard will be increased by 100%, which is 20 to 30 yuan.

This is also the domestic industry rule. Whether it is a public hospital or a private hospital, foreign-related medical services are charged high fees.

As for artificial eye transplant surgery, Hailufeng Hospital is the only one in the world that has the technology to perform it. Other domestic hospitals are still in the research and introduction stage, and it will only be promoted in other domestic hospitals in the next one or two years.

In fact, not many hospitals will introduce this technology.

It’s not that Hailufeng Hospital is deliberately holding back, but the patient population is limited. If all hospitals start eye transplant surgery programs, this program will soon run into operating difficulties due to insufficient patients.

Therefore, at this stage, only 30 hospitals in China have been approved to introduce this technology. And considering that this surgery requires hospitalization for more than a month, and the special circumstances of blind patients, they certainly cannot stay in a double room, and they also need the patient's family to accompany them around the clock, so hospitals in big cities are not qualified to obtain this technology.

To obtain the qualification to introduce eye transplant surgery projects, it is necessary to have sufficient inpatient facilities and nursing staff.

Hospitals in small and medium-sized cities can, on the contrary, provide sufficient inpatient facilities through rapid expansion.

In fact, this also reflects a new trend in domestic medical care.

That is to gradually transition from curing diseases and saving lives to curing diseases and saving lives while ensuring patients' comfort.

In the past, most hospitals had several patients in one ward. This situation will become less and less common in the future, and private wards will become the trend.

After all, it is really inconvenient for several patients to squeeze into one ward, especially for some special patients who will constantly make noises at night, and other patients in the same ward may not be able to rest because of the noise.

At the same time, there are also problems such as cross infection and privacy.

Now that conditions in all aspects have improved, it is natural to gradually promote private wards to provide better medical services to patients.

For example, blind patients like Huang Weiwei definitely need round-the-clock care from their family members. If they are kept in a multi-person ward, it would be very inconvenient.

Huang Haoren taught his second uncle how to use the patient’s mobile phone, then said goodbye and went home.

In fact, patient mobile phones are very easy to use. The phone’s built-in voice recognition AI system allows patients or family members to give commands through voice. The phone’s intelligent AI can also conduct various interactive communications with patients and family members.

The family tidied up the sheets and bedding in the ward.

The nurse knocked on the door.

"Huang Weiwei's family?"

"I'm her dad."

"This is the physical examination item. Please take a look. Let the robot on your phone set a timer for you. It will remind you when the time comes."

"Nurse, how do I do this?"

"It's very simple. Just talk to it. Our backend has automatically synchronized the information. You will have all kinds of information on that phone."

"Okay, thank you, nurse."

"You are welcome."

Huang Jiale interacted with the mobile phone AI for a while and arranged the automatic reminder function for each physical examination item. When the time comes, the mobile phone AI will automatically remind them and guide them to the designated department for examination.

Before I knew it, the durian plantation outside the window was shrouded in the afterglow of the sunset.

Gulu gulu…

Maggie Q was chatting with her daughter when she heard her daughter's stomach growling. She immediately woke up her husband who was resting in the family room next door: "Old man? Weiwei is hungry!"

"Uh..." Huang Jiale, who was half asleep, jumped up from the bed as if he was pricked by a needle. "What's the matter?"

"Weiwei is hungry!"

Huang Jiale put on his coat and asked, "I'll go buy... Weiwei, what do you want to eat?"

At this moment, the voice recognition system of the patient's mobile phone had heard the conversation just now and automatically turned on the service mode.

"Hello, patient, you can order meals through this system. Here is the menu of the cafeteria at Hailufeng Hospital..."

"It's really convenient." Huang Jiale came and sat down next to his daughter's bed. At this time, the mobile phone had automatically projected the menus of the three restaurants in the hospital cafeteria. At the same time, it also provided some more suitable recommended dishes based on the feedback data from the nano vital sign monitor implanted in the patient.

"Dad, I want to eat barbecued pork rice. Do you have barbecued pork rice?"

The patient's phone responded faster and gave the required information directly: "Yes, dear patient friends, the Lingnan Restaurant in the hospital has barbecued pork rice. Here are the details, please browse..."

"Well, old man, can I have a barbecued pork rice?"

"Two barbecued pork rice, one boneless white-cut chicken rice, one bowl of bitter melon and pork ribs soup per person, and finally a freshly cut fruit platter, that's it."

“…Please confirm.”

"Confirmed. Your order is expected to arrive at the ward in 45 minutes. Please pay attention to the background reminder information..."

Maggie Q, who was pouring water for her daughter, asked, "How much does it cost to order a meal in the hospital?"

"Our meal costs 46 yuan."

"So cheap? If it were in Hong Kong, an ordinary lunch box would cost thirty or forty dollars."

Huang Jiale, who was chewing gum, suddenly asked, "Yesterday my eldest brother told me to consider returning to the mainland to retire. What do you think, old lady?"

"What do you think? I have no objection, but I don't know if the pension in Hong Kong will be cut off?" Maggie Q said worriedly.

"I can't say for sure about this." Huang Jiale was also a little confused. Hong Kong's fiscal revenue has dropped sharply in recent years, and now it is almost unable to make ends meet.

It seems that the economy of the entire Asian Union is booming, but the economy of Hong Kong is failing? Isn't this a bit counterintuitive?
In fact, the reason behind this matter is very simple.

Hong Kong's economy comes from four core pillar industries: real estate, financial investment, re-export trade, and tourism services.

After entering the era of Asian Union, these four pillar industries have all suffered severe damage.

After all, this is the era of the Asian Union, where there are no tariffs between regions within the union, while other parts of the world are gradually increasing trade barriers.

This resulted in Hong Kong's share of re-export trade being almost completely lost.

In terms of financial investment, Hong Kong is not as bold as Sing Tao, and it has also lost a large part of its funds in investments in Europe and the United States, which has also seriously damaged its vitality.

As for tourism services, this industry has been in trouble for a long time, and it has become even worse since entering the era of the Asian Union.

After all, Hong Kong has too few tourism advantages. Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian tourists are not fools. If they don't go to the mainland, won't they feel uncomfortable in Hong Kong?

Currently, there is no limit on the amount of materials brought into the Asian Union. As long as you can afford the air freight, even if you purchase a few tons of rice from Seris and bring it back to Japan, the Japanese customs will not stop you or collect taxes.

In this way, Hong Kong’s tax advantage is directly offset.

The mainland also has medical care, natural scenery, science and technology cities, ancient relics, food, drink and entertainment projects that can attract tourists from all over the world.

In terms of tourism resources, Hong Kong is not even as good as its neighboring Macau. After all, its pillar industry is gambling, which has not declined in recent years. On the contrary, it has maintained considerable growth because of its backing of the huge mainland market.

Finally, there is real estate, an industry that has also long been on the decline.

As other industries in Hong Kong declined, real estate naturally lost its internal driving force. Now even if the locals want to sell land cheaply, they don’t earn much income.

Faced with such difficulties, it is no wonder that Huang Jiale feels uncertain about whether Hong Kong can maintain its current pension payments in the future.

Many Hong Kong people whose relatives and friends are still in the mainland are already trying to find ways to immigrate back to the mainland, or to have the young people in their family return to the mainland, or to go to Southeast Asia to work.

Obviously, everyone with a discerning eye knows that Hong Kong’s future is bleak.

In fact, from the perspective of current conditions, the decline of Hong Kong is just a return to its original position. The development of this city mainly relied on its window to the outside world. When Serbia was fully open, the decline of Hong Kong was almost an inevitable outcome.

(End of this chapter)