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Wuhan man is hospital's bridge to the hearing impaired

By Zhou Lihua in Wuhan | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-03-06 17:08
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Zhang Qin, first right, talks with a hearing impaired patient at Wuhan First Hospital in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province. [Photo by Hu Dongdong for chinadaily.com.cn]

Zhang Qin, a medical radiation technologist at Wuhan First Hospital known for helping hearing impaired patients to communicate with doctors, was recently named "Most Beautiful Volunteer" in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, Changjiang Daily reported.

When Zhang first started working in the radiology department, he came across a hearing impaired patient who had trouble understanding the attending doctor accurately. After communicating with the patient using sign language, Zhang helped the doctor diagnose a kidney stone and provided timely treatment for the patient.

Such incidents promoted Zhang's good reputation in the local hearing impaired community.

Xu Jianrong, who is hearing impaired and a regular patient at the hospital, said she used to struggle when seeing doctors. She said the doctors couldn't understand her hand gestures and it took a lot of time and energy to communicate using paper and pen. As soon as she met Zhang, she kept Wuhan First Hospital as her "fix-point hospital".

Zhang said he first got interested in sign language while he was studying at Jianghan University. "Never did I imagine applying it in my career so soon," he said.

For many years, Zhang served as a volunteer translator for hearing impaired patients. In May 2012, the hospital decided to form a sign language volunteer group and nominated Zhang as the leader. The team, made up of medical advisors and nurses, has grown to 60 people.

Zhang is writing a handbook, Sign Language Ballet, introducing commonly used gestures for colleagues and volunteers. The book is due to come out later this month.

"I have always hoped that more and more people would care about the hearing impaired. Writing this book is a dream come true for me," he said.

Qiu Weiyi contributed to this story

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