Professor Wang Furong, a pioneer in the creation of a major medical school and an old expert on moving westward, dies

According to the WeChat public account "Chongqing Medical University", Professor Wang Furong , the founding pioneer of Chongqing Medical University, a well-known respiratory expert in China, one of the founders of the pulmonary department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, and the dean of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, was due to illness.
Passed away at 19:58 on October 24, 2021, at the age of 92
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Professor Wang Furong has been engaged in medical, teaching, and scientific research related to respiratory medicine for a long time, and has made indelible contributions to the teaching and medical career of pulmonary medicine, filling the gap in respiratory medicine in the western region
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In addition, according to the information provided by the WeChat public account "The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University", in 1958, the Party Central Committee and the State Council made a major decision to change the backward situation of lack of medical care and medicine in the central and western regions, requiring the eastern coastal cities to adopt a separate law.
Divide into two or even one into three, move medical schools and hospitals to the Midwest, in order to strengthen the people's health and build a great country
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When the news came, the inside and outside of the hospital suddenly exploded, and all kinds of attitudes and discussions were shouting.
Everyone was thinking and guessing where he was going.
After all, Shanghai was the most prosperous and advanced metropolis in China at that time.
All aspects of social life were far ahead of any city in China.
We must bid farewell to it forever, bid farewell to the hard-won stable life, bid farewell to parents, brothers, and loved ones.
How much courage and sacrifice does it take to go to a remote and remote place?

Our well-known infectious disease expert, a Professor Qian Duck, Shanghai First Medical College when he was vice president and chief Huashan Hospital president , for the sake of the old experts worthy of a model with a model, he was ordered to organize a group of crack visit Chongqing, supported the establishment of Chongqing Medical College
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The power of role models is infinite.
Under the active drive of Qian Ting, Wang Mingqi and others, a group of young people took the initiative to ask for support for intensive medical treatment.
Wang Furong is one of them
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Wang Furong recalled: “I followed the two kings (Wang Mingqi and Wang Chonglin) to Chongqing and started to establish the First Hospital attached to the Heavy Medical
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On August 16, 1958, Wang Furong and his entourage arrived in Chongqing.
They formally started work on September 1 of the same year, teaching classes and outpatient clinics at the same time
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According to sources, the working conditions at the time were very difficult.
Wang Furong and others not only had to go to the countryside for medical treatment, but also farm work
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Public information shows that the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University was established in Chongqing in 1957 from the former Shanghai First Medical University (now Fudan University) Affiliated Hospital.