538 Bazhaixiang Hospital Branch (1/2)

The hospital branch in Cangping District's Bazhaixiang was the most unpopular post among all the hospital branches from Cangping District Hospital.

The hospital branch with five doctors and nine nurses had never been fully staffed. The doctors and nurses who were sent over looked as if they had been exiled. They will either have to think of ways to get transferred back to the city or live in self-degradation while they waited to be dismissed.

In truth, they were indeed exiled.

Bazhaixiang was not only the most remote town in Cangping District, but it was also the most remote town of Yun Hua City.

It was easy to imagine the situation in Bazhaixiang when the country had gone under the trend of combining villages into a town, but Bazhaixiang was still considered as a village, even though it was known as a town.

In comparison, Cangping District was still considered a rather good area in Yun Hua.

The local industrial development was good, but there were also many old state-owned enterprises. The district hospitals did physical examinations for each unit every year, which was enough for the daily expenses of the hospital. They usually received patients with minor illnesses, perform fluid infusion, or carried out some palliative treatment for the local residents before their deaths. The hospital staff also lived healthily.

The doctors' income was not high, but all of them could meet their own needs. Besides, they had a lot of free time in their hands, and they could be considered to be doing a job where they could meet their families' expectations and steadily provide bread for the family.

However, it was a different situation after going to Bazhaixiang.

If Cangping District was compared to a tadpole on the map, Bazhaixiang was the tail of the tadpole.

If Yun Hua was a big tadpole, Bazhaixiang was still the tail.

This branch was located very far in the distance. Not only was it inconvenient in terms of transport, but even the workload was also very small.

When the locals suffered from minor illnesses, as long as they did not seem to be fatal, they would basically go to Cangping District's Bazhaixiang hospital branch for a check-up. In their opinion, since it was a branch of the district hospital, it was not very different from hospitals in big cities.

Of course, the performance of the Bazhaixiang hospital branch was better than that of the township hospital from the neighboring counties.

Although the doctors were dispatched to the Bazhaixiang hospital branch, while they might be reluctant to work there, they were still sent to the place by Yun Hua City. When they needed to treat patients, they could still do what they needed to do.

Moreover, the facilities of the branch were indeed pretty decent.

Correspondingly, the doctors could also get a little money from the medicine and consumables, even though the amount was so tiny it was pitiful.

”We currently only have three doctors in the hospital branch. Old Wang's wife wants a divorce, so he went back to the city to deal with it. For now, we have two doctors. Regardless of who uses what medicines and consumables, we will still split it 50/50, is that okay? It is quite a lot if we calculate it. The medicine fee is better here when we compare it to the district hospital,” said Zeng Xingteng, the only resident doctor in the branch. When he saw Xiang Xueming, he revealed the biggest source of income in the hospital. He did not have any intention of hiding it.

There was only one department in this place, and the department was further split into different divisions within this small three-storeyed building. It was impossible for him to hide it, anyway.

Zeng Xingteng was really afraid that Xiang Xueming would turn around and leave.

It was not as if this had not happened before.

After all, the doctors could not really be considered to have been distributed to another hospital if they were sent to a hospital branch. Any doctor who had some methods up their sleeves will think of all ways to not work in a hospital branch even if they could not be transferred back for the time being.

For many doctors, as long as they did not go to work at the Bazhaixiang hospital branch, they did not mind if their income was lesser.

Once, Zeng Xingteng went back to Yun Hua quietly on his own. He went to a private hospital to work and tried his best to not to go to work. He did not have any background, and he was finally driven back to Bazhaixiang.

Over the past few months, Old Wang, who was in the same situation as him, decided to just let things worsen when things became worse for him. He chose not to work and returned to Yun Hua to save his marriage. If Zeng Xingteng were to work alone in place of three people, he will want to die.

After all, Cangping District Hospital's Bazhaixiang hospital branch was still a hospital, not a small-town clinic. Zeng Xingteng occasionally had to perform emergency surgery, and he could not be lazy even if he wanted to.

Xiang Xueming looked down at his shoes, which was covered in dust, and he smiled dispiritedly. He really did not have the energy to talk.

He spent more than a year at Yun Hua Hospital, and he knew that the hospital's medical fees were not much when divided, and there were fewer consumables used when a doctor worked on minor surgeries. Even at Yun Hua Hospital, the commission normal doctors could get from medicine and consumables was only around the middle range, which was somewhere between 3,000 to 5,000 RMB. District hospitals will naturally earn lesser than that.

Therefore, when Zeng Xingteng said that they will get more medicine fees compared to district hospitals, there was really nothing attractive about it at all.

Besides, the district hospital will also take out some of the fees from physical examinations and other sources of income to provide bonuses for the doctors.

What did Cangping District Hospital's Bazhaixiang hospital branch have?

All they had was mud.

”Don't be in a hurry to become depressed.” Zeng Xingteng gave his only reinforcement some encouragement. ”Let me tell you, there are advantages to the countryside. First, we get to eat healthily, right? The eggs in the bazaar are from local farmers. The eggs are one for 1 RMB and 50 RMB for a chicken. They taste much better than the meat and eggs in the city. When the time comes for the fair, there are also villagers who will come to sell pheasants and wild boars. If you go there with 300 RMB, you can buy a tricycle's worth of things.”

After Zeng Xingteng, who was nearly ten years older than Xiang Xueming, saw that Xueming Xiang still looked indifferent, he continued to smile. ”There's also entertainment. The fastest broadband in this countryside is 10M, it would be very useful if you play games or watch movies. By the way, you did not bring your computer along, did you? It's all right, there're computers in the office. You can just take one home if you want. Just sign a letter in the Equipment Management Department. When you're done, just make sure everything is still intact and useable, and it'll be enough.”

”The housing area in this countryside is also large. The doctor's dormitory is a large yard, and everyone has one room for themselves. There's even half an acre of land when we come out of the yard. If we're in Yun Hua City, you can only dream about getting one unless you pay ten to twenty million for it.