Motorist saves epileptic pedestrian's life from force of habit as hospital nurse

A young male nurse recently saved the life of an epileptic pedestrian when driving on a street in Kunshan City, east China's Jiangsu Province.

Qian Jiahao, a nurse at Kunshan Second People's Hospital, was driving to work at around 14:00 on October 16 when he spotted a man suddenly collapsed not far away, showing symptoms of an epileptic seizure.

Qian wasted no time in getting the fainted man and his two companions into his car and rushed them to a nearby hospital.

"I was waiting for the traffic light when I saw three people, who probably got off work or finished a meal together. One of them collapsed over there and lost consciousness. He kept convulsing with foam forming around his mouth. It looked like an epileptic seizure, so I know something got wrong. I immediately pulled my car to a stop, helped them get in, and rushed them to the hospital. Calling 120 [for an ambulance] would've cost over ten minutes," said Qian, a nurse at the Gastrointestinal Surgery Department of Kunshan Second People's Hospital.

Qian helped bring the man into the emergency room. A diagnosis later confirmed the patient had indeed suffered an epileptic seizure.

After treatment, the patient recovered and was discharged from hospital.

As one of the few male nurses at Kunshan Second People's Hospital, Qian said his admiration for his occupation started when he was in elementary school. After sustaining a bone fracture, he had to make a trip to the hospital, and later felt in love with the job as a nurse. After graduating from middle school, he chose to major in nursing. It has now been three years since Qian, born in the 2000s, started working in the hospital.

Qian's supervisor described him as a devoted worker.

"Whenever the patients in the wards here need help with their trouble, he would eagerly jump in. This young man is a diligent worker, and we all adore him," said Pu Yan, a nurse supervisor at the Gastrointestinal Surgery Department of Kunshan Second People's Hospital.

"To get better and leave the hospital in good health, a patient needs in large part the doctor's exceptional expertise, and next to that comes the nurses' tender care," said Qian.

Motorist saves epileptic pedestrian's life from force of habit as hospital nurse

China and Canada should work together to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Beijing on Friday.

He, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while attending the Canada-China Trade and Investment Banquet together with the visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Speaking at the event, He said that under the strategic guidance of the important consensus reached by their leaders, China and Canada should adhere to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, win-win cooperation, and mutual success, and jointly promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations.

China is steadfastly expanding high-standard opening up, continuously developing new quality productive forces, and is willing to work with countries around the world, including Canada, to create new prospects for cooperation, said He.

Carney noted at the banquet that China is Canada's second-largest trading partner and said Canada looks forward to strengthening high-level exchanges with China, making full use of dialogue mechanisms in areas such as the economy and trade, and deepening cooperation in trade, agriculture, energy and other fields.

Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to begin a four-day official visit to China, marking the first trip to the country by a Canadian prime minister in eight years.

China, Canada should work together for stable, healthy, sustainable economic ties: Vice Premier