The First Patient
Not a single person in the peacekeeping force was dead weight.
Aside from Sun Nanzheng, who shouldered the heaviest responsibilities, everyone else who had come with Li Bai had an important assignment of their own, and each had a different division of labor.
Of the nine people, the three doctors—Le Siyuan of the Chinese Medicine Department and internist He Ming—strengthened the Medical Team's medical capabilities, while Li Bai, a psychiatrist, filled the gaps and completed the missing piece in the team's range of treatment.
After all, no matter how versatile a general practitioner was, he could not also handle psychological therapy.
No wonder psychiatry was called the show-off branch of medicine!
Doctor Li, who had only just arrived, had taken on an irreplaceable responsibility.
Water conservancy expert Mao Duanping set out right after agricultural expert Sun Nanzheng, inspecting water sources in various places and designing and planning supporting facilities for agricultural development. Livestock expert Mi Jun served as a supplement. People could not live on rice and vegetables alone; eating meat could greatly ease the pressure on crop cultivation.
Businessman Shen Zhiqing searched for points of economic growth, coordinating with civil affairs cadre Xie Jiangyuan, who specialized in organization and coordination.
The two of them worked hard to learn Somali and Arabic. Their jobs inevitably involved dealing with the locals, so they had to overcome the language barrier and do everything they could to mobilize local manpower and resources and develop self-help efforts.
Otherwise, relying on just those few experts, they could work themselves to death and still never feed very many people.
The only solution was to mobilize the masses and restore agriculture under the experts' guidance.
As soon as the work began, whether because they did not understand the local customs or because of the