100-year-old medical expert donates her body for medical research after death - SHINE

Dr Wu Jieyi (left) astatine work

Dr Wu Jieyi, a 100-year-old aesculapian adept and developer of China's aboriginal home colposcope, donated her assemblage for aesculapian probe aft passing distant recently.

She devoted her full beingness and present has adjacent donated her assemblage for aesculapian development, officials from the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University said.

Wu started moving astatine the assemblage aft graduating from aesculapian schoolhouse successful 1946. She worked connected the beforehand enactment of aesculapian signifier and helped found obstetric and gynecology departments astatine respective hospitals.

One day, a diligent with cervical smear came to her for consultation. After comparing with aesculapian reports successful Japanese aesculapian journals, she confirmed the diligent suffered from cervical crab and launched timely treatment.

The early-stage cervical crab diagnosis was a situation successful China successful the 1960s and 1970s, since determination was nary colposcope successful the federation astatine that time. The cervical smear wasn't capable to bash close diagnosis.

In bid to boost aboriginal detection of cervical cancer, Wu studied overseas aesculapian materials and went to optical instrumentality plants to jointly make China's earliest colposcope, which greatly enhanced the diagnosis complaint of cervical crab and pre-cancer change.

Wu devoted each of her beingness to medicine and decided to donate her assemblage aft death. She expressed her program to her household and received their support.

"We are arrogant of my grandma's decision. She devoted each her beingness to patients and the aesculapian manufacture and near her emotion to aesculapian students aft death," said Sun Yibo, Wu's grandson and besides a doctor. "Her assemblage returned to her schoolhouse and volition assistance bid aesculapian students."

"Under my grandma's influence, I americium besides actively progressive successful wellness acquisition and americium helping beforehand her emotion and dedication among much patients," helium added.

Dr Wu Jieyi practicing Chinese calligraphy aft retirement