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[Breath of Destiny]

[Episode 23]

At least, you didn't

commit murder, right?

Murder.

Truth.

It was more than one year ago

during the annual

polio vaccination on the island.

One day, Dr Ruan suddenly told me that

the vaccines that he had were not working.

Not working?

How did you know that they were not working?

This kind of vaccines

have to be stored

and transported under

strict regulations

between two to eight Celsius.

Every vaccine tube

will have a temperature label on them.

If the temperature is too high,

it'll turn from

white to black.

We are at a tropical island.

The average temperature here is above 30 Celsius every day.

One day,

Dr Ruan suddenly found out that

the labels of

all the newly arrived vaccines in the refrigerator of

village centre turned black.

So,

the vaccines were rendered useless.

And then?

You can just exchange

those spoiled vaccines with the Health Department.

You didn't do it.

Why?

The refrigerators

that are used to keep the vaccines in all of the village centres

in the east district are monopolised by

the same company.

If we exchanged the vaccines, we would let the cat out of the bag.

And the boss of the company

would be held responsible for it.

We couldn't exchange them.

Which company is it?

Your uncle's company,

An Wan Hao.

So,

what did you do with

those spoiled vaccines?

We...

We

used them

on the children.

Officer.

Can we talk?

What do you want to talk about?

I want to

make my litigant into a state's evidence.

Sister Shu Hui, give me the medicine.

When I get my salary next week, I'll pay you for it.

Nonsense. You can only get this medicine with the doctor's prescription.

You can't just buy it, okay?

-Jin Lei? -Give it back.

-He's stealing the painkillers again. -Miss Qiao.

Ah Min has just given birth. Can't you stay sober for her?

It has just been two years. Do you miss the rehabilitation centre already?

You got it wrong. Just this once. Let me go.

If there's once, there'll be twice. So, no.

Listen to her. Stop going back into this hellhole.

I...

Jin Lei!

Jin Lei.

-When did this happen? -Miss Qiao, I...

-Jin Lei! -Don't move!

I'll really get mad if you don't stop!

Fever and paronychia.

Very likely that this is bacterial endocarditis.

What should we do then?

What are you talking about? I don't understand.

You don't need to understand. Stay and get yourself checked now.

I don't want to go to the rehabilitation centre.

I've changed. I don't take drugs anymore.

Jin Lei, listen to her. Dr Qiao is a professional doctor.

If she asks you to stay, you have to stay.

I don't want it anymore, okay?

I don't want it!

Jin Lei!

I'm sorry, Miss Liang.

Jin Lei has a really unfortunate life.

He was born with congenital heart defect

and was abandoned by his father.

After that, he was adopted by an old beggar.

But that old beggar was a drug addict.

That's how Jin Lei got into drugs.

After the old beggar passed away,

Jin Lei's addiction got worse.

When my father was still alive, he pitied him

and sent him to the rehabilitation centre.

He just came out last year.

-You cooked soup for me again today? -How are you today?

You bring soup to the dean's room every day.

You really think that this is your home.

Yu Qian, I want to ask you.

Is the guy downstairs just now called Jin Lei?

What has it got to do with you?

He stole from our research centre and our men caught him.

But I saw that he was seriously ill. So, I let him go.

So?

I suspect that it's endocarditis.

Bacterial endocarditis.

He needs to go through an echocardiogram test to be sure.

It's so rare for us to think alike.

I'll get him to do a check-up as soon as possible.

Yu Qian.

Yu Qian, listen to me.

When Jin Lei comes again,

you have to strictly follow the medical regulations

to do a full body check-up for him.

He or his family member has to sign the consent letter.

Or else, no matter how critical his condition is,

you can't treat him and you can't give him money to make him stay.

Why not?

If you keep him here,

you have to take full responsibility of him.

Actually, Yu Qian was...

You want me to leave him to die?

I'm really saying this for your own good.

You don't have enough clinical experience.

There are things that you can't solve just by being kind.

Yu Qian, she's not asking you to leave him to die.

But Kelly, I believe that

Yu Qian just wants to do her best to help the patient, right?

No matter what, this time, you can't just do as you wish.

You can't be so childish again.

Yes. I'm childish.

You are the smartest and most cunning person in this world.

But Kelly, you are not a doctor of this Friendship Hospital.

You have no rights to comment about how we work here.

Excuse me.

The officer is here again.

He wants to meet Dean Daniel and Dr Qiao in the meeting room.

He said that it's about the fake Hank.

Okay. I got it.

That's the overall situation right now.

This will affect the polio vaccination that you are in charge of right now

and because Dr Ge Nu Wen is involved.

I should let you know about this.

So, it means that

Dr Ge was involved in the kidnapping of Dr Zhou?

We don't have any tangible proof yet.

All the messages in the suspect's phone have been deleted.

[Because of the low-quality refrigerators, all of the polio vaccines were spoiled.]

[Those refrigerators are produced by An Tribe.]

[The person-in-charge was Roy.]

[And Dr Ge kept this secret for Roy.]

How could they do that?

So despicable.

In my opinion,

this is like a dormant volcano that will blow up at any time.

Besides, they already predicted that others might find out about it.

So, they spread the rumours

to make the villagers think that the kids are ill because of ghosts

so that we can't take their blood for inspection.

Lastly, they orchestrated that medical accident

to close down Friendship Hospital for good.

By doing so, no one will investigate this matter further.

They sacrificed the health of so many innocent kids for their own benefits.

These people are too cruel.

Xiao Cong.

I think your summary for today is excellent.

I've changed my mind about you.

Now, all of us know

the reason behind the spoiled vaccines.

We have a polio epidemic now.

It'll be very scary if it becomes a large-scale outbreak.

I won't repeat again about

the importance of our more potent vaccination this time.

For the next few days, there'll be a lot of tasks for us to do.

Dr Huo, I would like to ask you for a favour.

Our following investigation will require lots of medical knowledge

as well as information regarding Dr Xie Hua.

We need a doctor from China to cooperate with us.

Do you have anyone in mind?

Zhou Yue. Are you okay with it, Zhou Yue?

Yes. I'll make sure to help them as best as I can.

John.

How is Uncle Wen?

Does he have a lawyer?

If not, I can get him one.

Yes. He does have a lawyer actually.

Really?

-Who? -Her name is An Fanny.

An Fanny?

Okay, I got it. Thanks.

[Friendship Hospital]

[Friendship Hospital]

Dr Qiao.

Are you okay?

So, Uncle Wen's lawyer is really someone from the An tribe.

He's really close to the An tribe.

So, this is really Uncle Wen's fault.

He's not innocent.

He's really the bad guy.

He injected those spoiled vaccines into the children in the village.

He injected those vaccines into the children's bodies.

Where is his conscience?

I've always known that he wants to avenge his family.

But to drag so many families into his personal revenge,

how could he do that?

He spent so much time with us

and acted like nothing had happened.

It's so scary.

So scary.

Dr Qiao.

I know that

you are very close to Dr Ge.

You are good friends.

So, it'll be hard for you

to accept it in such a short time.

But hopefully,

you won't be too upset about it.

I only realised today that

others are not wrong.

Kelly is not wrong.

I'm a childish and simple-minded person.

I'm an idiot.

Enough. Don't say that about yourself.

Look at you.

You grew up in a simple and rich family.

That's why you are very naive.

Because everyone loves you and dotes on you.

But actually,

your contributions and love

towards everybody

are quite terrific too.

Dr Liao.

I love you too.

It's late now.

You should rest earlier.

♫ Your dazzling light is my fortress ♫

♫ Who do you long for under the starlight last night? ♫

♫ We accidentally caught each other's eyes ♫

I love you.

Can you hug me?

♫ Let me become your darling ♫

♫ Don't pretend to be indifferent, this is the taste of love ♫

♫ I'm sure that you feel it too ♫

♫ I'm drunk in your smile ♫

Dr Qiao.

Don't do this anymore.

Why?

You don't like me?

♫ Who do you long for under the starlight last night? ♫

♫ We accidentally caught each other's eyes ♫

♫ Let me become your darling ♫

[Attention, everyone.]

[If you have children who are not vaccinated yet,]

[please bring them to the village floating centre at once.]

[We have to complete the vaccination by today.]

[Vaccination is good for the children.]

[As the village chief, I can attest to that.]

[Parents, please take your children who are not yet vaccinated]

[to the village centre right now.]

Are all of you here?

Yes!

Who else is not here?

-Basically, we are all here. -Basically, we are all here!

Let me tell you!

If someone is absent,

I'll go to their house to eat every day!

I'll act on it for sure.

Dr Huo.

Let me tell you a groundbreaking news.

Last night, the governor himself called me on my phone.

I was so shocked.

I was too excited until I farted three times.

Stop laughing. What are you laughing at?

All of you know that since young,

I'll fart non-stop whenever I'm excited.

Dr Huo. If all the children in our village

are vaccinated,

is it going to be a huge merit for me?

Will the governor give me a medal for it?

I'll bring honour to my family then.

Great!

Okay. Quiet. Now.

Stay here and Da Bang will give you a lesson.

As for the children, follow Sister Xin Lu to queue up over there.

Hurry up. Here.

Okay. All the adults, come to me.

Here. Come closer.

You know how to speak Chinese now? Amazing.

Look over here.

Over there.

Meng Pa.

Where do you live?

Because the whole village is vaccinated for the first time.

Because the whole village is vaccinated for the first time.

Dr Huo.

You are the telltale, right?

You are indeed amazing. This is really effective.

For a total of four times.

For a total of four times.

The first time and the second are injections...

For the first time and the second time,

you'll get the injection. You'll get vaccinated.

Understand?

And then...

-Put pressure on it. -Okay. Next.

You are so brave.

-Come. I'll mark it. -It won't be painful.

Give me your hand.

Don't be afraid. It won't be painful.

You are all done.

Come for the second shot next week.

-How many times will it be? -Four times.

The first two times are injections and the last two times are oral medications.

-Okay. Thank you. -You are welcome. Bye.

Say goodbye to her.

All children below the age of 15

are going to be injected with this stronger vaccination, understand?

-Good. -It's so much better today.

Yes.

-Next... -That's right.

For the past few days, the Health Department has been promoting it.

We have volunteers going to every family to convince them.

Besides, the village councils of every village

have really given strict orders for every village to accept the vaccination.

That's how the villagers are all convinced.

-Where are you living? -I'm living in this village.

But comes to think of it,

you have to take credit for this.

Of course I'm astonishingly wise

and courageous.

But in the end, the major contributor is John.

Why are you feeling so proud instead?

But look.

The way the villagers see us now is different.

They are quite friendly.

That's because of ghosts.

That rumour about us being haunted.

Hi, little one.

Hello, brother doctor.

You should call him uncle doctor.

It's brother. Come.

It won't be painful. Let me sanitise the area for you first.

Just like what I said just now,

for the third and fourth time,

we'll be taking the medication orally.

Oral medication.

[For this stronger polio vaccination,]

[Dr Huo and the others did a lot of work ahead of time.]

[Actually, as a doctor,]

[besides having outstanding medical skills,]

[they need to be compassionate towards their patients too.]

[A doctor needs to be kind.]

[Having a good heart and good skills]

[are the essentials of being a good doctor.]

Dr Qiao.

Dr Qiao.

-Good morning, Dr Zhou. -What's wrong? Are you ill?

No. I'm fine.

That's good then.

They are not down yet. Let's wait here.

Okay.

Dr Zhou. Can I ask you a question?

Well.

Is Dr Liao...

What's wrong with him?

It's nothing. It's just a minor thing. Forget it.

What happened?

He's always keeping people at arm's length.

-He's always like that. -It's nothing.

You don't look well. Are you ill?

No.

I burnt the midnight oil to study about the files that John gave me.

It's okay. I'll just take a nap during the journey later.

I'm fine.

No, you have a fever.

You should stay back today.

You've been working for so many days. Take a rest.

No. Dr Huo went to the Health Department for a meeting.

I'm the team leader. How can I be absent?

Wait here for them. I'll check if our ride has arrived or not.

Okay.

-Be careful. -You too.

The families up here are mushroom farmers.

It's the harvest season now.

So, they said that they didn't have time to bring their children for vaccination.

-We'll have to trouble you then, Dr Zhou. -This is my duty.

-Are you okay? What's wrong? -I'm fine.

Is that thunder?

No. Dr Zhou. The rain will get heavier and heavier.

Come. Let's go now.

Dr Zhou, where is your bag?

You must have left it in the previous house.

Oh my goodness. Here, take my straw hat.

It's okay. Wear it. I'm fine.

The straw hut in front is my house.

Wait for me there. I'll get your bag for you.

There are some clothes in there for you to get changed. Wait for me.

Xiao Ruan.

The rain will stop soon and I'll be dry in no time.

What are you doing here?

Cover for me.

-Don't look. -I'm not.

Look at the sky.

Thank you.

Hello?

Xiao Ruan.

Really? Great.

It's okay.

It's raining so heavily.

We'll meet up

after the rain stops, okay?

Wait.

Your clothes really fit me well.

Thank you. Bye.

A call from Xiao Ruan.

These clothes really suit you well.

Really?

When will the rain stop?

By the way,

why are you here?

-I came here to save you. -Save me?

Yu Qian said that you have a fever and asked me to bring you some medications.

You don't need to save me from fever. I won't die from it.

Open your mouth.

This is a peach-flavoured tablet.

You are a doctor. But you don't know how to take care of yourself.

How dare you lecture me.

Do you know that you have a serious wound?

Why didn't you stay in the hospital?

Why did you come out to run errands?

It's raining so heavily now.

What if you get wet and cause inflammation in your wound again?

What if it tears open again?

How dare you lecture me?

I'm so seriously injured.

But do you even care about me?

Of course I care about you. I was...

Forget it.

You even scolded me.

You said that I'm handsome.

And...

You weren't asleep?

You even secretly held my hand.

I didn't hold your hand.

It was a thank-you handshake.

Like this?

Why are you thanking me?

♫ You're like an enigma ♫

I

♫ Don't know where you come from ♫

really want to thank you.

♫ Imbued with the warmth of sunshine ♫

Thank you for saving me.

♫ The solace of moonlight ♫

But let me warn you. Don't do it again.

♫ How wondrous ♫

If you are so seriously hurt, you might die, do you know that?

♫ Gently, you come closer ♫

If you die, I...

Are you afraid that I'll die?

♫ Melting the ice on me ♫

♫ Tolerating your petty desires ♫

♫ Your playful antics ♫

Don't worry.

♫ How happy ♫

I can't bear to die yet.

There are still many things that I haven't done.

♫ I want to be with you ♫

This is the first one.

♫ From sunset till sunrise ♫

♫ Dragging you to the rooftop ♫

♫ Embracing while counting stars ♫

♫ Whispering sweet nothings ♫

♫ I want to be with you ♫

♫ From sunset till sunrise ♫

♫ Be it smooth or bumpy ♫

♫ The best vistas ♫

♫ Are all in your eyes ♫

♫ In my heart ♫

Kelly.

[Why aren't you at the hospital?]

[It's raining so heavily. Where are you?]

I just went out.

What's wrong?

[Xiang Wan is back. We came to visit you.]

[But we couldn't find you.]

Why are you always so worrisome?

Okay, I got it. Let's talk later. Okay.

You really tasted like peach.

♫ You're like an enigma ♫

♫ Don't know where you come from ♫

♫ Imbued with the warmth of sunshine ♫

♫ The solace of moonlight ♫

♫ How wondrous ♫

♫ I want to be with you ♫

♫ From sunset till sunrise ♫

♫ Dragging you to the rooftop ♫

♫ Embracing while counting stars ♫

♫ Whispering sweet nothings ♫

♫ I want to be with you ♫

♫ From sunset till sunrise ♫

♫ Be it smooth or bumpy ♫

♫ The best vistas ♫

♫ Are all in your eyes ♫

♫ In my heart ♫

What do you want to do?

Chase after you.

Dr Zhou!

Dr Zhou!

I'm here!

Let's make a promise not to tell anyone about this.

-Why not? -Of course not.

How can you tell others about this?

Hurry up. I don't care. No matter what, don't tell anyone about this.

Xiao Ruan.

Dr Zhou, sorry for the wait.

I brought you your bag.

Thank you for the trouble.

Xiao Ruan.

Just now, Dr Zhou

took a cold medicine.

Yes. I have a little bit of cough.

Besides, these clothes are really nice.

Thank you, Xiao Ruan.

By the way, it's really peach flavoured.

Dr Zhou, the rain has already stopped.

Let's hike up to the mountain now.

Okay.

-Take the clothes for me. -Okay.

Daniel.

-You sent the medicine to Dr Zhou? -Yes.

It was raining just now. Did you manage to find a shelter?

Yes.

It was raining for an hour.

What did you do there?

Why do you have so many questions?

-Brother Daniel, Dr Qiao. -Tell me.

Cong, how are you? You look well.

I'm good. Of course I'm fine.

With so many colleagues taking care of me, of course I'm fine now.

If I lie down on that bed again,

I might be suspected of depression again.

Okay. Come on.

Wu said that it's too hot today.

So, he cooked herbal tea for all of us.

So, he gave me a ride.

Okay. We'll go there first.

Okay. I'll go and distribute Wu's herbal tea.

Okay.

Today, we want to talk to you about poliomyelitis.

It's also known as polio.

Globally, polio is known as

the most dangerous infectious disease.

The virus will mostly infect children between one to six years old.

It can even infect older children

who have never gotten it before.

The virus will mainly

attack the children's nervous system

that will cause permanent paralysis.

Currently, there is still

no effective cure for this virus in this world.

And we can't stop the paralysis from happening.

So, the only way to

overcome this virus is to get vaccinated at an early age.

Tell the people around you that the only way is to...

Get vaccinated at an early age.

So, for the past few months,

the children in the village had a fever and their bodies were in pain

not because they were possessed but because they were infected.

-I see. -See? I told you.

Someone is still spreading this rumour around.

It has already ruined the reputation of our hospital and the Chinese doctors.

It has also affected you from seeking treatment for your children.

Upon investigation, there are 18 cases in the east district now.

But we've put them into quarantine. They won't infect other children.

Good.

Who is so evil?

Why did they spread this rumour?

They are trying to eliminate our family lines!

That's right!

The investigation is already under way.

-The police are onto it now. Don't worry. -Calm down.

This is for Dean Li.

-Dean Li. -This is for Dr Zhou.

This is for Dr Qiao.

They haven't claimed their tea.

So, please help me take these to them.

Okay.

Thank you.

Dr Li.

What is it, Xin Lu?

I have a question.

Why the only sick ones are the children from the east district?

A few days ago, I went to the west district to ask around.

The children there are all fine.

Actually, there are many factors for that.

One of the reasons is the man-made factor that we talked about just now.

Of course,

it's also related to the lifestyle, medical standard

and the education level of the east district.

The lack of understanding towards polio

or the refusal to get vaccinated

is a major factor too.

Some families will be gone for many days

to plant mushrooms on hills

or sail out to catch fish.

So, they'll miss the vaccination period.

Of course. When more people are not vaccinated,

it's more possible for an outbreak to happen.

So, it's because we are too poor.

Do we have to die just because we are poor?

That's right.

No.

Who said that you have to die just because you are poor?

Wang Xiao Cong!

Wang Xiao Cong.

He is our nurse from China.

Wang Xiao Cong, Nurse Wang.

He's a male nurse?

He is my master.

He's a great nurse. Besides, he's a good story-teller.

It's true. You can listen to his stories.

You can listen to his good stories.

Okay. Let's give Nurse Wang a round of applause.

My fellow audience,

let me tell you a story today.

The person in this photo

is called Gu Fang Zhou.

In China, we address him as the Candy Pill Grandpa.

He's a great virologist.

Poliomyelitis.

It's also known as the polio.

Around 1957,

my father was still very young.

He told me that China had once suffered

a major polio outbreak.

Nantong in Jiangshu, China,

is a very beautiful city.

But in just a night, more than 1000 children collapsed.

-More than 400 children died. -In just a night?

Yes. From then on, the virus has begun to spread.

Children from every city continued to collapse.

And at that time,

Candy Pill Grandpa, Mr Gu Fang Zhou, was ordered to

figure out a way to control that epidemic.

Just now, Dr Li already said that

there's no cure for polio.

The only way

is to control the spread through vaccination.

But that time, China was very poor.

So, he went to other countries

that have succeeded in creating the polio vaccine to ask about the price.

The vaccine was too expensive.

They couldn't even afford it.

What should we do then?

We can't afford it too.

So, Mr Gu started to do research about

creating a polio vaccine that China can afford.

-Did he succeed? -How did he do it?

I told you just now.

China was very poor at that time.

So, even the research centre

was built by Mr Gu and the other doctors and scientists in his team.

After going through a hard time of

researching, analysing and studying,

in the end, Mr Gu decided to

use the live-attenuated vaccine method.

But that method had not been tested on humans yet.

So, Mr Gu decided to experiment it on him.

All the doctors and scientists who were in his team

volunteered to be the test subjects.

They injected the vaccines into themselves

and used their own bodies to conduct this experiment.

Luckily,

the vaccine experiment was a success.

But the vaccines were not safe enough.

Because the vaccines were meant for children.

But all the volunteers were adults.

They needed to experiment it on a child to be sure.

Yes.

But who would let their child become a lab rat?

Yes.

No family would want to do that.

At that time,

Mr Gu had a child in mind.

That person was his one-month old son.

And that baby became the first child in China

to take the polio vaccine.

The experiment was a success.

Finally, China had a polio vaccine that

they could afford.

Mr Gu even considered about

the children's love for candy.

Yes.

So, he made all the vaccines into the shape of the candy.

These are

the candies that we ate when we were young.

Mr Gu even requested for all children

to be vaccinated under strict regulations.

From then on,

the polio virus in China

was brought under control.

In 2000,

the WHO confirmed that

China is now

a polio-free country.

The person who was signing on

this WHO certificate is Mr Gu.

Mr Gu didn't give up even though his country

was poor and had no money.

So,

being poor won't kill you.

It's only a disease when you think that you should die because you are poor.

-And that disease should be treated. -Yes, well said!

Great!