Chapter 508 - Register Farmland After Changing Its Land Use (1) – Part 1
Young-Eun sat at a desk wearing a medical doctor’s white coat. A stethoscope was hanging around her neck. On the desk, there were disinfectants, ointment, adhesive plasters, etc.
Gun-Ho was sitting next to Young-Eun holding a list of the children’s names that the instructor gave to him.
“Oppa, you just check if each child who I will be examining is on the list. Also, hand me things when I ask, okay?”
“Got it.”
The children made a long line in front of Young-Eun, and each child sat in front of her one at a time.
“Can you tell me your name?”
Gun-Ho said to the first child sitting at the desk facing Young-Eun while holding the children’s name list along with a pen.
“My name is Byeong-Gab Oh.”
The child was smiling. He looked playful.
“Are you feeling uncomfortable on any part of your body?”
“No.”
“Oh, my gosh. Look at the back of your hand. You have a cut there!”
Young-Eun applied the ointment on the child’s hand after disinfecting it. Minor injuries were common among children while doing their recreational activities, and the children in the facility were not an exception. Young-Eun examined the children by listening to their heart and lungs through the stethoscope.
“What can you learn with the stethoscope?”
“I’m listening to their lungs mostly to see if any children here got pneumonia.”
Young-Eun then examined the children’s teeth. Some of them had cavities being developed.
“You’re right. They are hidden heroes in our society.”
Gun-Ho and Young-Eun took their time to have their lunch and walked up to the office after leaving their plates in a container where all the plates to be washed were being collected. The instructor brought them coffee in paper cups.
“The coffee is very tasty.”
“Well, this coffee is from a vending machine. I think it tastes good because you have done a good job helping others today.”
“Maybe it is so.”
Gun-Ho and Young-Eun went outside the building to look for a quiet place. While they were watching the fish in the pond that was peacefully swimming there, they didn’t feel like they wanted to go home at all.
“Oh, we’d better get back. the lady cook wanted my help to measure her blood pressure.”
Gun-Ho and Young-Eun went back to the recreational room.
Once Young-Eun received the children’s name list with marks that was made by Gun-Ho during the brief medical examination earlier, Young-Eun started explaining about each child’s condition to the instructor.
“There are three children who require dental treatment. When you can, please have their teeth checked by a dentist. One child showed a symptom of pneumonia, and I gave the child medicine. If the child persistently coughs even after two or three days, you will need to take the child to a hospital. And one child is found with eye problems. I recommend applying an eye inflammation medicine. You can buy it from a pharmacy. If the condition doesn’t improve, the child will need to see an eye doctor.”
“Thank you.”
Young-Eun took out a large box from her bag. Inside the box, there were many black plastic containers that were about the size of a paper cup. Each container had a name label to be filled in. They were the containers to hold the children’s stool.
Young-Eun handed the box to the instructor and said, “I want to conduct a stool test for the children. Each child will need to fill the box with their stool around Friday. The size of the stool should be about the size of a candy. I will come back on Saturday to conduct the test.
The instructor frowned as Young-Eun was talking about stools.
“When you collect their stools, make sure that you wear gloves. Once the children bring the containers to you, please write each child’s name on each container. And you can store them in this box until I come to collect them.”
“Is it for a worm test?”
“Yes, I want to conduct every possible worm test on them.”
At that moment, the cooking lady opened the window and asked, “Are you done here?”
“Yes, I’m done.”
Young-Eun then pulled out a blood pressure gauge from her bag. Gun-Ho asked, “When did you put that in your bag? I didn’t see it before.”
“It was already in the bag from the moment I left my condo.”
Gun-Ho didn’t see her putting the blood gauge in her bag because it was already there.
Young-Eun measured the cooking lady’s blood pressure with the device.
“Hmm. Your blood pressure is a bit high. Are you currently taking pills for your blood pressure?”
“I do sometimes, not regularly though.”
“It’s not serious yet, but it’s higher than 160. You should avoid high-sodium foods.”
“Understood, hahaha. Thank you.”
The cooking lady looked satisfied and went out of the recreational room.