Nurses amidst Gunfire
Recorded in the pages of the proud history of war victory are the feats performed by ordinary nurses who devoted their blood, flesh and life unhesitatingly to defending the precious lives of brave soldiers of the People’s Army.
In August １９５０, President
Having received the order of love, nurses dedicated themselves to bringing every single soldier wounded in the battle back to life.
It was in the summer of １９５１ when a fierce battle was going on at Height １２１１.
Nurses of a field hospital who were evacuating wounded soldiers from the height were faced with an unexpected situation.
Enemy planes which showed up all of a sudden attacked them frantically, firing machine-guns and dropping bombs.
At that moment, a nurse put down the wounded soldier she was carrying on her back and covered him with her body.
It was Ju Ji Sun, who had been allocated to the field hospital not long ago.
When the enemy plane soared into the sky, she again took the soldier on her back.
Though she got bruises on the head and the breast, she stood up with her teeth clenched, thinking it was the way for her to implement the order of the leader and defend the motherland to evacuate as many wounded soldiers as possible and treat them well.
Following her suit, other nurses also evacuated a lot of wounded soldiers despite the showering machine-gun bullets and exploding bombs.
When the medical workers urged the injured nurses to get treatment first, they said that what hurt them more than the wounds on their bodies were mental bruises they would get if they failed to fulfill their duty.
Thus, the nurses in the wartime sacrificed themselves without hesitation in order to protect the precious lives of comrades-in-arms true to the order of the leader.
What was kept in their young hearts were an ardent consciousness that they were responsible for the soldiers’ lives hanging in the balance and a strong enthusiasm that they had no right to giving out before they rescued the wounded soldiers.
That’s why they lavished their blood and flesh on the wounded.
They also fought vehement battles against the enemies in order to obtain a handful of rice and a tablet of medicine for the patients.
The fact that seventeen nurses evacuated a number of the wounded soldiers by train through the shower of bullets in August １９５０, clearly shows how warm their love for their comrades was.
At that time, they were assigned a task to evacuate over １ ０００ wounded soldiers without fail by train.
They were well aware that they had to stake their lives in order to evacuate the patients by railway where constant threat was lingering without enough medicines and sufficient treatment apparatuses.
Nonetheless, they never stepped back as they were possessed of the consciousness that nurses were equal to combatants in carrying out the leader’s orders.
During the railway evacuation, they did their utmost to take care of the war wounded, tiding over the worst conditions.
As the brave fighters of the People’s Army laid down their lives to defend an inch of land of the country during the war, so the nurses protected the soldiers’ lives at the cost of their blood, flesh and green lives.
Like this, permeating all the routes of advance opened up by the soldiers of the People’s Army and the heights defended at the cost of their blood are also the invaluable merits of frontline nurses, well-known and unsung, who devoted themselves to the victory in the war.
Rodong Sinmun