Chungqing, Xichuan
Wuhan Sanitarium & Hospital Chuangqin Branch 1938 

During the war, medicine and equipmentswere very scarce and expensive. The solution was to get them from outside. So Elder E L Longway, then the China Division President, and a few others often drove a truck between Shanghai and Chungqingthrough the Japanese occupied areas and no men’s land, or between Changqingand Burma. Close your eyes and imagine the movie-like scenes. Once the Japanese air force had a bombing raid. Immediately after the raid was over, the hospital emergency team in its ambulance went out to save lives. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek saw that from a mountaintop and soon a special award was given to Dr. Liu to honor the Adventist Hospital. The Wuhan Sanitarium and Hospital ChungqingBranch was founded in 1938. It was a four-story building. Dr. Herbert Liu was the founder and first Medical Director. At that time Chungqing, the war capital of China, was daily bombed by the Japanese warplanes. To increase safety, air raid shelter, or tunnels, were constructed to house all patients and workers. In 1940, a bomb destroyed the hospital, but soon it was reconstructed to accommodate 80 inpatients. Since patients were many and doctors very few, the daily routine become this:4 AM surgical operations, 7-9 AM rounds to care for inpatients, 9-12 noon outpatient clinic, PM clinic, or purchasing medicine and equipments, evenings teaching nursing classes, or conduct: health lectures and Bible studies, 12 hours daily, no holidays and no days off!