Famous Building
The old Bai-Chuan hospital, which is
located near the household registration office on Jong-Shan Road is
a very famous building in the “no sky” street area. It has once been
elected as the representative building on Jong-Shan Road.
Bai-Chuan
hospital was set up by Mr. Chen Bai-Chuan. Dr. Chen
Bai-Chuan was born in 1897. He had extraordinary intelligence.
During his studying in public school, he is always praised by his
teacher for his outstanding calligraphy and thus made him a great
calligrapher as well as an excellent doctor.
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Mr. Chen's Biography
After Mr. Chen Bai-Chuan graduated from Lukang public secondary
school, he was accepted by Taiwan Medical School and served in the
school’s subsidiary hospital after his graduation in
1921.
After two years, as an only son, he was demanded by his parents to
return to Lukang and opened Bai-Chuan hospital on today’s Jong-Shan
Road (that is, “no sky” market area). Bai-Chuan hospital is not only
famous for its obstetrics and gynecology department but also its
internal medicine, surgical, and pediatrics departments.
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Dr. Chen Bai-Chuan
was a very nice person. He not only ran his own hospital but also
served as the school doctor of the Wun-Kai elementary school. He
also has served in Lukang Chuan-Jao Beadhouse, Lukang Sanitary
Office, and Lukang Civil Service Group’s subsidiary hospital. Dr.
Chen Bai-Chuan served as a doctor for 65 years and healed tens of
thousands patients. He passed away in 1987 at the age of 92. He had
15 children and each of them was outstanding.
Dr. Chen Bai-Chuan take “healing people,
healing the country” as his responsibility. He thought that as a
doctor, he should base on medical theories, target civilians’ health
and achieve the goal of building a strong country with healthy
civilians by means of medical measures. Mr. Chen Bai-Chuan always
responded to patients’ call and didn’t charge the poor patients and
thus his medical morality and skills was well-known in the Lukang
coastal area.
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The
Frontspiece
Today, Bai-Chuan hospital still
lies in the Jhongshan road. Although it's not as crowded as
it used to be, but the
unique frontispiece still catches the
eye of tourists. The building, famous of its frontispiece,
is also a precious heritage to Lukang. As we walk by the
street, we cannot but fix our eyes on the building. |