Likitan daji dan kasar Holland ya ceci rayukan daruruwan Amurkawa fursunonin yaki

Doctor Hekking tsakanin tsoffin sojojin Amurka (Hoto: The Indo Project)

A wurare da dama ciki har da Thailand, wannan lokacin na tunawa da cika shekaru 76 da kawo karshen yakin duniya na biyu tare da mamayar sojojin Japan. A yau zan so in dan yi tunani a kan likitan dan kasar Holland Henri Hekking, wanda aka karrama shi a matsayin jarumi a Amurka amma da kyar ya yi suna a Netherlands, kuma wannan ba gaskiya ba ne.

An haifi Henri H. Hekking a ranar 13 ga Fabrairu, 1903 a Surabaya da ke tsibirin Java na Indonesiya, a lokacin daya daga cikin lu'ulu'u na daular mulkin mallaka na Holland. Sha'awarsa ga ganye da tsire-tsire na magani ya taso tun yana ƙarami. Wannan ya kasance godiya ga kakarsa, kakar Zeeland Vogel, wadda ke zaune a Lawang, wani garin dutse a gefen dajin da ke sama da Surabaya, kuma wanda ya yi suna a matsayin mai maganin ganye. An aika mata Henri lokacin da ya kamu da cutar zazzabin cizon sauro kuma bayan ya warke ya fita tare da kakarsa lokacin da ta je neman tsire-tsire a cikin daji ko kuma ta saya a kasuwannin da ke kewaye. Ta wuce sau biyu a mako kampongs don taimakawa marasa lafiya na asali tare da shirye-shiryenta na magani. Wataƙila ilimin da ya samu da kansa ya ƙarfafa shi ya karanci likitanci daga baya.

Tare da taimakon da ya samu daga Ma'aikatar Tsaro, ya shiga cikin Faculty of Medicine a Leiden a 1922. Bayan kammala karatunsa a shekara ta 1929, an ƙyale sabon likitan ya zaɓi aiki a Suriname ko Dutch East Indies. Ya zama, ba tare da shakka ba, ƙasarsa ta haihuwa. Domin biyan diyya na karatun da sojoji suka biya, an ba shi kwangilar yin aiki na tsawon shekaru goma a matsayin likita na soja a matsayin Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL). Da farko an ajiye shi a Batavia. Amma saboda tsarin jujjuyawar da KNIL ke amfani da shi ga likitocin soja, ya canza wurare duk bayan shekaru biyu sannan ya kare a Malang daga baya a cikin garrison Celebes da Surabaya.

Matashin likitan ba wai kawai ya ƙware kansa wajen yaƙar cututtuka na wurare masu zafi ba, har ma ya zurfafa iliminsa na tsire-tsire da ganyaye masu amfani. Wasu abokan aikinsa masu ra'ayin mazan jiya sun yi watsi da na ƙarshe a matsayin ɓacin rai, amma wannan suka ya bar Hekking sanyi. Rayuwa'a Gabas' Da alama yana son hakan kuma lokacin da kwantiraginsa ya ƙare ya sanya hannu kan sabuwar kwangila. Maimakon ya ɗauki hutun da ya cancanta zuwa Netherlands, Hekking ya tafi nazarin tiyata a Italiya. A watan Satumba na 1939 karatunsa ya katse ba zato ba tsammani ba zato ba tsammani ainihin barazanar yaki da yunkurin sojojin Holland. A farkon shekara ta 1940 mun sami kyaftin-likita mai aji na biyu Henri Hekking tare da matarsa ​​da ’ya’yansa biyu a sabon tasharsa da ke yammacin yankin Holland na tsibirin Timor.

Ranar 19 ga Fabrairu, 1942, sojojin daular Jafananci sun kai hari ga Timor da ƙarfi. Sojojin da ke kawance, hade da 'yan Birtaniyya, Australiya, New Zealanders, Indiyawa, Amurkawa da kuma Dutch daga KNIL, da kyar za su iya tsayawa a ranar 23 ga Fabrairu. An kama Doctor Hekking fursuna na yaki kuma an tura shi zuwa bariki na 10^e bataliya na masu keke a Batavia. An saka danginsa  a sansanin farar hula a Java.

Sa’ad da shirin Jafanawa na layin dogo da ke tsakanin Thailand da Burma ya ƙaru sosai, an tura Hekking tare da ’yan’uwansu dubu da yawa zuwa wani babban kurkukun Changi da ke Singapore. Ya isa kasar Singapore ba tare da samun nasara ba kuma ya bar jirgin kasa a cikin watan Agustan 1942, a cikin motar dabba, zuwa sansanin da ke Nong Pladuk inda aka ba shi ayyukan dafa abinci.

Kusan fursunonin yaƙi na Amirka dubu ɗaya ne Jafanawa suka yi amfani da su a lokacin WWII don ginawa da kuma kula da hanyar jirgin ƙasa ta Thai-Burma. Kaso mafi tsoka na wannan rundunar sojojin ruwa ne, ma'aikatan jirgin USS Houston, wani jirgin ruwa mai nauyi na Amurka, wanda ya nutse a ranar 28 ga Fabrairu, 1942 a lokacin yakin Tekun Java. Wadannan mutane, yawancinsu Texans, an tura su daga sansanin tattarawa a Changi (Signpore) zuwa Tailandia inda suka yi aiki a kan titin jirgin kasa daga Oktoba 1942. A cikin katafaren sansani na Japan da ke kusa da Kanchanaburi sun sadu da likitan da aka canjawa wuri yanzu Hekking, wanda ya taimaka wa yawancin majiyyatan su cikin sauri kuma, sama da duka, da inganci tare da tsire-tsire masu magani, duk da bayyanar rashin magani na al'ada. Bayan 'yan makonni an yi wa Amurkawa tattaki zuwa yadi a Hintok.

Akwai wasu likitocin Burtaniya kaɗan a sansanonin da ke kusa da Hintok, amma suna da al'adar yin rigakafin yanke sassan jikin da suka ji rauni ko masu cutar. Amurkawa ba su da kwarin gwiwa a kansu yanayin operandi kuma ya yi nasarar ba wa daya daga cikin jami’an hukumar kula da layin dogo ta kasar Japan cin hanci da agogon hannu guda biyu masu tsada. Nan suka rarrashe shi ya maida Dr. Hekking zuwa sansaninsu. Hekking ya yi amfani da iliminsa na kud-da-kud game da shuke-shuken da suka girma a zahiri ƴan mitoci kaɗan daga sansanin don samun nasarar yaƙi da cututtuka da ƙarfafa mutanen da suka raunana. Nan da nan Amurkawa sun gane cewa sun yi wani abu na zinariya ta hanyar kawo Hekking.

Likitan sansanin Yaren mutanen Holland, wanda nan da nan aka yi masa lakabi da 'Jungle Doctor' ya zama mai hazaka, ƙware a cikin haɓakawa da haɓakawa. Tare da kaifi cokali mai haƙuri - ba tare da maganin sa barci ba - an cire ƙumburi na wurare masu zafi, an tattara lemun tsami a hankali a cikin kwalba don yin amfani da shi a lokacin da ya dace kuma an dafa shi akai-akai don zama bandeji. Lokaci-lokaci, Hekking ma ya sami nasarar satar magani daga kayan abinci na Japan, cikin haɗarin kashe shi idan an kama shi. A cikin wannan yanayi, kada a manta cewa likitocin da ke sansanin kwadago, kamar sauran fursunonin yaki, ba a kebe su daga ayyukan yin ayyukansu ba. Ma’ana, kamar sauran ‘yan uwansu da ke fama da ciwon, dole ne su shiga kowace rana a aikin gina layin dogo na kasar Thailand da Burma. Yin aikin likita ya yiwu ne kawai a cikin 'lokacin hutu' bayan lokutan aiki. Aikin da Doc Hekking ya kammala cikin nasara, godiya ga babban gwaninta da iliminsa. Yayin da a wasu sansanonin fursunonin ke mutuwa kamar kuda, daga cikin mazaje kusan 700 da ke ƙarƙashin alhakinsa, jimillar mutane 13 ne suka mutu. Babu ɗaya daga cikin waɗannan fursunonin Amurka da aka yanke jiki a lokacin da Hekking ke zaman likitan sansaninsu.

Hekking ya kasance gwarzo ga tsoffin sojojin Amurka. Tun daga 1956, lokacin da Ƙungiyar Masu tsira ta USS Houston CA-30 aka kafa, shi ne babban baƙon su a taron Dallas sau da yawa. A cikin Nuwamba 1983 an karrama shi a hukumance a cikin Majalisar Dokokin Amurka, House of Commons. A cikin hukuma US Rikodin Majalisa Otto Schwarz, daya daga cikin tsoffin majinyatan sa ya ce: “...Shi ba likita ba ne kawai. Ayyukansa na magani a ƙarƙashin yanayi mafi muni ba a iyakance ga ƙoƙarin warkar da jikin jiki ba; Hakanan ya fitar da ikonsa a matsayin masanin ilimin halayyar dan adam, don ko ta yaya bi da hankali, ruhi da ruhin waɗancan fursunonin yaƙi waɗanda ba su da wani dalili ko kuma ba su da wani kwarin gwiwa game da nan gaba…”. A cikin 1989 Dutch sun karɓi Likitan Jungle wasiƙar godiya ta sirri daga shugaban Amurka Ronald Reagan. Reserve Major Hekking har ma an ba shi matsayi na girmamawa na Vice Admiral na Texan Fleet, wani ɓangare na Rundunar 'yan kasuwa ta Amurka. Akalla litattafan Amurka guda biyar sun bayyana muhimmiyar rawar da ya taka a sansanonin kwadago. Gavan Daws ya bayyana a cikin Fursunonin Jafananci (1994) Doc Hekking kamar yadda "mai kula da hankali da jiki”.

Duk da haka, Doctor Hekking ba mutumin kirki ba ne a ƙasarsa. A cikin bayan yakin Netherlands, cike da hankali, za ku iya - alamar kasa "kawai yi al'ada "Mai hankali - amma zai fi kyau kada ku manne kan ku sama da fakitin. Baya ga ƴan labaran jaridu da ambaton ɗaya a cikin daidaitaccen aikin Ma'aikata a Titin Railway na Burma van Leffelaar da Van Witsen daga 1985, babu wata alama ta wannan fiye da cancantar likita a cikin tarihin yakin Dutch. Kuma ba wai shi kadai ne likitan yaki da ya samu wannan magani na uwa ba. Likitoci goma da suka yi aiki a KNIL an zaɓi su don ribbon a cikin Order of Orange-Nassau don ayyukansu na musamman a lokacin yaƙin. A ƙarshe, ɗaya daga cikinsu, wato Henri Hekking, za a yi masa ado da gaske, bisa ga shaidar abokinsa kuma abokin aikinsa A. Borstlap, wanda ya kasance a sansanin Celebes, wannan ya faru "saboda ba su da wani zabi domin Amurkawa sun riga sun ba shi lambar yabo...”

A cikin wata hira da aka yi a ranar 11 ga Nuwamba, 1995 in Mai gaskiya Ya bayyana, 'yarsa ta ce da wuya mahaifinta ya yi magana game da shekarun sansaninsa a gida "Sai idan akwai dalilin yin haka. Sannan koyaushe kuna jin labarai masu launuka iri-iri, masu ban dariya, amma kuma masu inganci, ba ainihin bakin ciki ba. Ya gaya ma manyan maki, ya tsallake ƙananan maki. Ya gwammace kada yayi magana akan hakan...Doc Hekking ya mutu a Hague a ranar 28 ga Janairu, 1994, makonni biyu kacal kafin cikarsa shekaru 91.^e ranar haihuwa. Ya tsira daga jahannama na layin dogo na Thai-Burma na kusan rabin karni ...