Female soldiers help out in quake-hit Taiping

Wang Hongmei, deputy director of the nursing department of the General Hospital of the PLA Chengdu Military Region poses with 10-year-old Wang Tao and 5-year-old Wang Leimei.

Wang Hongmei talks with a patient about her health.

Four female soldiers from a military hospital helped hundreds of quake victims in Taiping township, Lushan county of Southwest China's Sichuan province, after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Lushan on April 20.

Wang Hongmei gave special care to a brother and sister every day.

The 10-year-old Wang Tao and 5-year-old Wang Leimei lost their mother last year. Their house was torn down by the Lushan earthquake, and Wang Tao was burned by boiling water on his right leg while escaping the quake.

Apart from regular nursing work, Wang brought the brother and sister meals every day and clean water on time, even offering candy sometimes.

She spent her time chatting with the kids, comforting them, and encouraging them to face the difficulties and hardships bravely.

Wang, deputy director of the nursing department of the General Hospital of the PLA Chengdu Military Region, was regarded by the kids as their mother.

"The house can be rebuilt and the leg can heal. What the kids need most is tender care from a mother," she said.

"The most beautiful head nurse," is a compliment given to Sun Jin by medical team leader Yao Rong after Sun delivered the first "quake baby" in Taiping on April 23.

Sun, head nurse of the gynecology and obstetrics department, was visiting villagers when she received the order to return. She ran back to the medical center in town, discovering that a pregnant woman was about to give birth.

Sun had to deliver the baby at the temporary medical center without obstetrical equipment as there was no time to send the woman to a hospital.