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A
doctor in the Maternity and Child Care Department at the Beijing
Children's Hospital is demonstrating to parents how to use a round
diagnosis plate for infant's diarrhea and pneumonia.
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The Establishment of the Rural Health Service Network
Of China’s 1.2 billion
population, 900 million people live in the rural areas. The Chinese
government has constantly paid great attention to rural medical and
health work. Especially since the reform and opening started in 1978,
further developing rural medical and health work to enable rural people
to enjoy basic medical health care is one of the goals of China’s
medical and health departments. Currently counties, townships, and
villages are covered by a medical and health network. In 1998, China
had 2,037 county-level hospitals, 50,600 township-level hospitals
and 728,800 village clinics. About 89.51 percent of the country’s
730,000 villages have clinics. There were also 1.3276 million village
doctors and paramedics, among whom 74.59 percent were doctors. A good
foundation has been laid for realizing the World Health Organization’s
goal of universal health care in China by the year 2000. |
