First of all, let me explain to you what a barefoot doctor is. The so-called barefoot doctor is an informal medical worker in rural areas. It is a term that began to appear in the middle of the Cultural Revolution in the 196s and 197s. It means that there is no fixed establishment. Generally, medical staff with certain medical knowledge and ability are approved and assigned in rural areas or grass-roots governments, and then they are directly led and guided by local township hospitals. Their characteristics are that they can do farm work when they are busy, and they are not busy. Or rural basic part-time medical personnel who work in agriculture during the day and send medicines to doctors at night.
At that time, barefoot doctors mainly came from three parts, one was a medical family, the other was a student who had received short-term training in medical and nursing specialty, and the third was a self-taught person who was recognized as having certain medical and nursing ability. At the beginning, the appearance of barefoot doctors solved or alleviated the problem of lack of medical care and medicine in the vast rural areas of China, and made great contributions to popularizing patriotic health knowledge in the vast rural areas, eliminating the four pests and eradicating schistosomiasis.
As an important part of China's medical and health service team, barefoot doctors in rural areas are rare nowadays. After all, nowadays, the country's medical technology is getting better and better, and the medical equipment is becoming more and more advanced. In some places, the service of family contracted doctors has been introduced. Once they have signed a contract with a doctor, they can consult with the doctor online at any time if they have any needs. If they have symptoms, they can also learn about the situation from them. For these contracted doctors, they will also come to check the health of farmers from time to time, which greatly improves everyone's living standard.
So barefoot doctors have gradually withdrawn from the stage of history. Of course, barefoot doctors may still exist in many remote areas nowadays, but with the development of technology in the future, I believe they will gradually withdraw.