At that time, every village had barefoot doctors. In primary school, the good aunt of the barefoot doctor in the book came in the rain and went to see a doctor at home. At that time, barefoot doctors were omnipotent doctors. When they were a little sick, they went to the commune health clinic. It's strange that there is no strange disease. Consulting fees were not expensive at that time. A cold is only five cents, and injections are all penicillin. I don't know. Anyway, everyone can't afford to see a doctor.
In the 1960s and 1970s, "rural cooperative medical care" appeared in rural areas. Join the cooperative medical service organization, each person pays a few dollars and issues a "cooperative medical certificate". If a member has a cold and fever, he can go to the cooperative medical station of the brigade with a certificate. The consultation fee is 5 cents and the medicine fee can be reduced by 20%. It takes 23 yuan to treat a common cold, and a barefoot doctor only needs to prescribe three small bags of medicine for you. You pay 5 cents for dressing the wound, 5 cents for an injection and 5 cents for needles and medicine. Older diseases were introduced to community hospitals. Our community hospital also has an inpatient department. Generally, serious illness relief will go to the town hospital for surgery or rescue, and few people go to the county hospital to see a doctor. Barefoot doctors are members with medical foundation trained by county and town hospitals, and doctors in commune hospitals are doctors with medical information. Every summer, the brigade also organizes some members to collect Chinese herbal medicines in mountainous areas to enrich the use of drugs in medical stations. Barefoot doctors and Chinese medicine practitioners only record the working place or a small part of subsidy funds.
Member medical teams have cooperative medical care, and each town has a health center. If you have a cold, or a small wound, or need an injection after seeing a doctor in the hospital, you can find a barefoot doctor of cooperative medical care. Because barefoot doctors have never seen a doctor, they are trained for a month or two at most, and most of them are untrained. More complicated diseases were sent to town hospitals, and more serious diseases were sent to county people's hospitals. At that time, traffic jams were inconvenient, and serious illnesses generally left them to fend for themselves. No matter what level of medical care and medicine, it costs money, and there is no free lunch!
In 1970s, my mother and I were sent to work in Baxin County, Yunnan Province. I remember all the members joined the "cooperative medical care", and each person paid the fee of "My children don't know how much to pay" once a year. Later, I fell ill and went to the commune health center, paying a five-point registration fee.
At that time, every production brigade had clinics and barefoot doctors. All employees participate in cooperative medical care, and it is free to see a doctor. If you have a cold, fever, minor work injury, etc. You can solve it if you can't leave the village. Doctors can diagnose diseases, take medicines, prescribe medicines and infuse fluids. In addition to difficult and serious diseases, fewer people go to commune hospitals and county towns to see a doctor.
There are barefoot doctors or local doctors in the village. They see a doctor for free and are on call, but they have to pay for injections and medicines.
In our country, when you are sick, you get an injection in the cooperative medical system to collect some money symbolically. Fifty cents of Chinese medicine is a bit of a hard subsidy for people who take medicine in mountainous areas. The minor illness medical station can handle it. The most serious illness goes to the nearest district hospital, to the county hospital, and goes out to see a doctor at his own expense. At that time, the doctors were all in good health, so I suggest you not to check and prescribe drugs indiscriminately because of the poor family economic conditions of patients. Very compassionate, and formed the idea of serving the people in the whole society.
There are no barefoot doctors in thirty or forty households in the production team, and there are three or four barefoot doctors in the medical station in the brigade. Chinese medicine is given priority to, supplemented by western medicine, and acupuncture and Chinese medicine are often used to treat diseases. There are not many western medicines, but most of them are xanthamine, painkillers, analgin, aspirin, bezoar, Yinqiao tablets and so on. Although the doctor's level is not high, Miao Honggen's true purpose of serving the people can be seen at fifty cents.
When producing a team, each team generally has a medical station, barefoot doctors and local doctors (that is, begging for soil). There didn't seem to be so many patients at that time. Eat well, if you eat too much, you will get sick.