Historically, healthcare in Lianjiang was backward, with traditional Chinese herbal medicine used to treat illnesses. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the introduction of Western medicine, poorly equipped, slow development, to the Republic of China in 38 years, there are only four county and township hospitals and some private clinics, 20 beds, Chinese and Western doctors 254 people. Urban and rural areas generally lack of medicine, plague epidemic, coupled with opium poisoning, people's physical quality is extremely low, the average life expectancy of 35 years. After the founding of New China, the patriotic health campaign, urban and rural successively set up medical, epidemic prevention, health care institutions, and gradually formed the county, township, village medical and health network, constantly updated equipment, improve sanitation, improve medical technology. 1952 eradicated the bubonic plague, smallpox, cholera, and other malignant infectious diseases, and in the 60's to 80's, basically eliminated polio, filariasis, trichinosis, malaria and other epidemic diseases, the people's health level improved significantly, and in the 80's, the people's health level improved significantly, and in the 80's, the people's health level improved significantly. The health level of the people improved significantly, in the 1980s, the county's average life expectancy reached 68.76 years. 90's implementation of the primary health care plan for everyone, strengthen the rural health organizations, expanding the management of rural maternal and child system. By 1995, the county had 28 health care institutions, 224 village health centers, 554 beds, 1338 professional health care personnel.