Barefoot: informal doctors in the countryside who are not included in the state establishment. To put it plainly, the villagers called those barefoot doctors who went down to the fields to work as barefoot doctors.
Period: a term that began to appear in the midst of the Cultural Revolution in the 60s and 70s of the last century, referring to the absence of a fixed establishment, generally approved by the village or grass-roots government and assigned by the medical staff with certain medical knowledge and ability, under the direct leadership of the local township health center and medical guidance.
Characteristics: they are also farmers and doctors, working in agriculture during busy times and practicing medicine during idle times, or part-time rural grass-roots medical personnel working in agriculture during the day and delivering medicine at night.
Source: First, the medical family; second, the short-term training of medical and nursing students; third, self-taught people who are recognized as having a certain degree of medical and nursing ability. The emergence of barefoot doctors has solved or alleviated the problem of lack of medical care and medicines in the vast rural areas of China, and they have made great contributions to the popularization of patriotic knowledge of hygiene, the elimination of the "Four Pests", and the eradication of blood-sucking insect diseases in the vast rural areas.
Expanded information:
"Barefoot doctors" contribution:
1, the model even though it is still relevant today. Even today, the model still has its practical significance, wash away the "barefoot doctors" of the historical marks and political color, digging out its value core, drawing on its universality and organizational model, the establishment of rural cooperative medical system that meets the interests of the farmers, for the "barefoot doctors" to give the new times This also coincides with the idea of building affordable hospitals, which the government is working on.
2. "Barefoot doctor" in the 21st century can be understood as a foreign health care practitioner, who provides the public with 24-hour, immediate and personalized medical services without queuing. In the case of common colds, coughs, and common injuries, the "barefoot doctor" can provide you with medical care within a few minutes.
Compared with the city's medical services, waiting for a bus, queuing up, paying a fee, and seeing a doctor in three minutes, the "barefoot doctor" system deserves to be seriously studied by today's health care reform authorities.
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People's Daily Online - Barefoot Doctors
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