First, the court's charity clinic and medicine, during the Song Dynasty, the court often dispatched doctors and physicians to make regular visits to the people, and distributed fre

First, the court's charity clinic and medicine, during the Song Dynasty, the court often dispatched doctors and physicians to make regular visits to the people, and distributed free medicines. According to historical records, in the Northern Song Dynasty, during the Jiayou period, the court allocated money to the subordinate states and counties every year, specifically for the purchase of medicines, and then distributed to the poor people who could not afford to buy medicines; and in the Southern Song Dynasty, during the Shaoxing period, the court sent four medical officers in the height of the summer outside the city of Lin'an to attend clinics and prescribe medicines, and in the meantime, the Household Ministry and the Bureau of Pharmaceuticals will be coordinated with the medical officer to see the clinic, and will not stop dispatching them until the autumn when it is cooler.

Secondly, the opening of Pharmacy Bureaus, the Song Dynasty's pharmacy bureaus were roughly equivalent to today's low-cost pharmacies, and were located in the capital city and other counties, such as the Jiankang Huimin Pharmacy Bureau and the Lin'an Shiyi Pharmacy Bureau, and so on. At that time, the medicine bureau for people to see and dispense medicine to take medicine, are only charge cost price, the people at that time, once sick all go to the medicine bureau to see a doctor, each time to diagnose the pulse to take medicine before going back. Therefore, every year, the Ministry of Revenue had to subsidize the medicine bureaus with hundreds of thousands of kan, for example, the Ministry of Revenue had to allocate hundreds of thousands of kan to the medicine bureaus in the capital. In addition to this, the pharmacy also opens its doors to poor people and gives them medicine.

Thirdly, the establishment of free hospitals, Su Shi set up the Anle Square in Hangzhou during the Yuan-You period of the Northern Song Dynasty,? to treat more than 1,000 people in three years? , and then An Le Fang was renamed An Ji Fang. The court ordered that all roads be set up Anji Fang, at the time of the Song Dynasty, but all of the thousands of cities and fortresses will have Anji Fang, all the sick widowers and widows without dependents, can go to the Anji Fang, which will be placed and diagnosed and cured. The Anji Fang is equipped with professional medical personnel, once a year, patients can get free medical treatment and care here, serious patients will be isolated to prevent contagion.

In addition, the Song Dynasty also had Anle Lodge, in which medical resources were provided exclusively to the floating population, so that if a traveler became ill on the way, and was unable to return home, and had nowhere to go without medical care and medication, he or she could go to the Anle Lodge. However, many of the free medical policies of the Song Dynasty were aimed at the poor, of course, not only in terms of medical care, but also in terms of living, the poor can enjoy priority relief.