#为什么过去的农民看病, they all believe that "Barefoot Doctor" is a specific term of the era and a great innovation of an era, although today it has been dusted in history, but the birth of "Barefoot Doctor" and the significance of the times are undoubtedly a worthy chapter in Chinese history.
The background of the era in which "barefoot doctors" arose probably dates back to the 1960s and 1970s, when China's vast rural farmers lacked medical treatment and medicine, and could not cure diseases without money, and the focus of medical and health care at that time was still in the cities.
Listening to the elderly old man, at that time, some people in society described the hospital as an old hospital, which means a hospital for the rich, in view of this phenomenon, Chairman Mao seems to have specifically sought out the leadership of the Ministry of Health at that time and made instructions, and later in order to solve the problem of the lack of medical treatment and medicine for the vast number of rural farmers, he began to send some rural young people who aspired to practice medicine to the hospital of medical colleges and universities through short-term training, there were three or five months, and there were also more than one year, through short-term training and mastered a skill. Have primary health knowledge and can be more skilled in the treatment of common diseases in rural areas such a group of people return to the countryside to engage in medical and health work, and the vast majority of people are really not out of work of rural doctors, that is, they are still farmers, barefoot on the ground, carrying a medicine box, who has a headache fever, on call, medical fees are cheap, often open a prescription, a day or two of medical expenses is also a dime a few cents, change to today can not think of.
In that era, the peasants trusted the barefoot doctor, in the final analysis, it was not how capable the barefoot doctor was, how high the medical skills were, but because the countryside was really short of medical treatment, the peasants were really poor, three meals a day had not yet been relieved, there was really no money to go to the hospital for medical treatment when they were sick, and the emergence of barefoot doctors made the peasants have on-call doctors around them, not only good service and cheap fees, but more importantly, barefoot doctors really wholeheartedly serve patients, and rural farmers' common diseases and health and epidemic prevention are solved by barefoot doctors not leaving the village How can the vast number of rural peasants have no reason to distrust them?
In this way, the achievements of thousands of barefoot doctors who often grasped the primary medical and health knowledge, yiyi and nong, really solved the problem of lack of medical care and medicine to a large extent for the vast number of rural farmers at that time, and achieved great pioneering achievements.
The term "barefoot doctor" officially disappeared from 1985, and some barefoot doctors who were not in the compilation became rural doctors through the relevant examinations of the health department.
