Rural doctor representative Ma Yuhua speaks at the meeting

Original title: Representative Ma Yuhua: Building a professional rural doctor workforce is urgently needed to strengthen the "net bottom" of rural healthcare

On March 7, Ma Yuhua, a deputy to the National People's Congress, spoke during the deliberation of the Ningxia delegation.

Rural doctors are the "net bottom" of the three-tier healthcare service network at the county, township and village levels, and are the health "guardians" closest to hundreds of millions of rural residents. However, problems such as the low management mechanism and service level of the rural doctor group itself, the imbalance between supply and demand, and the uneven development between regions are becoming increasingly prominent. Ma Yuhua, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a village doctor in Luojiahewan Village, Wangtuan Town, Tongxin County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, believes that building a professional rural doctor workforce is urgently needed to strengthen the "net bottom" of rural healthcare.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Peng, photo

Ma Yuhua makes a house call to diagnose and treat an elderly person in Luojiahewan Village, Wangtuan Town, Tongxin County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (photo taken on February 28, 2015).