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China's Barefoot Doctors
How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare.
In March 1968, Chairman Mao officially launched a scheme to improve healthcare in rural China, by giving thousands of people basic medical training and sending them out to work in villages. They were known as the 鈥渂arefoot doctors鈥�.
Gordon Liu is a Professor of Economics at Peking University. He tells Lucy Burns about his memories of working as a barefoot doctor.
Picture: Gordon Liu
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