Between the 1949 Communist revolution and transition to a market economy in the 1990's China made big strides in bringing health care to the rural areas. The government hastily trained medics, known as barefoot doctors, to provide basic care to peasants.
In the past two decades, however, the government has closed public health care facilities and the rural poor have been faced with high fees for what little care is available to them.
The government spends eighty percent of its health budget on the cities, leaving only twenty percent for rural areas where most of China's people live.
Jim Murray works with Plan International, of-->a children'sof Africa sea-->advocacy group based in Britain which has operated in China since 1995. He said-->says good quality health services are not accessible to rural residents.
"At the village level, as many of you know, that in the 1960s and 70s, the haired-->heralded barefoot doctors. Well, their sons and grandsons today are still there, yet they don't have the same degree with-->of effectiveness, we found-->find, that their fathers and grandfathers have."
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