Rural "barefoot doctors" need immediate management

In recent years, responsible for the majority of farmers as a direct medical care, prevention and care tasks of rural doctors, although the convenience of the peasant masses in the process of medical treatment play an irreplaceable role. However, village doctors themselves exist "congenitally deficient" problem, in medicine, diagnosis, treatment, etc. There are some phenomena can not be ignored.

Following main features: the low level of operations, theoretical knowledge and clinical practice of less experienced. According to the survey, rural doctors have a formal secondary education and only 3.6%, the vast majority of home-grown "barefoot doctors", usually only look at Toutengnaore of common diseases, injection and infusion is relatively good at the "housekeeping skills" , while the diagnosis and treatment of some infectious diseases and epidemics technical knowledge of the small, multi-doctor rule of thumb, a doctor prescribed the wrong medicine, wrong needle, adversely affected by the disease do occur frequently, and even endanger the health of the peasant masses; awareness of laws and not strong, poor work ethic. The pursuit of a number of village doctors for the purpose of operating profits, often through a multi-needle hanging a few days, try to open your medicine, so that the medicine does not work in patients with multi-purpose in order to obtain improper benefits; unlicensed practice more. Because mostly barefoot doctors, more than the common people of some clinical experience is mainly limited to economic conditions, inadequate to cope with colds and other small holding just a small pain, mental illness, most village doctors are not on the subjective awareness to enrich themselves to raise the level of desire to obtain the medical register, resulting in rural areas, especially in remote places, practicing medicine without a license is more common, medical malpractice often have.

"Human life", people's livelihood and the non-trivial. At this point, the author calls for the authorities to strengthen rural "barefoot doctors" management. First, the standard practice to crack down on illegal clinics, clean practice environment. Secondly, to strengthen rural "barefoot doctors" medical skills training, county, township and village doctors to the hospital to cope with existing plans to implement the training or orientation for the urban hospitals to rural medical guidance, assistance, so that in practice to enhance their professional skills and effectively assume the prevention of disease, protect the public health responsibility, for farmers to contribute to the health of the masses.

(Author: Huang Shan Xihua County of Henan Province)