Extra training for rural medical staff

BEIJING - Gynecologist Lu Li, who works for the Qinghai Women and Children Healthcare Hospital in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, and six other doctors from big hospitals in Xining were recently sent to Beijing for a two-day training program to study checkup skills for cervical cancer.

They will then pass on what they learned to 30 or more rural doctors back in Qinghai.

The training program is held by the Ministry of Health as part of a three-year project for the mass scanning and treatment of rural women's common illness that was put in place in 2009 at the beginning of large-scale medical reforms. More than 150 doctors were assigned to study in Beijing with the help of the country's top gynecology experts.