Mending medical care on the ground
A girl, accompanied by a healthcare worker, enters a rural cooperative clinic in Linxia, Gansu province, on Nov 11. Cao Zhizheng |
When 45-year-old Wang Xiuzhi fractured her knees working in the fields, she was faced with the daunting option of traveling at least three hours by bus to hospitals in the city. Treatment there was guaranteed to be expensive for farmers like her.
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