United Nations declared Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. Since then, village doctors have kept on playing an irreplaceable role in China’s rural health, even though the number of village doctors has fluctuated over the years and they face serious challenges. ![]() China’s Ministry of Health stopped using the term of barefoot doctor in 1985, and changed policy to develop village doctors. Since 1968, China has trained about 1.5 million barefoot doctors in a few years’ time to provide basic health services to 0.8 billion rural population.
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