Urgent need for rural doctors
By Yang Wanli and Wang Yan | China Daily | Updated: 2009-11-23 07:54
About 60 percent of new medical clinics in Tongzhou district have closed because of a lack of medical staff, a new report shows.
The report on rural medical construction work was presented to a meeting of the standing committee of the city's people's congress on Thursday.
The report found that 67 of the 111 clinics that opened in 2008 had stopped operating.
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