Training fails to produce pediatricians

BEIJING - The growth in the number of pediatricians in China has remained stagnant in recent years, and experts have blamed the training system for medical staff.

China's pediatricians are among the practitioners that are in the shortest supply in the country's health system.

According to the latest statistics, by 2008 the country had 61,700 pediatricians for 230 million children under the age of 14, according to Zhu Zonghan, head of the pediatric division of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association.