Children paying price for shortage of doctors

Target set to ensure one pediatrician for every 1,450 children by 2020

"There are so many people and so few doctors," said Chen Yang as he sat in a waiting room at Beijing Children's Hospital late last month.

He had rushed his 6-month-old nephew to hospital early in the afternoon after noticing the child had suddenly developed a severe cough, and at 10 pm, he was still waiting for the result of a chest X-ray.