Internet helps channel medical resources from city to rural areas

Doctor Huang Hongji has been running the health rooms in Dalang village in northern Guangdong province since he graduated from a local health school in 1993.

The 47-year-old didn't get a doctor's qualification until 1999, and could only handle minor illnesses such as colds and coughs. For more serious illnesses, villagers had to seek medical expertise from the urban area about 10 kilometers away. Some even had to travel to Guangzhou, the provincial capital.

That began to change after Guangzhou-based Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital launched a program in 2015 to help connect rural residents with urban medical resources through the internet.