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Barefoot doctor 2.0: Making it happen

By Claudia Tan, Joseph Mocanu and Jeremy Lim. Posted August 6, 2020

Over 50 years ago, a pioneering medical system was launched in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Known as the “barefoot doctors” scheme, the program liberalized healthcare beyond doctors and allowed some 1.5 million community health workers to practice basic medicine after 3–6 months of training. This effectively created a national network of healthcare services for the very first time, increasing rural healthcare coverage to 90%.

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