Chapter 1007 - The Current State of Healthcare Is Worrying (2/2)

“Do people in the hospital start working?” Asked Fang Qiu.

The young nurse said timidly, “They’re already at work. Your consulting room is ready, but the director asked me not to disturb you. He said that you had been working for a day and a night, so he wants you to rest for a while.”

“It’s okay. I’ve already got enough rest.” Fang Qiu smiled slightly and said, “Let’s go.”

After saying that, Fang Qiu returned to the consulting room and continued to see patients.

When he was back in the consulting room, Fang Qiu found that this Chinese Medicine Hospital was already packed with people unknowingly.

When Director Lin spread the news that Fang Qiu was going to see patients in the Chinese Medicine Hospital for two days, it suddenly caused a sensation in this third-tier city.

Everyone heard of Fang Qiu.

However, no one expected that Fang Qiu would come to Lin Zhai.

Now, as soon as people heard the news, countless people rushed to the Chinese Medicine Hospital in the first place.

In the hospital, Fang Qiu also officially started doing consultations.

The first patient was the patient who got serious flu, who was mentioned on the news.

After examining the patient, Fang Qiu found that it was not as serious as he thought. It was merely a simple seasonal flu, so he immediately prescribed some medicine for the patient.

Then, he saw more than ten patients in a row, all of whom suffered from seasonal flu.

When he discovered this situation, Fang Qiu directly wrote down a prescription that was specifically used to treat seasonal flu and asked the nurse to give it to the director so as to ask him to publicize it.

After receiving the prescription, the director was overjoyed and immediately began to publicize it.

Fang Qiu sighed with emotion in his heart.

“How can a simple small disease develop into flu? The medical and health conditions here are really insufficient. There are so many doctors in big cities, but few doctors want to come to the small city.”

The more Fang Qiu thought about it, the more he wanted to sigh.

While Fang Qiu was seeing patients, the director quickly spread the prescription given by him. Although people didn’t know who wrote this prescription, those who tried it felt that it was particularly effective. Hence, people tried to cure the flu according to this prescription.

Of course, everyone was silently thanking the people who gave out the prescription.

In the consulting room, Fang Qiu kept seeing patients for two days consecutively. After he finished seeing all the patients, another group of patients with serious diseases came. It took him another day to see all the patients with serious diseases.

Seeing the second group of patients with serious diseases, Fang Qiu felt heartbroken.

It was the same as three days ago.

He found that numerous patients got serious diseases because they didn’t get the treatment on time. Originally, their diseases didn’t have to become so severe.

After seeing all the patients, Fang Qiu returned to the private room to have a rest and found that the investigation report he asked for had already been sent by Li Ji a day ago. He immediately checked his email and read the report carefully.

“According to Statistical Bulletin on the Development of Health Undertakings of our country, there is a total of 6.203 million health professionals in the country by the end of last year.

“Among them, people working in hospitals at all levels account for 3.706 million of the number while there are less than 2 million people working in community health service stations and town clinics. There are only about 20,000 hospitals in the whole country, but the total number of community health service stations and town clinics exceeds 70,000.

“The data also shows that there is a shortage of medical staff in the community and town clinics. What’s more urgent is that there is a shortage of general practitioners in the countryside.”

Fang Qiu knew that the general practitioners here referred to the doctors that could deal with common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases, and general emergency cases in the outpatient clinics. This kind of doctor was extremely important to patients in the countryside.

“According to the ideal ratio, there should at least be 600,000 general practitioners in the country. But there are only 78,000 in our country. And these people’s medical skills are worrying!”

Fang Qiu fell silent after reading the investigation report.

He didn’t expect that there was actually such a huge gap!

There was a lack of 600, 000 general practitioners.

It seemed that apart from Lin Zhai, there were many other places in the country that was as miserable as Lin Zhai.

As he was constantly thinking about it, Fang Qiu frowned more deeply.

As he was pondering, Fang Qiu took out his phone and called Chen Yinsheng.

“Hello?” When the phone was connected, Chen Yinsheng’s voice came.

“Vice President,” Fang Qiu called him respectfully and then said, “are there any statistics about the employment condition of graduates of major TCM colleges in our school?”

Chen Yinsheng asked, “The Ministry of Education will collect the information every year. Do you want these statistics?”

He knew that Fang Qiu must want to do something good with the data, so he didn’t ask for the reason why he needed it.

“Yes, if possible, please send a copy to me,” said Fang Qiu.

“Okay, I’ll find it for you now. I’ll send it to you in five minutes,” Chen Yinsheng answered and hung up the phone.