Chapter 1008 - Fang Qiu Will Give a Lecture (1/2)

Five minutes later, there was a sound of the email notification.

Fang Qiu logged into his email with his cell phone and tapped on the new email to have a look.

It was the data sent by Chen Yinsheng. He immediately tapped on it and read.

After he read it, Fang Qiu’s brows furrowed even more deeply.

“According to the investigation report, various medical colleges in our country recruit about 600,000 medical students every year, but only 100,000 people can eventually become doctors. The number of talent loss has reached 500,000, which accounts for 84%. And among them, the admission ratio of Chinese Medicine students is very small. The ratio of becoming doctors is even smaller, only one-tenth.”

As he saw this, Fang Qiu’s heart skipped a beat.

500,000 people were lost among 600,000. Among the remaining 100,000 people, the students who chose western medicine needed to be deducted. The rest of them also needed to be selected through exams. In the end, only one-tenth of them were left.

These people were not one-tenth of the 100,000 people. Instead, it was one-tenth of the remaining people after he deducted those who chose Western Medicine, the people who weren’t admitted to colleges, and people who failed to finish college among the 100,000 people.

Fang Qiu didn’t even dare to calculate carefully because he knew that if he were to calculate it according to this figure, the final result would certainly shock him!

He took a deep breath and continued to read.

“According to the report, there is a shortage of rural doctors all over the country now. Even though there are more people studying medicine, it’s still hard to retain talents in grass-roots health institutions. Nowadays, undergraduate colleges basically don’t cultivate rural doctors for the countryside. In addition, people nowadays are used to city life and are reluctant to go to the countryside. There are also problems such as salary, treatment and so on. As a result, there are fewer and fewer rural doctors, but there are more and more urban doctors.

“The School of Health Humanity of Bekin University conducted a survey on the employment preference of the 380 medical undergraduate students. The final result showed that 80% of the medical students hoped to stay in the big city, and less than 20% of them were willing to go to the grassroots.

“Before this, there are still college students in some county or town clinics when the government guaranteed the job assignment of graduates in the past. Now most of them had left or were about to retire, but the follow-up medical practitioners couldn’t keep up.

“There are very few top talents among the medical students, and a large number of them go abroad in recent years. There are even fewer people who are willing to go to the west regions or the grassroots. In the future, how can people living in the countryside see a doctor?”

This data was a dialogue in a reporter’s interview with a higher-up of the Ministry of Education.

After reading it, Fang Qiu was completely silent.

On the one hand, remote villages were in urgent need of doctors.

On the other hand, there were very few doctors due to the talent loss.

Moreover, doctors nowadays were unwilling to go to the countryside and hoped to stay in the city.

Under such circumstances, it formed an unhealthy ecological environment.

Because of the loss of talents, there were more and more places that lacked doctors. And it was rather difficult to develop such places without doctors. Besides, doctors were reluctant to work in these places.

These three problems opposed each other, making the whole thing come to a dead end.

Of course, the best solution was to develop the remote mountainous areas.

However, it was not easy to do so. It would take at least a decade or two to build a city, and it would take several years to draw people to the city after construction. Besides, this was a remote mountain area. Even the roads here were loess mountain roads, not to mention building a city. It would take so much time to make other constructions.

The government was also vigorously supervising and urging people to help and develop the remote mountainous area, but it would take too long. What Fang Qiu saw now was a big problem that needed to be solved immediately.

Fang Qiu wanted to solve this problem.

But how should he solve it?

There was a knock at the door.

Just as Fang Qiu was thinking with a frown, Director Lin knocked on the door and came in.

“Director Lin.” Fang Qiu stood up to greet him.

Director Lin asked, “Doctor Fang, did I disturb your rest?”

“No,” Fang Qiu answered with a smile.

“Okay.” Director Lin smiled, then rubbed his hands and said, “Well, in order to thank you for your help to our hospital and the patients in the past few days, I want to treat you to a good meal to express my gratitude.”

“No need,” Fang Qiu immediately shook his head and said, “I still have something urgent to deal with, and I’ve already booked the flight ticket. There are less than 30 minutes left before I board the plane. I was about to say goodbye to you. Then you came.”

“So soon?” Director Lin was stunned and said, “Anyway, you need to have a meal before you leave. You have helped us so much when you’re in Lin Zhai these days. I’ll feel bad if I can’t treat you well.”

“Director Lin, we are all Chinese Medicine practitioners,” Fang Qiu said with a smile, “This is what we should do. There’s no need to thank me.”

Seeing that Fang Qiu was determined not to eat this meal, Director Lin held Fang Qiu and wanted to send him some local specialties, but Fang Qiu declined.

Helplessly, Director Lin could only drive Fang Qiu to the airport in person. He didn’t turn around and leave until Fang Qiu’s plane took off.

On the plane, Fang Qiu had been worrying and thinking about how to solve the problem that there was a lack of doctors in rural areas.

But after thinking about it during the whole trip, he couldn’t come up with any good ideas.

He then came back to the office of the cultivation base in Beijiang.

“You’re here?” When he saw He Xue in the office, Fang Qiu’s eyes immediately lit up and he said, “I have a question. Could you help me think if there is any solution to it?”

“What is it?” He Xue asked curiously.

Fang Qiu said, “I went to Lin Zhai in Guizhou province this time. That’s a remote mountain area. The city is not big, and all kinds of conditions there are miserable. It’s very troublesome for the people in the countryside to even go to the city to see a doctor. Because there is a lack of doctors in the village, many minor diseases have turned into serious diseases because patients don’t get treatment in time. The problem now is that the loss of medical talents is huge. There are very few doctors willing to go to the countryside. Without doctors there, the rural areas can’t develop, which causes people’s minor diseases to turn into serious diseases in the remote mountain area. From your point of view, is there any way to solve this problem?”