GUEST COLUMN
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February 2010
Meet Our Featured Guest Columnist:
Ying Lowrey
Ying Lowrey served as a barefoot doctor as a teenager in China and Tibet. Although the system is no longer used there, she remembers it as an innovative and effective way to provide poor families with basic health care.
Q: How/why did you become a barefoot doctor?
A: It's a very typical Chinese thing; they have some village, they give something like this: one village kid gets some education, gets some training, they provide a service over there. And then people just find out that's very useful, and then especially when the government finds out this kind of service is very beneficial for the people, so they just quickly spread out over the country... In general probably each village had one barefoot doctor.
A: It's a very typical Chinese thing; they have some village, they give something like this: one village kid gets some education, gets some training, they provide a service over there. And then people just find out that's very useful, and then especially when the government finds out this kind of service is very beneficial for the people, so they just quickly spread out over the country... In general probably each village had one barefoot doctor.