A doctor who travels through two eras

Li Yujie quickly handed over the two red work permits in his hand, and County Chief Jin's pupils shrank.

Because the job titles on the work permits are all incredibly intimidating.

County Magistrate Jin's expression shifted between light and dark, but after a moment, he quickly suppressed his emotions and put on an exaggerated smile.
"So it was Commissioner Lin! Oh dear, Commissioner Lin is coming to inspect our Andu County. Why didn't you notify us earlier? Look at this misunderstanding."

"Lin Sanqi...that name sounds familiar...isn't he the director of the Capital Infectious Disease Hospital who invented anti-tuberculosis drugs?"

In fact, Lin Sanqi is still concurrently the head of the newly established Bao'an Special Economic Zone. He will step down from his position as deputy commissioner of Fushan after the New Year, otherwise the world will be in chaos.

There is no precedent for this, so who will lead whom in the future?

So the higher authorities simply established the Bao'an Special Zone on a temporary basis, with an area of ​​more than 1,000 square kilometers, which was the original Bao'an County.

Although nominally under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, Bao'an Special Economic Zone is actually directly responsible to Beijing.

However, due to various special reasons, Bao'an Special Economic Zone does not promote itself and it is not seen in domestic newspapers at all. In theory, it still appears under the name of Bao'an County.

Therefore, Lin Sanqi's position is not publicly disclosed.

Of course, this was all part of Lin Sanqi's plan. The wind was about to blow, and he wanted to hide Bao'an County as much as possible to avoid being targeted.

It is also to leave a spark for this country that has suffered many disasters.

Upon hearing County Magistrate Jin's question, Lin Sanqi smiled and replied:

"Yes, I used to be the director of the Capital Infectious Disease Hospital. Now County Chief Jin believes me, right?"

County Chief Jin rubbed his hands together excitedly and said:

"I believe it, I believe it, no need to verify it anymore, haha. By the way, Commissioner Lin, what brings you to Andu County this time?..."

Lin Sanqi had originally intended to come secretly to see the true state of grassroots healthcare, but now that he thought about it, it would be much easier with local cooperation, so he spoke up:

"The main thing is that there is a new policy this time, which will implement a rural doctor system nationwide, meaning that each village should have a village clinic, and if conditions permit, each commune should have a health center."

Currently, Dongguang and Xiguang provinces have become my designated areas for piloting the barefoot doctor program nationwide. It just so happens that several of my subordinates are from your Andu County, so I've decided to use Andu County as the pilot within the pilot program.

Upon hearing this, County Chief Jin frowned.
"Commissioner Lin, are you saying that every village needs to be equipped with a doctor? This... this seems unrealistic."

Lin Sanqi also wanted to know what the grassroots cadres were thinking, so the two sat down at the dining table:
"County Chief Jin, why do you think it's impossible to have a doctor in every village? Tell me your thoughts."

County Chief Jin organized his thoughts before speaking:

"Commissioner Lin, I don't know about other places, but in our Andu County, we are poor, extremely poor. First of all, we have no money. Not only does the government have no money, but the people have no money either."

As you can see, even our county town is dilapidated, basically still in the late Qing Dynasty architecture and layout. Our county government compound, for example, is still a landlord's house from before Liberation. We can't afford to build a new office building because we're poor.

So you're planning to build a new hospital in every village and every commune. Where will the funding come from?

We can do the math. There are currently 5 district offices and 25 communes in the county. As for villages, even if we don't count natural villages, there are 210 production brigades in the county.

I'm not entirely sure how much it costs to build a village clinic or a commune health center, but if I calculate based on a basic cost of 1,000 yuan per clinic and 10,000 yuan per health center, then it would require...it would require..."

Li Yujie chimed in from the side, "46."

"Yes, 46 yuan, but Commissioner Lin, do you know how much our Andu County's annual fiscal revenue is? It's only 4 yuan, which means our county would have to spend 11 years' worth of revenue to implement this barefoot doctor policy?"

It's unrealistic to shut down all industrial and agricultural projects in the county, withhold salaries from grassroots cadres, and use all the money to build this village clinic. It also wouldn't gain the support of grassroots cadres.

County Chief Kim's core idea is that if a policy doesn't have the support of grassroots staff, it can't succeed because no one will do it.

Upon hearing this reason, Lin Sanqi breathed a sigh of relief. If it were a matter of money, he was already prepared, and this major problem would be solved. It seems that getting the local government to pay is truly difficult.

County Magistrate Jin, unaware of Lin Sanqi's thoughts, continued:

"Besides money, there's also the issue of people. We're dissatisfied with Commissioner Lin. Our Andu County only has one county hospital right now, and it's mostly staffed by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners or Yao doctors, what we commonly call quack doctors."

All the medical school graduates stayed in the provincial capital or major cities. Meanwhile, almost all the vocational school graduates from provincial health schools went to work in regional hospitals and remained in the city.

As for places like our Andu County, even these regular college and vocational school graduates can't get jobs.

Commissioner Lin, think about it. Even our county hospital doesn't have qualified doctors. Now you're planning to have doctors stationed in every commune and every village. That's absolutely impossible. Where will we find doctors?

Lin Sanqi had also considered this point. Barefoot doctors do not need to be "regular troops"; anyone literate in the village can serve as a doctor.

Therefore, what County Chief Jin considered a problem was not a problem for Lin Sanqi either.

Lin Sanqi was more concerned about one question: how many patients were there, or rather, whether the patients had the money to spend at the hospital?
If the village clinic is built but there are no patients, then the investment will have been wasted.

But people are always born, grow old, get sick, and die. The only explanation for why patients don't go to the clinic is that they don't have money and are afraid to go to the hospital.

The whole country is poor now, especially in rural areas where there is no rich village. Villages like Huayuan Village in Jinhua, Huaide Village in the Special Economic Zone, and Huaxi Village in Jiangyin do not exist.

Poverty is very evenly distributed.

The reason Lin Sanqi chose Andu County, a poor county within a poor region, was to see if the people had the money to go to the health clinic.
If people in a nationally designated poverty-stricken county like Andu County dare to spend money at the health clinic, then other parts of the country have nothing to worry about; there is no place poorer than this.

“County Chief Jin, since I’m planning to use your Andu County, or rather the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, as a pilot area, I’m definitely bringing money and policies with me. If we need to solve everything for your local government, then what’s the point of having our Ministry of Health, right?”

County Chief Jin agreed, saying that since it was a pilot program, there must be preferential policies.

The first batch of pilots will definitely benefit.

Having figured this out, County Chief Jin chuckled.
"If the higher authorities are prepared to resolve the basic funding issues for village clinics and send doctors down to the county, then our county will definitely support it."

Lin Sanqi thought to himself, "You're dreaming! How many doctors are there in the whole country? If one county takes up hundreds of spots, the health systems in other regions will be paralyzed."

"By the way, Minister Jin, how's the county hospital's revenue these days? Or are there many patients?"

At this moment, County Magistrate Jin had a plan in mind, so he stood up with a smile:
"Commissioner Lin, the county hospital is not far from the guesthouse. We'll go and take a look now."

Lin Sanqi nodded, and seeing that everyone had almost finished eating, he also stood up.
"Let's go take a look together."

Wang Ji and Liu Zhanqi immediately exchanged glances, and the bodyguards quickly left the cafeteria.

After leaving the county guesthouse, Lin Sanqi stepped onto the stone-paved road of the only main street in the county town.

Although the county town is small, it has everything, including schools, supply and marketing cooperatives, and cinemas.

What Lin Sanqi found most strange was that there were many people dressed in ethnic minority costumes selling vegetables on both sides of the stone-paved road. They were selling a few bunches of greens, a few fish, and even piglets.

Lin Sanqi thought to himself, "These people from Andu County are really bold. They actually dare to openly do business on the street? Aren't they afraid of getting their tails cut off?"

The key point is that County Chief Jin, who was standing next to him, turned a blind eye to it, as if he was used to it.

Lin Sanqi couldn't help but ask:

"County Chief Jin, are you allowing business to be done here? Are you keeping up with the old ways of the society?" (End of Chapter)