Liu Yujie is measuring the blood pressure of a villager. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
At around 5 p.m. on November 3, when Liu Yujie, a college student village doctor, was about to leave work when a taxi driver came to see her. The driver's cervical spine was uncomfortable and often dizzy, and Liu Yujie used massage, acupuncture and cupping for nearly 1 hour.
Liu Yujie is a doctor at the Dyefang Village Clinic in Taohua Town, Feixi County, Hefei City, Anhui Province. In May, Liu Yujie passed the recruitment exam and became a village doctor in Dyefang Village. In accordance with the requirements of the superiors, in July, the clinic of Dyefang Village opened a traditional Chinese medicine pavilion, and Liu Yujie visited here.
After graduating from Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2016, Liu Yujie worked many jobs, and her last job before becoming a village doctor was in a private hospital. In the three years of the pandemic, private hospitals have been greatly affected, and their income has also decreased. Coupled with the fact that she is gradually getting older and is the only daughter in the family, Liu Yujie wants to change to a stable job closer to home.
Now when you enter the hospital, you must take the test every time you enter. Liu Yujie, 28, said she was worried about her ability to learn Xi, so she quit her job at a private hospital last year and came to the village clinic.
Among her college classmates, Liu Yujie was not the only one who went to work at the village clinic. After graduating, she still had a lot of contact with seven or eight classmates, three of whom worked in the village clinic.
Liu Yujie prepares to give acupuncture to the patient. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
After working in the village clinic, Liu Yujie no longer rented a house as before, but lived with her parents. Now when she comes home from work, her parents are waiting for her to cook a meal, which is a very happy thing for Liu Yujie.
Dyeing Village is only a 20-minute drive from Hefei City, and the villagers are concentrated in a large community, and the village clinic is very close to the community. Many elderly villagers go out to buy groceries, pass by the village clinic, and stop by to measure blood pressure and blood sugar, and then go home to cook.
Unlike the private hospitals in the city, Liu Yujie has many old patients in the village clinic. Not long after the opening of the Chinese Medicine Pavilion, some villagers came to Liu Yujie for acute lumbar sprain. The villager was in so much pain that he couldn't walk properly. Liu Yujie gave the villager two consecutive days of acupuncture, and the villagers realized the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine and trusted Liu Yujie. In the past two days, this villager has some discomfort in his neck, and he came to Liu Yujie to see a doctor again.
The patients in the village clinic are all older, and giving them a good doctor, Liu Yujie feels like treating her grandparents well. For Liu Yujie, after becoming a village doctor, there is an added sense of intimacy in the sense of accomplishment of seeing a doctor and saving people.
In addition to treating villagers, Liu Yujie also does public health work such as managing patients with hypertension and diabetes. The village has a permanent population of nearly 40,000 people, of which nearly 10,000 are over 65 years old. Because of the large population served, there are a total of 5 health workers in Dyefang Village, including two doctors, including Liu Yujie, two in charge of children's health care, and one person in charge of laboratory work.
Before Liu Yujie became a village doctor, she had already obtained a medical practitioner qualification certificate. Looking for this job is based on her career plan for the next 5-10 years, and she doesn't want to wait until she is 35 years old to have job anxiety that she can't handle.
Liu Yujie said that the attractiveness of rural areas to young people is becoming stronger, which is inseparable from the support of relevant policies, and she herself is a beneficiary. In order to implement the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the development of traditional Chinese medicine, thoroughly implement the "14th Five-Year Plan for Improving the Service Capacity of Grassroots Chinese Medicine", and improve the service capacity of grassroots Chinese medicine, in February, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine organized and formulated the "Construction Standards for the Service Capacity Improvement of Traditional Chinese Medicine Pavilions in Community Health Service Centers and Township Health Centers (Trial)" and "Construction Standards for Traditional Chinese Medicine Pavilions in Community Health Service Stations and Village Clinics (Trial)".
It is precisely because of the introduction of the policy that there is a traditional Chinese medicine pavilion in the Dyefang Village Clinic, and there is also a job for Liu Yujie. Before finding this job, Liu Yujie had been looking for a job for nearly 1 year.
Strengthening the grassroots has always been an important goal of China's medical reform. Liu Yujie said that although her own strength is relatively small, if there are more doctors like her at the grassroots level, the small problems of residents' headaches and brain fever can be solved at the grassroots level, which can relieve the pressure on large hospitals.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Liu Changrong **China Youth Daily.
*: China Youth Daily.