Brief introduction of Qin Xiangguan's legendary life

42 years ago, Qin Xiangguan, a barefoot doctor in Changyang Tujia village in western Hubei, initiated the Rural Cooperative Medical System. His deeds were personally reported by Mao Zedong on the front page of People's Daily and interviewed by Mao Zedong four times. He was promoted to deputy director of the Health Department of Hubei Province. However, when the future was in full swing, he resigned and went home, gradually fading out of people's sight. Nowadays, with the gradual popularization of the new rural cooperative medical system in China, Qin Xiangguan's name has been repeatedly mentioned, and he is known as "the father of rural cooperative medical system in China".

Qin Xiangguan is from Changyang County, Yichang. He was born in August of the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933). Poor family, only three years in a private school. 1964, the Party Committee of Paradise Commune sent him to attend an advanced Chinese medicine class. After coming back in April of the following year, he became a doctor in the commune health center, and he personally felt the pain that farmers had no money to treat diseases. Many people are dragged down by minor illnesses and serious illnesses. 65438-0966, resigned as a hospital doctor and worked as a barefoot doctor in Dujiacun Brigade Clinic. In August, the first rural cooperative medical care pilot project "Dujia Village Clinic of Paradise Commune" was listed. Each farmer pays 1 yuan for cooperative medical care every year, and the village draws 50 cents from the collective public welfare fund as the cooperative medical care fund. Except for a few chronic diseases that need to take medicine all the year round, people only pay a registration fee of 50 cents every time they see a doctor, so taking medicine is free. At the same time, village clinics and local pharmacies of villagers' groups are characterized by "three soils" (local medicine, local medicine and local medicine) and "four self" (self-cultivation, self-mining, self-made and self-use), opening up medicine gardens and planting a large number of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines. To achieve "early treatment, early prevention", reflecting "not much money, convenient treatment; The benefits of not leaving the team for minor illness and not leaving the team for serious illness are deeply supported by the people.

Qin photo shop is a legend with ups and downs: Mao Zedong met three times; Headline report of People's Daily; "Barefoot" boarded the World Health Organization Forum; Re-elect two NPC deputies; From farmers to officers; When the future was in full swing, he resolutely resigned and returned to his hometown; The "Mrs. Director" is still a farmer.

Thirty-nine years ago, Qin Xiangguan, a "barefoot doctor" in Changyang Tujia village in western Hubei Province, pioneered the "rural cooperative medical system" that costs nothing to see a doctor and take medicine. Thanks to President Mao Zedong's personal instructions and the headline report in People's Daily, the system has been widely promoted throughout the country, benefiting hundreds of millions of farmers. Its founder, Qin Xiangguan, was also promoted to deputy director of the Health Department of Hubei Province. Just when the future was in full swing, he bravely retired and returned home.

After more than 20 years, people's impression of him gradually faded. Nowadays, with the promotion of china new rural cooperative medical system system, people's dusty memories are slowly opening, and they are eager to know this "historical hero" past lives. On May 6th, the author drove to Dujia Village, a paradise 50 kilometers away from Changyang County/KLOC-0, and interviewed this 73-year-old legendary Tujia man who is known as the "father of rural cooperative medical care in China".