Cabinet Offers Dwindling Number of Rural Doctors Some Incentives

(Beijing) – The State Council has rolled out a basket of incentives aimed at rural village doctors to address a worsening shortage of medical practitioners in China's countryside, a government document released on March 23 says.

Under the central government program for nurturing rural clinics and practitioners, village doctors will be provided with training no less than twice a year, including at county or township hospitals every three or five years.