The reluctant departure

China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-17 10:20
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During a follow-up visit, a villager gives Zhang Jianming (right) and Xu Xiaochan (center) her homemade rice dumplings.  [Photo by Shi Yalei/Xinhua]

Language is the biggest obstacle. At the beginning, village officials were asked to be interpreters for the villagers' medical treatment. During their regular visits, the couple discovered that there were still many hidden health hazards, and the villagers lack basic health awareness or any formal health education, a problem needed to be solved urgently.

In the past two years, they have established standardized clinics in the villages, regularly visited their homes to promote health knowledge. It only took them half a year to finish screening the villagers for chronic diseases.

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