Some activities under a rural health improvement project organized by China Women's Development Foundation and China Resources Pharmaceutical Group were held in Dingzhou, a city in North China's Hebei Province, on September 13.
The activities included an inspection tour to the operation of rural clinics and village-level health-focused mutual-assistance groups, exchanges of project achievements, a donation ceremony and a capacity-building training session for grassroots doctors.
During its implementation in Dingzhou during the past two years, the public welfare project has adhered to the guiding principles of strengthening capacity building related to grassroots medical diagnosis and treatment services and further improving public awareness of self-health management, and rolled out a three-step development strategy.
According to the development strategy, the project has built a clinic room in three pilot villages, created a village-level mutual-assistance-group model with the participation of 15 offline groups and over 300 people, adopted online interaction approaches to guide about 1,400 villagers to pay more attention to personal health, and engaged over 100 rural medical workers in 15-month-long WeChat-based real-time professional guidance and two training sessions on modern rehabilitation skills.
At an exchange event, all participants, especially experts and scholars, gave high praises of the project. Several professionals said it has created innovative solutions to address the "last mile" difficulties for grassroots people in seeking health services.
The CWDF and the CR Pharmaceutical made a donation to Dingzhou to support the building of rural clinics and create supportive platforms for the robust development of health-focused mutual-assistance approach in Dingzhou.
The training session brought together several experts and scholars, who gave their lectures over the latest development trends of general medicine, practical skills in clinical field, and doctor-patient communication tips.
Photos from CWDF
(Source: CWDF / Women of China)
Editor: Lei Yang
