We went to the road of village clinic with depressive feeling. We have no words on the way and everyone was depressed.
 
We didn’t disturb them when we see the busy health personnel in hospital, but we realized that there was a few elderly came to see a doctor. We confused that why there are so many sick elderly and they did not go to see a doctor? The people who came to clinic had gone at noon, so we chatted with doctor with doubt. The following dialogues are the interview to the doctor:
Are you busy everyday just like today, doctor?
Basically, yes. There are many people to see a doctor every day and it is also thanks to the present new farming system, we just spend a little money to see a doctor.
I notice that there is a few elderly come to see a doctor，anyway, many elderly should have been ill, why there are a few people come to clinic?
The rural elderly are very industrious and thrifty. They never go to see a doctor because of a little ailment such as headache and fever, many of them deal with some folk prescriptions and others do nothing. There are also many rural elderly cure their disease with some methods of feudal superstition instead of going to see a doctor.
Do the rural elderly have medical insurance?
Most of the elderly have medical insurance and endowment insurance, but there are still part of elderly are not will to cover the insurance because they do not understand or hear some hearsay news.
Are doctors here 24 hours?
Yes, we are here 24 hours, two doctors on duty will take turns at night.
What about the conditions in clinic?
The condition of clinic is not too bad, general indisposition and small operation can be done here, but we have no way for heavy disease because our medical equipment is limited after all. County and city hospitals sometimes send experts to cure the people.
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