MEDICAL AND HEALTH WORK IN MINORITY NATIONALITY AREAS OF NORTHWEST, SOUTHWEST, AND CENTRAL-SOUTH CHINA IN 1951

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• Publication Date: June 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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LANGUAGE Chinese
Sociological - Minority nationalities,
public health
Daily nevepapers
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MHDICAL AHD HEALTH t70RY IH MuloiitTx HATICHALIT7C AREAS
OF SORTHftRST, SOOTHWFST: AHD CEfAfRAL-SOUTH CHIIfA'IN 1951
Reports submitted to the aecand plenary session of the Commission of the
Affairs of Sntionalities, held 14 - 31 December 1951, showed the progress made
in the healtl? and medical pregrame of the minority natianality arena. The re-
ports attributed the sucepss oP the programe *.?o medical teame_and Financial ns-
sistaacq Of the Central Peopl??a vav>.rnment. Three repbrts,aede by the chairaen
Of ths?istiomlities Affairs fiommttteeF cf the 9orthxest, Southxest, sad Cen=
tral-South China Military Administrative Committees, were published in +,he
Peiping .Jan-min J_lh-pan iv - io Februs.,?y 1952,
The following are summaries :.t, t},~;e reports,
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The Peiping Ten-min Jih-?pao of 10 February 1952 carriefl the report,sub-
mitted by Wang Feng, chsi.-rmn of the Fationsliti~s Affairs Committee of the
Horthvest Chins_y+i+txcry and Ada+nistzativA Committed. This report disclosed
that P86 heal+,h end :rode Lcona~ame:'s gcodJ offices had been establ3.,~Ed in
Sinkiang, Zsneu, Hingeie, and Tainghsi. Aaphasizing that mobile teams were
also the political propsgandista and organizers far the Communist Party sad
the Central People'e Government, the report vent oa to say:
"Aster the liberation, the Central Pecple~a Government and the Horth-
vest China Milil:a_ry and Administrative Committee appropriated special medical
funds, equivalent in value to 18,143,165 cattiee of millet;, and donated s
large supply oP medical supplies valued at approximately 4 million cattiee of
wheat. For the promotion of trade and medir_al service among the m:iori.ty
nationalities, 286 health and trade offices and specialized agencies were es-
" tablished in Sinkiang,.Ransu, Hingeia, and Tsin'ghai. ~In addition to health
~ centers anP. stations, mobile trade ?eaas and traveling medical teams pene-
trated agricultural and livestock :arming areas to carry oa their work. Ac-
gordiag to incomplete data, Epidemic Prevention Team Ho 7 of the Central People~e
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Gov~+~+~+~rt and all the health agencies of various levels in the Northxest treated
nearly k50,000 members of minority nationality groups fY~om.-Octoller 1950 to June
1951? They also vaccinated 200,000 pepple against smallpox and innoculated
108,000 people against other dieeases~
"Trade and medical teams not only have their specific functions to perform,
but they are also the political propagandists; organizers,-end the political
working teams for the Communist Party and the Central People's Government. For
instance, the Tu-1an Haiea, in Tainghai, the mobile trading team organized by
the Tu-lan Branch of the State TredYng Company not only completed its trade
aZtivities in Chu-ma-lai, but also it publicized the minority nationality policy,
the tax collection policy, and the P.esist America, Aid Korea ideology which ele-
vated the political consciousness of the masses.
"Sometimes work among the minority nationalities requires individual trade
and medical teams to assume dual Punetions. Therefore, while s trade team sells
its merchandise, it should be ready to treat the sick; and while it conducts
propaganda, it should be prepared to organize politically the minority nation-
elities. This is a very good way tc launch mass work in nomadic il0estock-
farming areas. However, the political cadres have not emphasized the successful
experiences of the above type cf work, gad, therefore, the strength of these
mobile trade and medical teams hs= net been fully utilized to promote this kind
of activity. Hereafter, under *.he united leadership of all levels of the people's
goverhmente and agrncles concerned, all available public and private resources
-must be coc~dinsted to further this work "
The Peiping den-min J_h-~+ao, cn 11 February 1952, carried important parts
of the report of Wang Wei-chou, chairmen of the Nationalities Affairs Committee
of the Southxest Chins Military and Adm:nit:s+,ive Committee.in which the fol-
lowing highlights of the medical and h~slth w,zk. xere given:
"More then 1E0 health CBIIterE and at +t?cns have been restored or established
in 'all the-minority nationality srea> and 29 m:,t:le medical teams have been or-
ganized. T'nese medical teams haws prc.vidAd ffedicsl treatment to the masses gratis
or at reduced fees, The Tibetan Aut,n~;mou. Region in Slkang, with the support
_of 'the Central People's Governmen?., elim::.ated r:nderpest which had infected an
area of 2,000 11 la circumference and *.:Nat~d or exam-fined 20,000 heed of cattle
and horses as a preventive measure against epizootic diseases."
Only a- very -sketchy- ztv:51 ~:a the preg_'ees of medical and health work
among the_minority nationalities it the went:al-South China region vas incor-
porated-in the report of Chang Ch~h-., -hsirman of the Nationalities Affairs
Committee bf tht Central-South Chirs Military and Administrative Committee.
Pertinent portions cf Chang~s zap;-t tubL'ehe3 in the Peiping ,Ten-min Jih-pao
on 18 February 1952, regarding health and medical work said:
,,"In the field of health wor?, c:gen=_ have beer. established,-and medical
treatment teams have been sent out to the fie13 while epidemic prevention teams
'Have harried on their xork i.n the minority nationality areas. Some localities
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have carried.on epizootic preveatiori and treatment work. During their glsit,
tya Ceatial Peogls~e fiDVernment Miss~oa,and the Aeat Hunan Kiaeicxi extended'
medaoal t~rea'tlien~~ carried .on' eTiox$-{{:~erm~henlth? trhining o~eazeg add gave; eons
meQicsl ai}ppliez to thq ninority.mt3onm~itiea.
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