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China's Barefoot Doctors

In 1968, Chairman Mao officially launched a scheme to improve healthcare in rural China, by giving thousands of people basic medical training and sending them out to work in villages. They were known as the 鈥渂arefoot doctors鈥� 鈥� Gordon Liu was one of them.

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