Chinese medical workers celebrate their festival for the first time

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Medical workers in China are celebrating their own festival for the first time on Sunday.

The proposal for establishing the national Medical Workers' Day was approved by the State Council on Nov. 3, 2017, making every Aug. 19 the day to acknowledge and commemorate the efforts of Chinese medical personnel.

Meet Chinese medical workers

Besides those who provide medical services in the city, there is a large number of medical practitioners active in China's rural areas where healthcare is still underdeveloped.

Under adverse working conditions, they have carried forward the humanitarian spirit and devoted themselves to the health of rural citizens.

Doctor He Shiying (R) asks a sick boy about his health, August 15, 2018. /Xinhua Photo

He Shiying has been working in Meipo Village of Dahejia Township in northwest China's Gansu Province as a village-based doctor since 1966, when she was 20.

Doctor Sun Qingyong (R) gives a patient intravenous injection, August 15, 2018. /Xinhua Photo

Doctor Sun Qingyong became a paraplegic from a traffic accident 22 years ago. He soon started offering medical treatment to his fellow villagers on a wheelchair at a clinic in Shaluo Village of Guanghuojie Township in Ningshan County, Ankang, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Doctor Liang Chunrong makes his way up a sand dune, January 25, 2018. /Xinhua Photo

Liang Chunrong has been a doctor in Arxiang Township of Zhangwu County, Fuxin, northeast China's Liaoning Province, for over 20 years, much of which is desert.

Chinese medical workers are also providing medical aid overseas.

Luo Zhanliang practices acupuncture treatment for a local patient at his clinic in Nairobi, Kenya, August 17, 2018. /Xinhua Photo

Luo Zhanliang and his wife Pan Lianxue, both doctors of traditional Chinese medicine, have been operating a clinic in Nairobi for over 20 years, attracting more and more African patients.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, ahead of the country’s first Medical Workers' Day, called on medical workers to carry forward the humanitarian spirit to save lives and make further contributions to promoting people's health.

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Source(s): Xinhua News Agency