A paramedical worker with basic medical training working in a rural district in China.
（中国农村地区的）赤脚医生
Example sentencesExamples
Across remote villages, it dispatches so-called barefoot doctors armed with first-aid kits and drugs to combat dysentery.
Beijing can boast of a series of innovative public health schemes such as the ‘barefoot doctor’ program that brought basic health care to the most remote regions of China.
I didn't realize that there were still barefoot doctors around in China.
Schuftan's approach mirrors the experience of the barefoot doctors in China in the 1960s and 1970s.
These practices can be found in different times and places, including traditional Chinese, Tibetan and herbal folk medicine, midwifery and the barefoot doctors of 20th century China.
Definition of barefoot doctor in US English:
barefoot doctor
noun
A paramedical worker with basic medical training working in a rural district in China.
（中国农村地区的）赤脚医生
Example sentencesExamples
Beijing can boast of a series of innovative public health schemes such as the ‘barefoot doctor’ program that brought basic health care to the most remote regions of China.
Schuftan's approach mirrors the experience of the barefoot doctors in China in the 1960s and 1970s.
These practices can be found in different times and places, including traditional Chinese, Tibetan and herbal folk medicine, midwifery and the barefoot doctors of 20th century China.
I didn't realize that there were still barefoot doctors around in China.
Across remote villages, it dispatches so-called barefoot doctors armed with first-aid kits and drugs to combat dysentery.