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Tibetan doctor’s quest to make medicine affordable for herders
By:Xinhua
update:August 14,2018
 
In 2000, Gyaco left home to study in a medical school in neighboring Qinghai Province, majoring in traditional Tibetan medicine.
 
"As I knew what the herders really needed, I had always been training myself to be a general practitioner who could not only cure diseases but also set a broken bone or deliver babies," Gyaco said.
 
In 2004, Gyaco graduated from college and returned to Maqu. In his early years as a doctor, he made house calls to herders in remote regions to prescribe medicine and treat illness.
 
"Transport was inconvenient at that time," Gyaco said. "Once I had to ride my horse for three hours to reach an isolated village around 150 km away from the county."
 
Despite the toil, Gyaco said he only accepted a fee for the medicine not the visit. "The doctor is a sacred profession in herders' minds. We should always keep that in mind."
 
In recent years, Gyaco and his colleagues have created 325 kinds of low-price Tibetan medicine prescriptions, and more than 70 of them have been made into pills, tablets and capsules for sale on the market.
 
In the past, herders often ignored their ailments and avoided going to the hospital in fear of the cost.
 
"As medicine has become affordable in recent years, herders are more aware of their health," Gyaco said. In 2017, his hospital received more than 33,000 patients.
 
Gyaco has always believed that this ancient Tibetan medical culture should be better preserved and developed.
 
"We will bring modern management into our Tibetan medical hospital, making medical services for herders even better," he said.
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