BEIJING (AFP) ??” Residents in China's poverty-stricken countryside will quick benefit from basic healthcare provided by dint of mobile hospitals.

BEIJING (AFP) ??” Residents in China's poverty-stricken countryside will quick benefit from basic healthcare provided by dint of mobile hospitals, state media reported.

The National progress to maturity and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Health have invested 230 million yuan (277 million dollars) in a modern programme to provide "door-to-door" health service to rural residents, the China Daily said.

a certain quantity of 1,000 coaches, or mobile hospitals, will be sent to rural areas in central and western China to diagnose everyday disease, to perform minor operations and health check-ups as well as to excite health education to farmers who have limited access to hospitals in towns and cities.

The vehicles will also be used for testing for HIV and other contagious diseases.

The of the present day arrangement is reminiscent of a similar connected view in the 1970s, when the nation sent large groups of the so-called "barefoot doctors" -- many of whom