| Abstract | Visits by WONCA officials had built on the work begun by members of the Hong Kong College of General Practitioiners in 1986, and already the Minister for Public Health, Professor Chen Minzhang, and his senior health officials had embraced the concept of family medicine as the basis for China's future health care system. The Beijing Society of General Practice had been formed and a training programme for general practice established at the Capital University of Medical Science. Yet despite these advices, it was apparent that it would not be possible in the foreseeable future to provide a fully trained family physican for the 1.2 billion people of China; neither the manpower nor the training was available. So I put before that meeting of Council the proposition that until this was achievable, WONCA should promote the concept of family medicine as applicable to all health workers from the village doctor to the teaching hospital consultant. |
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