Tokyo, Apr. 23.
Ten million Japanese in 3,600 villages are without the services of a single resident physician, a recent Welfare Ministry report discloses.
The serious shortage of doctors in the rural areas since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war is due to a general exodus of doctors to the more lucrative urban centres. The country practices are not appealing fo the College graduates who have spent huge sums end time on their education. The return in the hamlets, they claim, does not compensate them for their services.
The report lists a total of 62,934 physicians throughout the country in 1938, of whom 51,837 were medical practitioners with their own offices and establishments as opposed to those working in schools and government institutions. The total number was 2,500 less than in the preceding
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