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Health or death for China's mountain children

(Xinhua) Updated: 2015-01-16 15:02

CHENGDU - The first few years of life are delicate for rural children living in southwest China's mountain ranges. With threadbare living conditions and little access to medicine, they often survive by the grim mantra of getting strong or getting sick.

The harsh reality of rural child rearing hit 27-year-old farmer Han Jianying hard after she discovered her 2-year-old son experiencing bloody stools.

With income scarce, Han was needed on her mountain mushroom farm in the Yi minority village of Tangyang, Sichuan Province, less than a year after giving birth to her son, Ma Yunlong. Because normal term breastfeeding was not an option, Han supplemented Ma's diet with buckwheat and ghee butter before he was one month old.

With little supervision and a poor diet, Ma would often pick food from the ground with his unwashed hands, resulting in serious digestion problems from a very early age.

Dire situation

While Ma's illness is easily cured with proper medical treatment, many villages in rural areas have little access to transport or hospitals. As a result, even the most easily treated sicknesses claim the lives of thousands of rural children every year.

Diarrhea is one of the most serious illnesses affecting children in China's rural areas, taking the lives of an estimated 13,000 children under five years old every year, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Pneumonia, the most prevalent, kills 44,000 children under five every year.

"Pneumonia and Diarrhea are preventable childhood diseases," Zhu Xu, a Health Specialist with UNICEF, told Xinhua.

"They are treated by pneumococcal vaccination and rotavirus vaccination, which are not among the free vaccines to children in China while many developing countries have adopted those new vaccines." Access is a major factor for the villages.

Scattered and secluded in the mountains, road access to many of the mountain villages in Muli Tibetan Autonomous County of Liangshan where Han's village is located is impossible.

Delivering medicine to these areas is costly and complicated, sometimes reaching as high as 2,000 yuan ($323 U.S. Dollars), several months' wages, for a single box of medicine.

It is even harder to see a doctor. There are stories of villagers climbing across the mountains on all fours to access the nearby town where the clinic is located.

In many cases, folk remedies have taken the place of medicine, and local priests chanting sutras have taken the place of doctors.

While Ma is still surviving, this is not the case for an 8-month-year-old girl in the village, who, after being improperly diagnosed with food poisoning, died as a result being mistreated with folk medicine.

"She had loose bowel movements for more than a month," Padma Khamtrul, the 35-year-old village doctor, recalls.

With her parents away working on a farm and her grandparents too old to make the trip, they were unable to give the child proper treatment at a clinic.

"At first her grandparents thought it was food poisoning and gave her wild pepper, which they believed was the antidote. Then she was fed with bulrush."

"The baby finally died, two days before her one-year birthday."

Local efforts

To battle the harsh living conditions of rural children, the government initiated a new rural medical care system which was extended to Muli in 2009.

Starting from 2011, mothers receive 75 percent of their children's medical costs back.

The initiative has brought in several more patients from the surrounding area, says Druma, a doctor with the People's Hospital of Muli county, the Tibetan county where Tangyang village is located.

"In the past, the children were not brought to us until they had difficulty breathing, passed out or developed a twitch," she said. "Now they come at earlier stages of their illness."

The number of children died in the hospital from pneumonia, dropped from four or five per year before 2009 to one or two now, she said.

Medical workers also taught villagers basic health knowledge and first-aid skills.

"Now most of them know that they should wash hands before dinner," said Padma Khamtrul. "This is a big progress. Five years ago, most only washed their faces once a week."

Khamtrul also told villagers to use oral rehydration salts in case of diarrhea, which they can make themselves with sugar, water and salt.

UNICEF figures showed the fatality rate of children under five in China has dropped from 61 per thousand to 12 from 1991 to 2013. The rate was down by 71 percent in cities and 80 percent in rural areas.

"The government of China should be proud of its accomplishments, especially for children," said Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF representative to China who just wrapped up a trip to Liangshan. "Its rapid progress in building an economic foundation that has lifted millions of people out of poverty, reduced under five mortality by three quarters...is unprecedented in world history."

Challenge and suggestion

But it is too early to celebrate the progress. Old habits die hard, and the lack of doctors is still a haunting problem.

Tashi Yang, head of the health bureau of Muli, told Xinhua that they used to have more than 100 village doctors, 60 of whom had acquired medical license.

"But the licenses have expired now, and they failed to pass the exam to get a new one, hence are now unable to prescribe medicines," he said.

While lobbying for proper vaccinations, UNICEF is cooperating with local health authorities to train medical workers on prevention and management of pneumonia and other diseases.

Talking about the old traditions, UNICEF health specialist Dr. Zhu says culturally appropriate communication strategies can pay big dividends in health education.

"In the past Tibetan villagers would always lose their immunisation record," Zhu said.

"We then put a photo of the Panchen Lama inside the record book. None of the villagers lost them again."

"Similar measures should be taken in teaching parents how to take care of their children."

For Han Jianying, the experience of potentially losing her son has already taught her an unforgettable lesson.

"I will try my best to make sure that he doesn't eat anything not clean," she said.

"Hopefully he will work hard in the future and be a knowledgeable man. Then he will not make the mistakes I did."

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