Health and Wealth

When the news came on November 23 that absolute poverty had been eradicated in China with the nine last-mile impoverished counties almost tripling their income from the national poverty line, there was a sense of achievement in the country. As for me, I have a personal angle in this.

You see, these nine counties are in Guizhou, the province in southwest China that struggled with the largest indigent population. I was scheduled to go there in October as part of a team to look at the remarkable institutions and individuals there that had helped ferry over 9 million people in the province to stable incomes since 2012.

One of our destinations was the Jishikang Hospital,