Some banners (counties) in Inner Mongolia cover a vast area and have a scattered population, inconvenient transportation, and backward medical and health services so the region has come up with a mobile medical service system, using vehicles with the necessary equipment. One example is in the Urad Rear Banner near the city of Bayannur, where the mobile medical service has a medical outfit with about a dozen common drugs and supplies more than 2,000 households. Estimates put the home visits of each mobile medical service at six per month, covering more than 3,000 kilometers and treating at least 50 people.

Mobile medical care in the Urad Rear Banner, near the city of Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, on March 20. [Photo/Xinhua]