Like all Health Visitors, Nurse Tang had three years' training in one of Hong Kong's general hospitals. Then she did a further year as a student Health Visitor. In many villages the people still have an inbred distrust of both strangers and Western medicine and each Health Visitor has to find her own way of winning acceptance. In Nurse Tang's case it came when she rushed a child to hospital just in time to prevent it dying from tetanus. When she first started giving inoculations and vaccinations she often had to spend half an hour persuading parents they were not dangerous. Now most children have them as a matter of course.
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