RUZHOU, China — When the call came for local doctors and nurses to step up for their troubled community, the emergency wasn’t medical. Ruzhou, a city of one million people in central China, urgently needed a new hospital, their bosses said. China’s doctors and nurses are paid a small fraction of what medical professionals make in the United States. On message boards online and in the local media, many complained that they felt pressured to pony up thousands of dollars they could not afford to give. Others, speaking to state and local media, asked why money from lowly employees was needed to build big-ticket government projects.

Source: New York Times November 10, 2019 22:00 UTC