Chapter 983 - 919: Three Routes
Villages with clinics are already considered big villages, moreover, they have to be ones where population loss is not severe.
Ningtai County has some level of small industry support, with the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries all still alive, managing to retain a population to some extent. Especially those over the age of fifty, many have returned home for retirement and work, which makes frequent clinic visitors out of them.
Such big villages or administrative villages were not originally the focus of the investigators’ inquiry. However, many from the surrounding natural villages often come to seek medical treatment and buy medicine. Asking from one household to the next, aside from the longer distances, is not too taxing.
"Women who’ve been beaten? Why don’t you ask the Women’s Federation?"
The person in charge of a certain clinic, who also acts as both physician and nurse, takes a drag from the cigarette offered by the investigator, examines the photo in hand carefully, and then makes a suggestion.
The investigator across from him, sipping tea to relieve fatigue, asks with a smile, "Does the Women’s Federation take care of such matters?"
"Whether they take care of it or not, whenever there’s a man in our village who beats his wife, the director of the Women’s Federation will report it. They always come by later to talk it out. Now, isn’t there a requirement to keep ledgers? There should be records. And in serious cases, they even ask you police to pay a visit. Wouldn’t there be records of that as well?" The clinic doctor watches TV, so he knows what the police are after.
The investigator can’t help but stand up, pondering aloud, "Your suggestion isn’t bad, it seems we can indeed give it a try."
The clinic doctor instantly feels flattered, laughing heartily.
The co-investigator asks at this time, "How does your Women’s Federation director report? Through paper reports or some other method?"