barefoot doctor

Etymology
Derived from the practice of farmers in southern China working barefoot in rice paddies.

Noun

 * 1)  A farmer or rural resident with basic medical training who worked as a doctor in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from the mid-1960s until the 1980s, generally under a government-sponsored program.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: nudpieda kuracisto
 * Finnish: paljasjalkalääkäri
 * French:
 * German: Barfußarzt, Barfußärztin
 * Norwegian: barfotlege
 * Portuguese: médico de pés descalços, médica de pés descalços
 * Romanian: medic desculț, doctor desculț
 * Russian: босоногий доктор
 * Spanish: médico descalzo, médica descalza
 * Swedish: barfotaläkare
 * Tibetan: སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན་མ, སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན
 * Volapük: nüdafutasanan