西藏和平解放以前,社会长期停滞在封建农奴制度,实行“政教会一”的封建领主专政。医疗卫生工作十分落后,卫生状况极端恶劣。在和平解放初期,天花、鼠疫、麻疹、白喉、伤寒、痢疾等急性、烈性传染病,以及碘缺乏病、大骨节病、克山病、麻风病等地方病流行猖獗,严重危害着西藏各族人民的生命与健康。随着民主改革全面胜利,民 Before the peaceful liberation of Tibet, the society had stagnated for a long time in the feudal serfdom system and implemented the dictatorship of the feudal lords of the “political churches.” The medical and health work is very backward and the health conditions are extremely poor. In the early days of peaceful liberation, acute and severe infectious diseases such as smallpox, plague, measles, diphtheria, typhoid fever, dysentery, and endemic diseases such as iodine deficiency disease, Kashin-Beck disease, Keshan disease, and leprosy were endangering people of all ethnic groups in Tibet. Life and health. With the full victory of democratic reform, the people