Page 95 - An Overview of Penghu

Hearing his dire plea to the world, the Female Patriots' Association and the Penghu
Prefectural Directorate donated money and the following:

Ÿ Radios

Several female directorate officers and members of the Female Patriots' Association made
around 350 aragonite-embedded belts and sold them in Taipei with the help of the Association's
Taiwan branch. They then used the revenue to purchase five radios, which were given to police
stations in Wangan and Shuian, and Jiangjungao and Dayu in Wangan Village, and Jibei Isle in
Baisha Village.

The communication department also installed a radio at the police station in Dongji,
where a lighthouse has already been built, bringing the number of radios on the offshore islands
to six in total. The daily radio news broadcast brings immense benefits to the people on islands.
Not only does it serve as a reference for police officers, teachers, and district officers at work,
but it also gives the general public a sense of comfort. The government has decided to cover the
expense for maintenance and batteries with their police budget, similar to what it does for
maintaining telephones at police stations.

Ÿ Mobile medical services:

After negotiation, the Taiwan Branch of the Female Patriots' Association agreed to
earmark 100 Taiwanese yen for the Penghu Branch to purchase medicine. The Penghu Branch
also contracted three doctors and dispatched them to populous islands to provide mobile
medical services every month, such as Jiangjunao, Dongyuping, Xiyuping, and Huayu in
Wangan Village, as well as Jibei in Baisha Village.

Ÿ First-aid stations

Setting up first-aid stations is a must to the regular mobile medical service provided by
contracted doctors. Two such first-aid stations are set up at Jiangjunao Police Station of Wangan
Village and Jibei Police Station of Baisha Village; both are equipped with hygienic equipment
and medications of more than 60 kinds. Police officers at the two stations are also asked to assist
in first-aid operations using medications and equipment in the first-aid stations. The first-aid
stations won positive feedback from the islanders, so the Directorate decided to install them at
ten other islands as well. It is now planning the installation with funds obtained by selling
aragonite products.

As for shuttle boats, the government started drafting formal budgets for them in 1932, so
we can expect them to become available soon and finally see some improvement to the miserable
lives on isolated islands. The shuttle boats will also make it possible to provide postal services
as well.

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