Chinese ophthalmologists help restore sight for Cambodian eye patients

4 December 2013
Aid and development / Chinese aid / Government / Health care policy and administration / International relations / Non-DAC members / Public health / Social development
Beijing Tongren Hospital / China-Cambodia Friendship Association / Chinese aid / Ek Sam Ol / Military Hospital / Preah Ketomelea Hospital / Wu Jixiang

A medical team of 10 Chinese ophthalmologists from the Beijing Tongren Hospital have helped operate on eye patients in Cambodia as a part of the celebrations of the 55th anniversary of China-Cambodia diplomatic ties. The team have spent a two-day humanitarian mission at the Preah Ketomelea Hospital, known as the Military Hospital, here in order to perform cataract surgeries for Cambodian patients free-of- charge. … “We are very pleased to help eye patients in Cambodia and hope that this humanitarian task will contribute to deepening friendship relations between the peoples of the two countries,” he [Beijing Tongren Hospital director Wu Jixiang], said Wednesday after the two-day mission. Lieutenant General Ly Sovann, head of the Military Hospital, said during the mission that the Chinese doctors had surgeries on 100 Cambodian cataract patients. …

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