A medical staff from Wuxi People's Hospital poses for a photo with an African girl during the aid projects in 2016. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] 

Three health workers from Wuxi People's Hospital in East China's Jiangsu province began a six-month mission to the community health care center in Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) in southern Cambodia on Sept 15.

The mission is the latest of several aid projects the hospital has taken part in, following this June's mission to Zanzibar.

The three volunteers heading for Sihanoukville are Guo Jian from the department of gynaecology and obstetrics, Cao Hui from the department of gastrology and Yu Lei from the hospital's clinical laboratory. Their specialties correspond to the strains of diseases common in SSEZ.

Wuxi is also providing support to SSEZ's health system through several other projects.

SSEZ's healthcare center was established thanks to support from Wuxi's health and family planning commission, as well as the Provincial Health Department of Sihanoukville and companies inside SSEZ.

Wuxi People's Hospital has also been appointed to set up clinics in SSEZ, and to assemble and guide the medical aid team to be sent to Cambodia.

The construction of the healthcare center in SSEZ were completed thanks to the help of a delegation from Wuxi People's Hospital, lead by the hospital's vice-president and Party committee deputy secretary, Yao Yong, who discussed plans for the project with local companies and offered guidance on medical treatment inside the center and the layout of consulting rooms.

They also helped test out the video call system for remote consultations and conducted careful investigations into standard of the local accommodation, canteen, and other facilities.

Wuxi People's Hospital established a checkout room, consulting room for teaching, transfusion room, debridement room, and gynecological room inside the healthcare center.

The hospital has also helped relieve an acute shortage of medical supplies in SSEZ by sending a wide range of provisions to Cambodia. This included 531,400 yuan ($80,550) worth of equipment such as electrocardiograph machines, rescue carriages, automated biochemical analyzers and microscope, and 153,400 yuan ($23,250) worth of medicine.

To ensure that patients can receive prompt and appropriate treatment in Sihanoukville, a remote consulting system was constructed, under the leadership of Wuxi People's Hospital, encompassing fifty-inch-long liquid crystal display televisions, 19.5-inch-long liquid crystal desk-top computers, terminal software for video meetings, high-speed photographic apparatus, and digital cameras, among other equipment.

Meanwhile, a remote medical consulting center was built to realize real-time consultations.

The three doctors from Wuxi will now help local health workers put this equipment to good use and improve health and sanitation conditions in Sihanoukville.