Chinese Brightness Action to provide free cataract surgeries in Chad
Two hundred cataract patients in Chad will receive free eyesight restoration operations following the opening ceremony of the China’s 2018 Brightness Action held on Sept 28 in the China-Chad Friendship Hospital at N'Djamena, capital of Chad.
Li Jinjin, Chinese ambassador to Chad, delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of Brightness Action
Li Jinjin, Chinese ambassador to Chad, said at the ceremony that the action is separated into several phases and will last three years. It will involve five cooperation projects every year, including sending Chinese experts to Chad to offer free eyesight restoration surgeries to cataract patients, inviting one to two Chadian doctors to study in China and increasing the two sides’ exchange of medical officials.
Li said health is the foundation of a country’s development and that China-Chad medical cooperation will deepen the two sides’ friendship.
After his speech, the ambassador officially transferred medical equipment valued at 2 million yuan ($291,163.2) to Chad.
Aziz Mahamat Saleh, minister of the Chadian health department, delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of Brightness Action
The free surgeries are opportunities for the patients, especially those from families in poverty, said Aziz Mahamat Saleh, minister of the Chadian health department. They not only bring brightness but are good learning opportunities for medical workers from the China-Chad Friendship Hospital, he added.
Nine ophthalmologists from East China’s Jiangxi province, led by Gu Xuejun, leader of the Brightness Action's experts team, will perform the operations for this phase of Brightness Action.
The opening ceremony was also attended by the president of the China-Chad Friendship Hospital, the leader of China’s 13rd medical aid team to go to Chad, the project officer of the Brightness Action campaign and almost 200 medical workers from the two sides.
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