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Jiading medical team to offer ophthalmic services in Qinghai

( chinadaily.com.cn ) 2014-08-04

Jiading medical team to offer ophthalmic services in Qinghai

Medical team members take a photo before departure.

A medical team composed of 21 members from Shanghai’s Jiading district set out for Jigzhi county of Northwest China’s Qinghai province on Aug 3 to offer ophthalmic medical services to local residents.

Given that the region’s average altitude is over 3,600 meters, resulting in high ultraviolet radiation, many people in Jigzhi county suffer from ophthalmic diseases.

This is the fourth time Jiading has sent a medical team to Jigzhi county. Apart from providing free ophthalmic consultations and lectures, the team will perform free ophthalmic surgeries for the first time.

Since the county is short of medical resources, medical supplies, including gauze, sanitizers and cotton balls, were directly delivered from Jiading. Jiading health departments donated ophthalmic equipment such as surgery microscopes, slit lamps and non-contact tenonometers. The county’s health departments will also open a “green channel” for transferred patients and prepare an electric generator for the surgeries.

MAIL TO DISTRICT CHIEFjiading@jiading.gov.cn

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