Medical team members take a photo before departure. |
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.