PUPH sends medical mission to Uzbekistan
Dec 25, 2019
Peking University, Dec. 25, 2019: An ophthalmological team of Peking University People’s Hospital was sent on a medical mission to Uzbekistan on November 22. During their 9-day stay there, the team members conducted 405 cataract surgeries and screened 500 people.
The team members
Zhang Wenchuan, chargé d'affaires at the Chinese Embassy to Uzbekistan, said the mission was part of the Health Silk Road Project and represented an important outcome in health cooperation between the two countries.
Deputy Prime Minister Elmira Bositkhanova of Uzbekistan said in a meeting that China and Uzbekistan are good friends, and that the mission would further the friendship between the two peoples and enhance exchanges within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to which both countries were member states.
At the meeting
Written by: Fan Xiaofei
Edited by: Huang Weijian
Source: Peking University People’s Hospital (Chinese)
