Yunnan medical team performs surgeries in Myanmar

A joint medical team formed by the Yunnan Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission and Yunnan Provincial 2nd People’s Hospital left Kunming for Yangon Myanmar to roll out a welfare project called “walking in bright”.

The journalist learned that the medical team took with them more than 30,000 US dollars of medical equipment and medicines and conducted 200 cataract surgeries at a hospital in Myanmar in one week.

The team leader said that a high-level team of ophthalmologists was formed. Through the project, hospital exchanges and cooperation between China and Myanmar will be enhanced.

By Peng Xi; Editor: Eric Wang