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China launches program to help ethnic minorities
2003-11-26
Xinhua
A medical team consisting of 18 volunteer doctors left Beijing Wednesday for China's southwestern regions to start a new program to provide free medical treatment and lectures for ethnic minority groups.
The medical team will tour more than 10,000 km in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to offer free medical treatment to local ethnic minorities, said Wu Jingchun, vice president of China Population Welfare Foundation.
Wu said the team also plans to promote modern health knowledge among the public and train local medical workers for the two provinces, where most of China's ethnic minority groups live.
He said the 20-day visit by the medical team will be the first move of China's "welfare for the ethnic minorities" program.
The volunteers are all senior doctors from Beijing's universities and military hospitals.
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