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http://www.med-poor-aid.org/main.asp
Mainland China's urban living environment has improved dramatically
as a result of the country's rapid development over the past 20
years. Unfortunately, conditions in some rural and remote regions
have failed to keep pace.
Proposed by Li Ka-shing in May 1998, the Medical Relief for the
Poor Program is carried out by medical professionals from the Shantou
University Medical College and its five affiliated hospitals to
help patients in the remote countryside.
From the project's inception in September 1998, the medical team
led by Professor Sun Delin has traveled to the poorest areas of
the country in an effort to deliver medical care and much needed
medicine to patients and their families. In just four short years,
this widely recognized program has offered its services in areas
such as Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Tibet.
Assistance offered by this program comes in many forms. There are
general/specialty medical teams, surgical teams, health information
teams, ophthalmic surgical teams, basic medical unit aid programs,
personal-aid programs, emergency-aid programs, paraplegia-aid programs,
and summer outreach programs for medical students of Shantou and
Hong Kong. Through these programs, the medical college and hospitals
can most effectively demonstrate their full capacity in helping
people in poor, remote regions.
As of May 2008, over 984 medical teams had been dispatched
to work in impoverished areas, providing free medical core and
medicine for more than 390,000 patients. Over 10,000 patients
have received free operations, which include over 2,400 cataract
operations and over 1,300 cleft-lip and cleft-palate operations.
Over $10 million worth of free medication has been dispensed.
The Program also holds summer sessions during summer vacation to
provide medical students with valuable work experience. Now, medical
relief for the poor is one of the College's most important charitable
activities, through which international and national medical workers
can demonstrate their love and concern for the poor. |
