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To help improve the physical conditions of the people in the Hui ethnic minority areas of Yunnan Province， from December 6 to 11， 2005， a 10-member medical team of specialists from the Capital went to the Weishan Yi and Hui Ethnic Minority Autonomous County of Dali Prefecture and Xundian Hui and Yi Ethnic Minority Autonomous County of Kunming City to give free medical treatment for 6 days. This activity was jointly organized by the CPAFFC， the China Friendship Foundation of Peace and Development and the Yunnan Provincial People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and under the auspices of the DPI Terminal of the United Arab Emirates. The contents of the activity include giving free medical treatment to the local Hui and other ethnic minority people， donating test papers and reagents for testing hepatitis to the Weishan Yi and Hui Ethnic Minority Autonomous County Hospital， giving lectures at the Renmin Hospital of Dali Prefecture and Xundian County Hospital and giving training to the key doctors of the local hospitals.

The specialists of the medical team came from departments of internal medicine， surgery， traditional Chinese medicine， gynaecology， pediatrics and ophthalmology of big hospitals of Beijing. All of them are specialists， professors or chief doctors famous in the Capital medical circles and have rich medical knowledge and clinical experience. On December 7， the medical team arrived in Weishan County， the first leg of their free medical treatment activity. There， the specialists of the team gave free medical treatment to about 400 patients， quite a few of whom suffered from difficult and complicated cases of illness. Paediatrician Hu Jin (who is a member of the National People’s Political Consultative Conference) from the Xiyuan Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine did some investigation and research while treating the patients， and found and cured quite a few rare cases of paediatric diseases such as a case of funnel chest which had almost disappeared in the country. Doctor Hu worked out a feasible plan of treatment. Doctor You Guangfa， a pathologist of the Beijing Hospital， made an accurate diagnosis for a cancer patient whose illness could not be definitely diagnosed at the local hospital， and helped local doctors work out an appropriate treatment plan. Doctor Yao Zhihui， a gynaecologist with the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science， with her superb medical skill and rich clinical experience， diagnosed many difficult and complicated cases of gynaecological diseases and won favourable comments from the patients. In Xundian Hui and Yi Ethnic Minority Autonomous County of Kunming， only in half a day the medical team gave free medical treatment to about 250 patients.

To help the local hospitals raise general medical level， the specialists of the medical team gave lectures in the Renmin Hospital of Dali Prefecture and Xundian County Hospital. Doctor Chi Shujing， a specialist in infectious diseases with the Peking University First Hospital， gave a highly appraised lecture on how to rationally use antibiotic. Specialists of the medical team gave professional instructions to the doctors of the local hospitals， passed on the clinical experience they had accumulated for years to the young doctors there and helped them solve difficult clinical problems they encountered.

The free medical treatment activity was well received by the local people. Though it only lasted 6 days， to the people living in the remote minority areas it was a rare chance. The medical team was warmly welcomed wherever they went. In Weishan， a retired worker said， medical teams from the higher level had not been there for years. He said in praise that this free medical treatment activity had provided timely help and hoped such kind of medical teams would come more often. In Xundian， a cadre of the local Bureau of Public Health said， in the past free medical treatment had been offered， but it was the first time that a medical team of such a high level came to Xundian. It was a rare chance not only for ordinary people， but also for them cadres. When learning that specialists from the Capital came here to give free medical treatment， some patients set off early in the morning and walked on the mountainous path for more than ten li to the place waiting for the treatment. At the site of free medical treatment， in front of every specialist there was a long queue of people. As a result， every day the specialists had to prolong the time of their service. This showed that the local medical conditions could not meet the requirement， and that the local people had great trust in the medical team and specialists from the Capital. This activity played a positive role in improving the health condition of the people of ethnic groups in Yunnan and raising the local medical level.