BENIN-COTONOU-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-FREE CATARACT PROJECT
(231115) -- COTONOU, Nov. 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Benin Peng Jingtao (2nd L, front) visits patients with cataract at a hospital in Lokossa, Benin, Nov. 14, 2023. A Chinese medical team of ophthalmologists from China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region launched a project to provide free cataract surgeries in Benin on Tuesday.
The project, launched in the country's southern city of Cotonou, is one of the outcomes of Beninese President Patrice Athanase Guillaume Talon's visit to China in September and aims to implement the bilateral cooperation documents signed between the two countries in health care.
Under the project named "Marche vers la lumière" (Walk towards Light), the six-member Chinese ophthalmology medical team will carry out free surgeries for 200 cataract patients in the Mono-Couffo Departmental Hospital Center in Benin's southwestern city of Lokossa. (Photo by Seraphin Zounyekpe/Xinhua)
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