•  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  
Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

Exile in Limbo - Watching Home Burn from a Distance - Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq In the Baharka district, the daily existence of Syrian Kurdish refugees is defined by a haunting duality. While laborers attempt to focus on their work in bakeries and construction sites, in local clinics, doctors attend to patients whose physical ailments are often deepened by the psychological trauma of the war, checking vitals while the sick anxiously await updates from home.Inside the shelters, even the children have replaced cartoons with graphic news feeds, gathering around small screens to watch the destruction of a homeland they can barely remember. Whether in a clinic, a workshop, or a home, thousands here live a surreal reality physically safe in the Kurdistan Region, but mentally living on the frontlines of the conflict in Rojava and Aleppo Iraq on January 11, 2026. Photo by Othman Sabur Rashid/ABACA

  •  

Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners hold medical camp in Kenya

STORY: Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners hold medical camp in Kenya SHOOTING TIME: April 25, 2024 DATELINE: April 26, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:52 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the medical camp 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JUDY WANJIRU, Construction industry practitioner 3. various of the medical camp 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XU HOUPING, Vice president of the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southwest Medical University 5. various of training at the medical camp STORYLINE: Kenya on Thursday hosted prominent traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners from southwest China's Sichuan Province, who offered a range of medical services to Chinese nationals living in the East African country. The six Chinese doctors specialize in diverse fields, including dermatology, orthopedics, endocrinology, cervical spondylopathy, and age-related ailments. Hosted by the Kenya Sichuan-Chongqing General Chamber of Commerce and the China General Chamber of Commerce

  •  

Chinese medical team provides free service for elderly in Kiribati

STORY: Chinese medical team provides free service for elderly in Kiribati SHOOTING TIME: April 20, 2024 DATELINE: April 21, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: Tarawa CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chinese medical team providing free service for the elderly in Kiribati STORYLINE: The third batch of the Chinese medical team to Kiribati carried out a complimentary clinic service on Saturday for the elderly citizens in the capital city Tarawa. More than 40 elderly people received comprehensive health assessments, including monitoring of vital signs such as blood pressure, blood glucose, and blood oxygen levels. With the combination of Western and Chinese medicine methods, the medical team provided pulse diagnosis, acupuncture, massage, and cardiopulmonary auscultation, as well as educational sessions on the symptoms, prevention strategies, treatment options, and medication precautions for common local ailments such as hypertension, bone and joint pain, and eye disorders. Xinhua News Agency correspond

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A man’s back seen with leeches sucking his blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A man’s face seen with leeches sucking his blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A woman's hands seen with leeches sucking her blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A man’s face seen with leeches sucking his blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A boy’s belly seen with leeches sucking his blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A man’s ear seen with leeches sucking his blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leeches which sucked blood from the patients are seen on a handkerchief, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Patients receive leech therapy from a practitioner, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A child receives leech therapy from a practitioner, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

An elderly man is seen with a leech on his face sucking his blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Woman's feet seen with leeches sucking her blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A man’s face seen with leeches sucking his blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

A woman's face seen with leeches sucking her blood, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Patients receive leech therapy from a practitioner, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Patients receive leech therapy from a practitioner, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Leech Therapy Treatments - India

Leech Therapy Treatments - India

An elderly man receives leech therapy from a practitioner, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather at Hazratbal, the outskirts of Srinagar, in Srinagar, India on March 21, 2023 to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Photo by Firdous Nazir/Eyepix Group/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  

Traditional Chinese medicine brings hope to Zimbabwean patients

STORY: Traditional Chinese medicine brings hope to Zimbabwean patients SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 29, 2024 DATELINE: March 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:21 LOCATION: Harare CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of patients 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (ENGLISH): MARTHA TSIGA, Patient 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (ENGLISH) MARTHA TSIGA, Patient 4. various of acupuncture treatment 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (ENGLISH): CHARLOTTE MUZIRI, Volunteer at TCM clinic 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (ENGLISH): WANG ZHIMING, TCM doctor STORYLINE: In Zimbabwe, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been providing hope for patients who are seeking relief from various ailments. Every working day, a number of patients would come to the Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare for acupuncture treatment. SOUNDBITE 1 (ENGLISH): MARTHA TSIGA, Patient "Once those needles were just inserted, I just relaxed and I slept, just for those 10 to 15 minutes, and my body was just responding positively. So it's like magical, but very very important and very very goo

  •  

Chinese medical teams lauded for advancing healthcare in Tanzania

STORY: Chinese medical teams lauded for advancing healthcare in Tanzania SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 9, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 11, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:15 LOCATION: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SUO PENG, Charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Tanzania 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BOAZ YONAH, Representative from Mbeya Region Referral Hospital STORYLINE: The government of Tanzania on Tuesday thanked the Chinese government for dispatching medical teams to help improve healthcare for people in the East African country. A ceremony was held to bid farewell to the 26th Chinese medical team and welcome the 27th group. Over the last six decades, more than 1,500 members of the Chinese medical team have been dispatched to Tanzania, treating about 20 million Tanzanians suffering from various ailments. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SUO PENG, Charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Tanzania "Up to now, 32 teams have served in Zanzibar and 27 Chinese medical

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP Gathering - Dhaka

Pro-BNP lawyers gather in a protest and formed a human chain in front of the Supreme Court demanding the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) Chairperson Khaleda Zia's constitutional right to receive advanced treatment abroad be confirmed , in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 11, 2023. Khaleda Zia was sent to Old Dhaka Central Jail she was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case by a lower court on February 8, 2018. On March 25, 2020, the BNP chief was released from jail upon an executive order on some conditions considering her age and humanitarian ground following an application by her family. Khaleda has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems. Photo by Suvra Kanti Das/ABACAPRESS.COM

  •  
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo performs acupuncture therapy to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 14, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with h

  •  
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo performs acupuncture therapy to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with h

  •  
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo (R) performs acupuncture therapy with his assistant to a patient at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limi

  •  
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC-BANGUI-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-ACUPUNCTURIST

(230216) -- BANGUI, Feb. 16, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yabo plays billiards after work in Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb. 13, 2023. Hao Yabo, a Chinese doctor born in the 1990s and a member of the 19th Chinese medical team dispatched to the Central African Republic, traveled across seven time zones in June of 2022 to Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. The following months saw him and his teammates fully engaged in their medical aid mission to this country, providing services to local people and winning friends. As an acupuncturist, Hao has been performing a variety of treatments for local patients to cure as many ailments as possible. His superb medical skills have not only won himself compliments from patients, but also turned the patients fans of acupuncture. More often than not, even native doctors approached to him for medical advice and treatments. Living in a different time zone, Hao, who happens to be a new father, has very limited time to chat with his family via mobile phone af

  • Main
  • Top
  • Editorial
  • Creative
  • About Us
  • About ILG
  • Terms of use
  • Company
  • BEHIND
  • Price List
  • Single Plan
  • Monthly Plan
  • Services
  • Shooting
  • Rights Clearance
  • Support
  • FAQ
  • How To Buy
  • Contact Us
  • Become a Partner

© KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

All Rights Reserved.

  • Editorial
  • Olympics
  • News
  • Sports
  • Japan
  • Tech
  • Royal
  • Disaster
  • NorthKorea
  • Old Japan
  • SNS
  • Creative
  • Food
  • Japan
  • Landscape
  • Animal
  • Popular
  • #Ukraine
  • #Thailand
  • #coronavirus
  • #N. Korea
  • #China
  • #Russia
  • #Ukraine
  • #Thailand
  • #coronavirus
  • #N. Korea
  • #China
  • #Russia
  • Food
  • Japan
  • Landscape
  • Animal
  • Olympics
  • News
  • Sports
  • Japan
  • Tech
  • Royal
  • Disaster
  • NorthKorea
  • Old Japan
  • SNS