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Chinese, Malaysian military medical staff provide gratuitous treatment during joint military exercise

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2015-09-21 16:47Xinhua Editor: Mo Hong'e

Gratuitous treatment was provided here on Sunday to the local residents by the Chinese and Malaysian military medial staff during their first joint military exercise, coded "Peace and Friendship 2015."

The activity took place at the Mah Meri Cultural Village, where Mah Meri, an ethnic group native to western part of Peninsular Malaysia, lives. Mah Meri is one of the 18 aboriginal people groups named by the Malaysian government.

During the activity, not only did the medical detachments from the Chinese and Malaysian armies provide gratuitous treatment to the local residents coming to the filed clinic, but also they paid a visit to the houses of some patients who had difficulty in moving around and gave them treatment at home.

Huang Haitao, assistant to the Chinese medical detachment, said that the Chinese side dispatched 46 doctors and nurses to participate in the activity and the gratuitous treatment covered various medical subjects including the traditional Chinese medicine.

Most local residents have never see doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, and the activity gave them an opportunity to learn more about it.

Sixty-year-old local resident Karim Abdullah has suffered from rheumatoid disease. When talking about his recurrent illness, which cost him much money but still shows not sign of abatement, Karim even started to cry out of sadness. Chinese orthopedic doctor Liu Shaohua gave a careful examination to him and prescribed medicines including the Chinese traditional medicine.

The Chinese and Malaysian military medical detachments carried out joint exercises on Monday, while the engineer teams of the two sides also launched exercises on Monday.

  

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