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A commonweal activity to commend Chinese doctors and medical teams on overseas medical-aid missions that have made prominent contributions to global medical and health services， especially those battling the Ebola epidemic， was launched in January.
Dubbed the 2015 “Boundless Love — Finding Most Beautiful Doctors of China’s Overseas Medical-Aid Missions”， it was jointly sponsored by the CPAFFC， National Health and Family Planning Commission （NHFPC） and the Health Department of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army （PLA）.
China has sent over 20，000 doctors and nurses on medical-aid missions to more than 60 countries and regions in Asia， Africa， Latin America and Oceania since 1963 when the first medical team went to Africa. Braving hardships， these medical workers displayed high medical skills and noble medical ethics， helping not only to promote medical and health development in the recipient countries and improve public health， but also deepened the friendship between the people of China and these countries. Their actions show the Chinese people love peace and cherish life.
The awards ceremony was held in Beijing on March 24. Ten Chinese medical workers received the “Award of Most Beautiful Doctors of China’s Overseas Medical-Aid Missions”； 10 more won the Nomination Award； the World Health Organization received the “International Health Promotion Award”； Doctor Xu Xun， who died of illness during his mission in Mozambique， received a posthumous Special Award.
CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin， NHFPC Vice Minister Ma Xiaowei and Deputy Chief Liu Dianrong of the Health Department of PLA’s General Logistics Department presented the awards.
The following are brief introductions of the recipients of the main award.
Wang Yu
Wang Yu （male）， associate chief physician， is Deputy Head of the Emergency Department of the First People’s Hospital of Yue-yang， Hunan Province. He went to Sierra Leone in April 2013， working as a member of the 16th medical team on a two-year medical-aid mission. With a strong sense of mission and responsibility and under extremely difficult conditions， he worked with selfless devotion risking his life in the fight against Ebola. He organized lectures on health and prevention of infectious diseases for the staff of the Chinese Embassy and management personnel of Chinese companies， and went， together with specialists of China Centers for Disease Control （CDC） and experts from Hunan， to remote camps of Chinese companies several times to conduct field investigation， report on the epidemic situation and introduce preventive and disease countermeasures through popularizing knowledge on prevention of common infectious diseases such as malaria， typhoid fever， hepatitis and lassa fever， etc. Lu Hongzhou
Lu Hongzhou （male）， chief physician and professor， is Secretary of the CPC Committee of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. He joined the first training team to Sierra Leone in November 2014， working as a medical expert and serving as the deputy secretary of the team’s CPC Branch.
Lu Hongzhou and his teammates worked at the forefront of every epidemic area in Sierra Leone despite the harsh conditions and with no thought to personal safety. He also shared his rich clinical experience in treatment of infectious diseases. His fluent English greatly assisted with training of local teachers. Considering the actual conditions of the trainees， who were grassroots medical workers， public health personnel， primary-level organizers and community volunteers， the training courses were conducted in plain language with a variety of drills and operational practices， imparting key knowledge on the prevention and control of Ebola. He worked out the training program and compiled teaching materials in English， applying China’s experience in prevention and control of acute infectious disease to deal with the Ebola epidemic， which yielded good results and was highly praised by local and international organizations as well as the President of Sierra Leone.
The two Chinese medical teams， with a total of 28 members， trained over 4，000 social workers and education personnel for Ebola prevention and control， including more than 3，200 community medical workers and organizers and over 1，000 professionals， covering urban and rural areas of western Sierra Leone.
Li Jin
Li Jin （male）， chief physician， is Vice President of 302 Military Hospital of China. He served as the head of the first medical-aid team to Sierra Leone from September to November 2014.
In September， he headed a 30-member medical team to carry out the aid mission of prevention and control of Ebola. They courageously rose to the challenge and successfully accomplished the mission. By making full use of his professional advantages， he led the team to carry out work on hospital transformation， process design， personnel training and establishment of regulations according to the disinfection and isolation requirements set for infectious disease hospitals and turned the hospital into a specialized one for admitting patients with deadly infectious diseases within a week. Professional training for local medical staff was carried out to improve their knowledge of prevention and control of infectious diseases and raise their professional skills. The courses were taught by methods of demonstration， group exercises and videos. In all， 68 categories of process specification and rules and regulations with a total of 243 articles have been developed concerning medical record keeping， drug and infection control and emergency treatment， etc. Medical care plans such as reception procedures， diagnosis and treatment regimen， patient education and discharge processes were greatly improved. He worked in the hospital every day and made rounds of the wards every week. He was always the first to enter the in-patient area and took his turns on duty. He not only performed well his role as the team leader， but also as a member， coordinating patient transshipment， specimen collection， body transport and guarantee of water and electricity supply. His exemplary role spurred all the team members. In the two months after the team’s arrival in Sierra Leone， the hospitalization capacity of the target hospital ranked second in the country， with “zero infection” of the work force. The Standard Operation Procedure on Ebola Prevention and Treatment worked out by the team of experts led by Li Jin received high praise from the heads of the Ministry of Health of Sierra Leone and the World Health Organization， and has been applied widely. Li Jin and his medical team， through their outstanding performance， have contributed to the effective control of the spread of Ebola and won high praise from the international community and the Sierra Leone Government. Wang Zhenchang
Wang Zhenchang （male）， chief physician， is Vice President of the Beijing Friendship Hospital. He was the leader of the 24th Medical Team sent to Guinea in August 2014. He led a nine-member team to the Ebola epidemic area and carried out a smooth transition with the 23rd Medical Team.
The medical team fully cooperated with the Ministry of Health of Guinea and the China-Guinea Friendship Hospital （CGFH）. It allocated equipment and instruments it had brought from China to the CGFH， greatly improving its hardware situation. The team built an International Medical Center in the CGFH. Through actively applying for cooperation-fund projects and making the most of China’s medical experts and education resources， the team trained clinicians for Guinea and received high acknowledgement and great support from the Ministry of Health of Guinea and the CGFH president.
Since the outbreak of Ebola， the Chinese Government has sent four batches of medical experts to assist overseas Chinese in Guinea to fight Ebola. Wang Zhenchang， who also served as head of the expert group for training， provided strong support for the experts. He contacted the local government to implement various training programs. Having taken into consideration the actual situation of Chinese companies in Guinea， he added a training program for their Chinese employees in addition to training local people. This greatly ensured health of the Chinese people concerned. Training courses have been organized respectively in the CGFH， the People’s Palace， Ministry of Health， Ministry of International Cooperation and other major functional departments， with effective results. Nearly 2，000 local people have been trained for Ebola prevention and control work.
Wang Jing
Wang Jing （female）， is a nurse of the Beijing Friendship Hospital. She went to Guinea in August 2014 with the 24th medical team， working as nurse-in-charge.
She volunteered to join the first medical team to go to Guinea after the outbreak of the Ebola virus together with nine other members. She was put in charge of the team’s secretarial， publicity and disinfection work. She organized disinfection of their residence regularly. In the hot and humid climate of Guinea， she wore protective clothes and carried equipment weighing more than 10 kilograms on her back to disinfect their living environment. Being the team secretary， she had a lot of paperwork to do every day， involving minutes of the team committee meetings， reports of team affairs and publicity materials. During the outbreak of Ebola， the team members were divided into two groups， working in turns in the China-Guinea Hospital. Wang Jing was in the second group because of the particularity of work in the operation room. She visited the operation room in her spare time to learn about the actual conditions from the paramedics there and imparted her knowledge on nursing to them without reservation. This won her high praise. Zhang Yueming
Zhang Yueming （male）， deputy chief physician， is deputy head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the First Hospital affiliated to Suzhou University. He was a member of the 10th medical team， working in Guyana from June 2012 to June 2014.
Zhang Yueming has solid theoretical foundation， strong professional skills， excellent communication ability and high English proficiency. While in the Georgetown Public Hospital， he worked closely with colleagues， to successfully carry out minimal invasive gynecologic surgeries such as complex laparoscopic ovarian cyst removal and hysterectomy， as well as all kinds of difficult obstetrics and gynecological surgery， setting several records in the medical history of Guyana. His high professional skills， strict working style and good English communication ability won him the trust of the Guyanese people， the hospital and the Ministry of Health. Four months after his arrival in the country， the Ministry of Health of Guyana and the Georgetown Public Hospital invited Zhang Yueming to work as the head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Georgetown Public Hospital， a member of its medical advisory committee and the ministry’s committee on maternal mortality. He took charge of the general management of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and participated in formulation of national health policies. During his tenure， Zhang Yueming vigorously promoted departmental standardization， improved patient treatment， optimized the layout of maternity wards， set guidelines for diagnosis and treatment， established and improved the management system and strengthened medical staff training. His efforts achieved a record low number of maternity deaths in Georgetown Public Hospital， resulting in a sharp drop of the maternity mortality rate of the country. In 2013， Guyana met the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for the first time. His work received high acknowledgment from the Guyanese Government， the public and media.
Zhang Yueming was also appointed as instructor and examiner of the resident doctors’ training program of Guyana’s Ministry of Health and gave public lectures on obstetrics and gynecology for the country’s continuing education to train local doctors together with American colleagues. In September 2013， sent by the Ministry of Health of Guyana， he visited the Cleveland Clinic of the United States on behalf of the Georgetown Hospital to carry out academic exchanges， during which he gave lectures to American resident doctors. Zhang Yueming， together with his teammates， traveled to remote forest areas of Guyana many times to provide free medical consultation and treatment， becoming very popular. His excellent work and outstanding contributions won him high recognition and praise from the Guyanese Government. Before returning home， the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana conferred on him a Certificate of Honor.
Wang Jinhua
Wang Jinhua （female）， chief superintendent nurse， is head nurse of the VIP Clinic of Changzheng Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University. From March 2013 to March 2014， she worked in the Royal Gendarmerie General Hospital of Cambodia on a medical assistance mission and served as head of the expert group of the Changzheng Hospital. Under her leadership， the entire group of experts overcame unimaginable hardships and successfully accomplished the mission of medical aid to Cambodia with high professional skills and noble medical ethics and in the spirit of healing the wounded and rescuing the dying. They won respect and praise from the Cambodian Government and people and were awarded the peace medal and the China-Cambodia Peace and Friendship Medal.
Due to the lack of medical resources， many regular examinations could not be carried out in hospitals in Cambodia. The medical team under the leadership of Wang Jinhua， adapted to local conditions and carried out training in various forms to help local doctors quickly master appropriate techniques and advanced medical concepts. For over a year， the medical team provided treatment for nearly 10，000 patients， cured more than a thousand people suffering from infectious， common and frequently-occurring disease， and successfully performed about 200 operations， including highly difficult ones such as cerebral trauma， radical tumor resection， aneurysm incarcerated operation and reduction of fracture.
Zhai Wenliang
Zhai Wenliang （male）， chief physician， is deputy head of the Department of Orthopedics of the 175th Hospital of the PLA. He was the head of the 16th team sent to Zambia on a medical-aid mission in January 2013. He and his 10 team members worked in the Maina Soko Military Hospital for a year. Faced with backward medical facilities and inadequate sanitation， Zhai Wenliang worked hard to improve and create conditions to popularize medical and health care knowledge and carefully summarized their experience working in Zambia. The book Military Doctor’s Handbook on Medical-Aid Mission to Zambia compiled under his leadership， provides an introduction and multi-aspect analysis of the medical-aid work in Zambia， providing good reference for future medical teams. In his year-long work in Maina Soko Military Hospital， Zhai Wenliang successfully carried out the hospital’s first colonoscopy examination and biopsy， repaired the 24-hour dynamic electrocardiogram （ECG） and the treadmill exercise ECG， put in place the first ultrasonic image and text workstation in Zambia， maintained the water treatment system of hemodialysis for extended service， performed 38 surgical operations and gave emergency treatment to over 100 orthopedic patients. His excellent work won him high recognition from the Zambian government and the military.
Huang Fan
Huang Fan （male）， is a physician of the First Affiliated Hospital of the Anhui Medical University and a member of the first medical-aid team working in South Sudan from December 2012 to January 2014.
The Juba Teaching Hospital where the medical team worked is directly under the Ministry of Health， and the largest and the only teaching hospital in the country. The conditions there are simple and crude. It lacks auxiliary examination instruments and essential drugs. There are high risks of being infected with HIV/AIDS and falciparum malaria.
Immediately on their arrival in January 2013， the medical team joined in the clinical work， making the rounds of the wards， seeing patients at the outpatient department， performing surgical operations and giving emergency treatment to patients. They did all they could to cure every patient.
In June 2013， a patient with a breast tumor was transferred from a local hospital to the Juba Hospital. Her condition was bad as the surface of the tumor had been ulcerated and infected and was bleeding. With limited auxiliary examination equipment and a shortage of blood supply， the Chinese medical team still decided to perform tumor resection on the patient. Huang Fan and another doctor of the team did the operation. The patient received careful nursing from the medical team after the operation and soon recovered. The success of this operation removed the doubts of local medical staff about the technical expertise and group spirit of the Chinese team and received high praises and full acknowledgement of the Juba Teaching Hospital.
Besides working in the Juba Teaching Hospital， Huang Fan and his teammates went to South Sudan’s oil-producing regions and villages to give free medical treatments three times to several hundred patients. Those who needed surgical operations came to the Juba Teaching Hospital to seek further treatment from the Chinese doctors. They all received operations with no case of complications or medical negligence. This has made the medical team known to more people in South Sudan. Huang Fan sorted out a complete set of surgical instruments that suited his usual practice， drafted in English operation consent forms for different categories of surgical operations， and figured out a way to communicate with local patients. He also got local doctors involved in the work and made sure that every operation would have the participation of at least one young backbone local doctor. In this way he hoped they would pass on what they had learned to more doctors in the hospital.
Wang Zhihui
Wang Zhihui （male）， is Director of the General Planning Division of the Health Department of the Logistics Department of the Navy. He is also in charge of the Navy’s overseas medical-aid services. Between 2010 and 2014， by overcoming such difficulties as an ailing father and an unattended child， he worked four times for a total of 352 days on the Navy’s hospital ship Peace Ark which sailed to 18 countries in Africa， Southeast Asia and South Pacific， covering 110，000 kilometers （58，890 nautical miles） on humanitarian medical services and emergency relief missions. The hospital ship provided treatment to 72，812 foreign patients and performed 647 surgical operations. On the last three missions， as the head of the medical group of the Mission Command Post and liaison officer on medical affairs， he made specific plans for organization of medical service and medical relief work and contributed to the success of these missions. He has participated in four missions of the hospital ship out of the total five. As one who helped create and participated in the medical services of the Peace Ark， he made outstanding contribution to the success of the hospital ship’s overseas medical missions.
Dubbed the 2015 “Boundless Love — Finding Most Beautiful Doctors of China’s Overseas Medical-Aid Missions”， it was jointly sponsored by the CPAFFC， National Health and Family Planning Commission （NHFPC） and the Health Department of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army （PLA）.
China has sent over 20，000 doctors and nurses on medical-aid missions to more than 60 countries and regions in Asia， Africa， Latin America and Oceania since 1963 when the first medical team went to Africa. Braving hardships， these medical workers displayed high medical skills and noble medical ethics， helping not only to promote medical and health development in the recipient countries and improve public health， but also deepened the friendship between the people of China and these countries. Their actions show the Chinese people love peace and cherish life.
The awards ceremony was held in Beijing on March 24. Ten Chinese medical workers received the “Award of Most Beautiful Doctors of China’s Overseas Medical-Aid Missions”； 10 more won the Nomination Award； the World Health Organization received the “International Health Promotion Award”； Doctor Xu Xun， who died of illness during his mission in Mozambique， received a posthumous Special Award.
CPAFFC President Li Xiaolin， NHFPC Vice Minister Ma Xiaowei and Deputy Chief Liu Dianrong of the Health Department of PLA’s General Logistics Department presented the awards.
The following are brief introductions of the recipients of the main award.
Wang Yu
Wang Yu （male）， associate chief physician， is Deputy Head of the Emergency Department of the First People’s Hospital of Yue-yang， Hunan Province. He went to Sierra Leone in April 2013， working as a member of the 16th medical team on a two-year medical-aid mission. With a strong sense of mission and responsibility and under extremely difficult conditions， he worked with selfless devotion risking his life in the fight against Ebola. He organized lectures on health and prevention of infectious diseases for the staff of the Chinese Embassy and management personnel of Chinese companies， and went， together with specialists of China Centers for Disease Control （CDC） and experts from Hunan， to remote camps of Chinese companies several times to conduct field investigation， report on the epidemic situation and introduce preventive and disease countermeasures through popularizing knowledge on prevention of common infectious diseases such as malaria， typhoid fever， hepatitis and lassa fever， etc. Lu Hongzhou
Lu Hongzhou （male）， chief physician and professor， is Secretary of the CPC Committee of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. He joined the first training team to Sierra Leone in November 2014， working as a medical expert and serving as the deputy secretary of the team’s CPC Branch.
Lu Hongzhou and his teammates worked at the forefront of every epidemic area in Sierra Leone despite the harsh conditions and with no thought to personal safety. He also shared his rich clinical experience in treatment of infectious diseases. His fluent English greatly assisted with training of local teachers. Considering the actual conditions of the trainees， who were grassroots medical workers， public health personnel， primary-level organizers and community volunteers， the training courses were conducted in plain language with a variety of drills and operational practices， imparting key knowledge on the prevention and control of Ebola. He worked out the training program and compiled teaching materials in English， applying China’s experience in prevention and control of acute infectious disease to deal with the Ebola epidemic， which yielded good results and was highly praised by local and international organizations as well as the President of Sierra Leone.
The two Chinese medical teams， with a total of 28 members， trained over 4，000 social workers and education personnel for Ebola prevention and control， including more than 3，200 community medical workers and organizers and over 1，000 professionals， covering urban and rural areas of western Sierra Leone.
Li Jin
Li Jin （male）， chief physician， is Vice President of 302 Military Hospital of China. He served as the head of the first medical-aid team to Sierra Leone from September to November 2014.
In September， he headed a 30-member medical team to carry out the aid mission of prevention and control of Ebola. They courageously rose to the challenge and successfully accomplished the mission. By making full use of his professional advantages， he led the team to carry out work on hospital transformation， process design， personnel training and establishment of regulations according to the disinfection and isolation requirements set for infectious disease hospitals and turned the hospital into a specialized one for admitting patients with deadly infectious diseases within a week. Professional training for local medical staff was carried out to improve their knowledge of prevention and control of infectious diseases and raise their professional skills. The courses were taught by methods of demonstration， group exercises and videos. In all， 68 categories of process specification and rules and regulations with a total of 243 articles have been developed concerning medical record keeping， drug and infection control and emergency treatment， etc. Medical care plans such as reception procedures， diagnosis and treatment regimen， patient education and discharge processes were greatly improved. He worked in the hospital every day and made rounds of the wards every week. He was always the first to enter the in-patient area and took his turns on duty. He not only performed well his role as the team leader， but also as a member， coordinating patient transshipment， specimen collection， body transport and guarantee of water and electricity supply. His exemplary role spurred all the team members. In the two months after the team’s arrival in Sierra Leone， the hospitalization capacity of the target hospital ranked second in the country， with “zero infection” of the work force. The Standard Operation Procedure on Ebola Prevention and Treatment worked out by the team of experts led by Li Jin received high praise from the heads of the Ministry of Health of Sierra Leone and the World Health Organization， and has been applied widely. Li Jin and his medical team， through their outstanding performance， have contributed to the effective control of the spread of Ebola and won high praise from the international community and the Sierra Leone Government. Wang Zhenchang
Wang Zhenchang （male）， chief physician， is Vice President of the Beijing Friendship Hospital. He was the leader of the 24th Medical Team sent to Guinea in August 2014. He led a nine-member team to the Ebola epidemic area and carried out a smooth transition with the 23rd Medical Team.
The medical team fully cooperated with the Ministry of Health of Guinea and the China-Guinea Friendship Hospital （CGFH）. It allocated equipment and instruments it had brought from China to the CGFH， greatly improving its hardware situation. The team built an International Medical Center in the CGFH. Through actively applying for cooperation-fund projects and making the most of China’s medical experts and education resources， the team trained clinicians for Guinea and received high acknowledgement and great support from the Ministry of Health of Guinea and the CGFH president.
Since the outbreak of Ebola， the Chinese Government has sent four batches of medical experts to assist overseas Chinese in Guinea to fight Ebola. Wang Zhenchang， who also served as head of the expert group for training， provided strong support for the experts. He contacted the local government to implement various training programs. Having taken into consideration the actual situation of Chinese companies in Guinea， he added a training program for their Chinese employees in addition to training local people. This greatly ensured health of the Chinese people concerned. Training courses have been organized respectively in the CGFH， the People’s Palace， Ministry of Health， Ministry of International Cooperation and other major functional departments， with effective results. Nearly 2，000 local people have been trained for Ebola prevention and control work.
Wang Jing
Wang Jing （female）， is a nurse of the Beijing Friendship Hospital. She went to Guinea in August 2014 with the 24th medical team， working as nurse-in-charge.
She volunteered to join the first medical team to go to Guinea after the outbreak of the Ebola virus together with nine other members. She was put in charge of the team’s secretarial， publicity and disinfection work. She organized disinfection of their residence regularly. In the hot and humid climate of Guinea， she wore protective clothes and carried equipment weighing more than 10 kilograms on her back to disinfect their living environment. Being the team secretary， she had a lot of paperwork to do every day， involving minutes of the team committee meetings， reports of team affairs and publicity materials. During the outbreak of Ebola， the team members were divided into two groups， working in turns in the China-Guinea Hospital. Wang Jing was in the second group because of the particularity of work in the operation room. She visited the operation room in her spare time to learn about the actual conditions from the paramedics there and imparted her knowledge on nursing to them without reservation. This won her high praise. Zhang Yueming
Zhang Yueming （male）， deputy chief physician， is deputy head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the First Hospital affiliated to Suzhou University. He was a member of the 10th medical team， working in Guyana from June 2012 to June 2014.
Zhang Yueming has solid theoretical foundation， strong professional skills， excellent communication ability and high English proficiency. While in the Georgetown Public Hospital， he worked closely with colleagues， to successfully carry out minimal invasive gynecologic surgeries such as complex laparoscopic ovarian cyst removal and hysterectomy， as well as all kinds of difficult obstetrics and gynecological surgery， setting several records in the medical history of Guyana. His high professional skills， strict working style and good English communication ability won him the trust of the Guyanese people， the hospital and the Ministry of Health. Four months after his arrival in the country， the Ministry of Health of Guyana and the Georgetown Public Hospital invited Zhang Yueming to work as the head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Georgetown Public Hospital， a member of its medical advisory committee and the ministry’s committee on maternal mortality. He took charge of the general management of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and participated in formulation of national health policies. During his tenure， Zhang Yueming vigorously promoted departmental standardization， improved patient treatment， optimized the layout of maternity wards， set guidelines for diagnosis and treatment， established and improved the management system and strengthened medical staff training. His efforts achieved a record low number of maternity deaths in Georgetown Public Hospital， resulting in a sharp drop of the maternity mortality rate of the country. In 2013， Guyana met the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for the first time. His work received high acknowledgment from the Guyanese Government， the public and media.
Zhang Yueming was also appointed as instructor and examiner of the resident doctors’ training program of Guyana’s Ministry of Health and gave public lectures on obstetrics and gynecology for the country’s continuing education to train local doctors together with American colleagues. In September 2013， sent by the Ministry of Health of Guyana， he visited the Cleveland Clinic of the United States on behalf of the Georgetown Hospital to carry out academic exchanges， during which he gave lectures to American resident doctors. Zhang Yueming， together with his teammates， traveled to remote forest areas of Guyana many times to provide free medical consultation and treatment， becoming very popular. His excellent work and outstanding contributions won him high recognition and praise from the Guyanese Government. Before returning home， the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana conferred on him a Certificate of Honor.
Wang Jinhua
Wang Jinhua （female）， chief superintendent nurse， is head nurse of the VIP Clinic of Changzheng Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University. From March 2013 to March 2014， she worked in the Royal Gendarmerie General Hospital of Cambodia on a medical assistance mission and served as head of the expert group of the Changzheng Hospital. Under her leadership， the entire group of experts overcame unimaginable hardships and successfully accomplished the mission of medical aid to Cambodia with high professional skills and noble medical ethics and in the spirit of healing the wounded and rescuing the dying. They won respect and praise from the Cambodian Government and people and were awarded the peace medal and the China-Cambodia Peace and Friendship Medal.
Due to the lack of medical resources， many regular examinations could not be carried out in hospitals in Cambodia. The medical team under the leadership of Wang Jinhua， adapted to local conditions and carried out training in various forms to help local doctors quickly master appropriate techniques and advanced medical concepts. For over a year， the medical team provided treatment for nearly 10，000 patients， cured more than a thousand people suffering from infectious， common and frequently-occurring disease， and successfully performed about 200 operations， including highly difficult ones such as cerebral trauma， radical tumor resection， aneurysm incarcerated operation and reduction of fracture.
Zhai Wenliang
Zhai Wenliang （male）， chief physician， is deputy head of the Department of Orthopedics of the 175th Hospital of the PLA. He was the head of the 16th team sent to Zambia on a medical-aid mission in January 2013. He and his 10 team members worked in the Maina Soko Military Hospital for a year. Faced with backward medical facilities and inadequate sanitation， Zhai Wenliang worked hard to improve and create conditions to popularize medical and health care knowledge and carefully summarized their experience working in Zambia. The book Military Doctor’s Handbook on Medical-Aid Mission to Zambia compiled under his leadership， provides an introduction and multi-aspect analysis of the medical-aid work in Zambia， providing good reference for future medical teams. In his year-long work in Maina Soko Military Hospital， Zhai Wenliang successfully carried out the hospital’s first colonoscopy examination and biopsy， repaired the 24-hour dynamic electrocardiogram （ECG） and the treadmill exercise ECG， put in place the first ultrasonic image and text workstation in Zambia， maintained the water treatment system of hemodialysis for extended service， performed 38 surgical operations and gave emergency treatment to over 100 orthopedic patients. His excellent work won him high recognition from the Zambian government and the military.
Huang Fan
Huang Fan （male）， is a physician of the First Affiliated Hospital of the Anhui Medical University and a member of the first medical-aid team working in South Sudan from December 2012 to January 2014.
The Juba Teaching Hospital where the medical team worked is directly under the Ministry of Health， and the largest and the only teaching hospital in the country. The conditions there are simple and crude. It lacks auxiliary examination instruments and essential drugs. There are high risks of being infected with HIV/AIDS and falciparum malaria.
Immediately on their arrival in January 2013， the medical team joined in the clinical work， making the rounds of the wards， seeing patients at the outpatient department， performing surgical operations and giving emergency treatment to patients. They did all they could to cure every patient.
In June 2013， a patient with a breast tumor was transferred from a local hospital to the Juba Hospital. Her condition was bad as the surface of the tumor had been ulcerated and infected and was bleeding. With limited auxiliary examination equipment and a shortage of blood supply， the Chinese medical team still decided to perform tumor resection on the patient. Huang Fan and another doctor of the team did the operation. The patient received careful nursing from the medical team after the operation and soon recovered. The success of this operation removed the doubts of local medical staff about the technical expertise and group spirit of the Chinese team and received high praises and full acknowledgement of the Juba Teaching Hospital.
Besides working in the Juba Teaching Hospital， Huang Fan and his teammates went to South Sudan’s oil-producing regions and villages to give free medical treatments three times to several hundred patients. Those who needed surgical operations came to the Juba Teaching Hospital to seek further treatment from the Chinese doctors. They all received operations with no case of complications or medical negligence. This has made the medical team known to more people in South Sudan. Huang Fan sorted out a complete set of surgical instruments that suited his usual practice， drafted in English operation consent forms for different categories of surgical operations， and figured out a way to communicate with local patients. He also got local doctors involved in the work and made sure that every operation would have the participation of at least one young backbone local doctor. In this way he hoped they would pass on what they had learned to more doctors in the hospital.
Wang Zhihui
Wang Zhihui （male）， is Director of the General Planning Division of the Health Department of the Logistics Department of the Navy. He is also in charge of the Navy’s overseas medical-aid services. Between 2010 and 2014， by overcoming such difficulties as an ailing father and an unattended child， he worked four times for a total of 352 days on the Navy’s hospital ship Peace Ark which sailed to 18 countries in Africa， Southeast Asia and South Pacific， covering 110，000 kilometers （58，890 nautical miles） on humanitarian medical services and emergency relief missions. The hospital ship provided treatment to 72，812 foreign patients and performed 647 surgical operations. On the last three missions， as the head of the medical group of the Mission Command Post and liaison officer on medical affairs， he made specific plans for organization of medical service and medical relief work and contributed to the success of these missions. He has participated in four missions of the hospital ship out of the total five. As one who helped create and participated in the medical services of the Peace Ark， he made outstanding contribution to the success of the hospital ship’s overseas medical missions.