2018年CRI Chinese doctors help Zimbabweans battle cervical cancer

 

A group of Chinese doctors is providing voluntary medical services in a local hospital in Zimbabwe, helping¹ to prevent and treat cervical cancer that has been ravaging² the South African country for a long time.

Our correspondent Gao Junya brings the details from the country's capital Harare.

The 10-member medical team includes obstetrics and gynecology experts, pathologists and senior midwives from Hunan province. 

They are in Harare to carry out a 3-week voluntary medical service, as part of a cooperation program with Harare's Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals to treat and prevent cervical cancer.

The Chinese medical team has also donated a bunch of medical equipment that is essential to treat the disease.

At a ceremony to kick off the project, Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe Huang Ping said the program is part of China's larger efforts to help improve health conditions in developing countries: 

"The project that we are launching is a follow up of yet another commitment made by Chinese President Xi Jinping to implement³ the one-hundred projects of maternal⁴ and child health in the developing countries and the China-Africa Public Health Cooperation Program announced in the Johannesburg Summit of China-Africa Cooperation Forum⁵."

It's expected that around a thousand patients will be given cervical cancer screening and those diagnosed with the disease will receive operations by the experienced Chinese doctors.

It's being reported that cervical cancer remains⁶ one of the most commonly found cancers among Zimbabwean women, accounting⁷ for 33 percent of cancer cases in women.

Figures are suggesting over 22-hundred Zimbabwe women are diagnosed with the disease every year and over 14-hundred die from it.

David Parirenyatwa, head of Zimbabwe's Ministry⁸ of Health and Child Care, says China's help is quite in time to ensure a healthy Zimbabwe for a long run:

"I would like to commend the gesture made by the People's Republic of China to partner Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals as part of our national cervical cancer program. We appreciate the equipment that you are donating to the origination, the manpower you have organized for this camp and all other resources you have channeled towards this program."

Besides this voluntary medical team, Hunan Province has been distributing medical teams to Zimbabwe regularly for over 30 years. 

140 doctors and experts have offered this assistance over the years to help improve local medical services and save people's lives.

Parirenyatwa says the contributions of the Chinese medical teams are tremendous: 

"The Chinese teams that have come here have been extremely ethical⁹, very professional. They've given us service. They have been with us for many years and we're very proud of that association."

Over the past 20 years, the Chinese government has constructed 2 hospitals for Zimbabwe and has donated medical equipment worth of 14 million yuan.

The Chinese government is also planning to help build two more hospitals in Zimbabwe.

For CRI, I'm Gao Junya reporting from Harare Zimbabwe.

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 ravaging   

毁坏( ravage的现在分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫

参考例句：

• It is believed that in fatigue there is a repeated process of ravaging the material. 据认为，在疲劳中，有一个使材料毁坏的重复过程。
• I was able to capture the lion that was ravaging through town. 我能逮住正在城里肆虐的那头狮子。

3 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

4 maternal   

adj.母亲的，母亲般的，母系的，母方的

参考例句：

• He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
• The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。

5 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

6 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

7 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

8 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

9 ethical   

adj.伦理的，道德的，合乎道德的

参考例句：

• It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
• It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。