South China's Guangxi sends two medical teams to Africa

Photo taken by a mobile phone shows that Lin Kun, a member of the 21st batch of Chinese medical workers sent to Niger, conducts an electrocardiogram for a patient at the General Hospital of Niger in Niamey, capital of Niger, Aug. 6, 2019. (Xinhua)

NANNING, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Two medical teams departed Nanning, capital city of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Saturday for medical aid missions in Niger and the Comoros, respectively.

Among the 41 medical professionals selected from 12 hospitals in the region, 30 will work in Niger, while others are bound for the Comoros. They will work in the African nations for one and a half years.

Guangxi has been dispatching medical teams to Niger since 1976 and to the Comoros since 1994. So far, 726 medical personnel in 23 teams have provided medical services to more than 1.71 million people in Niger.

A total of 161 medical workers have provided services to over 624,000 local residents in the Comoros.