The members of the Chinese National Emergency Medical Team on Monday visited the patients who suffered severe injuries during the student-led mass uprising and assured them of better treatment if needed even in China.
The team, comprising 10 medical experts from West China Hospital, one of China鈥檚 premier healthcare institutions, visited the injured patients at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and聽 Hospital and the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation in the morning.
Li Shaopeng, cultural counselor of the China embassy to Bangladesh, told reporters at NIO that the team of doctors observed the types of causalities and improvement of the patients admitted to the hospital.
Directorate General of Health Services director Abu Hussain Md Moinul Ahsan said that the doctors observed patients and the hospital facilities. They would provide healthcare if possible here, otherwise, take the injured to China for better treatment.
NIO officials said that a total of 42 injured patients were undergoing treatment in the hospital who sustained severe eye injuries during the student protest.
Moinul said that Chinese doctors in first phase would provide healthcare to 20 patients and gradually to others who need it.
The medical team also will visit the patients admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and the National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute today.
On Sunday, the team of physicians arrived in Dhaka to provide advanced medical care to the victims.
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen, among others, welcome the doctors and said that the Chinese government has decided to send the National Emergency Medical Team to Bangladesh in response to the invitation of the interim government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus.
