China Scene: West

Volunteers cooperate to operate on poor children

A group of 150 impoverished children in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region received free operations for cleft lips and palates from Aug 21 to 24 in Urumqi, the region's capital.

Altogether 67 medical volunteers from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Singapore, as well as Hong Kong SAR, gave the children free post-treatment operations.