Guangzhou doctors offer free surgeries

Doctors in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, began to provide free surgery on Wednesday to a group of Tibetan children with congenital heart disease.

The operations are part of a charity program launched in May by the China Charity Federation. Free surgery will be provided to Tibetan children with the disease, which can be fatal if untreated.

Five out of the first group of 30 children, ranging in age from 1 to 18 years old, successfully received the surgery on Wednesday at the General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of the People's Liberation Army, said Zhang Weida, director of the hospital's cardiothoracic surgery department.