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Tibetan children with heart disease treated

Approximately 1,000 Tibetan children with congenital heart disease will receive free treatment by Chinese Lunar New Year in 2013 as part of a charity program aiming to cure children with the disease in poor families in ethnic-dominated areas, Xinhua News Agency reported. Initiated by the China Charity Federation in February 2011, the program has been brought to the Tibet autonomous region 12 times. Children who have been diagnosed with the disease have been sent for surgery in big hospitals in Beijing and Guangzhou, said Xu Yixuan, honorary vice-president of the federation.

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