Providing support for 'the roof of the world'

An aid program to help the people of the Tibet autonomous region has seen doctors from Beijing and Jiangsu province making a contribution to treating local people and training medical staff, as Hu Yongqi, Da Qiong and Palden Nyima report from Lhasa.

In the early hours of a Sunday in June, Li Hongxia was woken by a phone call from the Todlung Deqen People's Hospital in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet autonomous region. Li jumped out bed, grabbed her coat and rushed to a delivery room to help a woman experiencing a difficult birth.

Although the prenatal examinations had shown no abnormalities, Tsongrig, the expectant mother, began to bleed heavily before delivery. The doctors treating her followed standard procedures because the 25-year-old Tibetan hadn't told them that she'd experienced the same problem when giving birth to her first baby.