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'Shining star campaign' starts

China's Working Committee for the Care of the Next Generation partnered with nine hospitals and academic institutes, including Capital Medical University and Beijing Union Medical College hospital launched a "Shining Star Campaign" in Shanghai earlier this week. It aims to offer more medical care and medicines to children who suffered minimal brain dysfunction, epilepsy and autism in Guangdong, Shandong and Guizhou provinces. They will organize doctors from nine top Chinese hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to take a two month tour to offer diagnosis and treatment services to children patients there during the summer holidays.

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