Doctors train to treat hypertension

A center to train doctors in how to intervene in cases of hypertension has opened in Guizhou province.

The first provincial-level center in China, it was set up to help residents of the relatively poor province avoid and manage the condition.

Yun Zhenqiu, director of the hypertension department at Anzhen Hospital in Beijing, who is also deputy director of the Chinese Rural Health Association, was brought in to head the center.