Answering a higher call

Health professionals working in remote Gansu province have found that altitude and lack of health awareness are factors that aggravate congenital heart disease, Fang Aiqing reports.

Medical experts taking part in a volunteer program in remote Northwest China are working with the local government and doctors to treat patients with congenital heart problems, an illness that continues to afflict many children and their families in the region.

A pair of twins under 2 years old were brought to the clinic of one local hospital.