Volunteer doctors offer advice on how to boost medical services

A shortage of medical professionals is one of the key problems that is holding back the development of healthcare in Zhugqu county, Gannan Tibet autonomous prefecture, in Northwest China's Gansu province.

And possible solutions came from experts from around China who took part in a volunteer medical program from July 9 to 11.

More than 100 doctors were recently there as part of the "China-hearts" program, which has been organizing them for 10 years, especially in the Tibetan areas of the Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan and Qinghai provinces, as well as in the Tibet autonomous region.