Sichuan hospital learns to battle tapeworms

Professor Wang Wentao hurried to the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Hospital in Sichuan province last week to be the leading surgeon operating on a Tibetan teenager suffering from a tapeworm infection.

"The Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Hospital's diagnosis that the echinococcosis had affected his liver, duodenum and pancreas was correct. It needed my help because the operation was too complicated," said Wang, deputy chief of the liver surgery department of the West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu, Sichuan.

If not for the complexity of the teenager's case, he would not have hurried to the Ganzi hospital, which is about seven hours' car ride from Chengdu, he said.