BRI helping transform Pakistan's healthcare sector

ISLAMABAD - The central conference hall of the cardiology department of Mayo Hospital in Pakistan's eastern Lahore city was packed recently with a number of curious cardiologists who were watching live on TV a team of Chinese doctors conducting a non-surgical procedure in the hospital's operation theater.

The hall buzzed with applause from the Pakistani doctors when the leader of the Chinese team, Wu Yongjian, completed the Percutaneous Coronary Intervention procedure on a patient with complications, innovatively and in a comparatively short time.

Wu, director of the cardiology department of the Fuwai Hospital Beijing, had led a team of Chinese cardiologists under the Belt and Road Interventional Cardiology Training Program and participated in academic activities in Pakistan by attending lectures and giving case demonstrations to train Pakistani cardiologists and technicians.