Guitars bring joy to children in hospital

Instructor's music lessons help dissipate young leukemia patients' fears of treatment

Every Tuesday afternoon, ragged guitar music emanates from a classroom in the pediatric hematology department at First Bethune Hospital of Jilin University in Changchun, Jilin province.

Several children who are patients at the hospital gather in the classroom, converted from a doctors' lounge, to learn from music teacher Zhang Yinghao.