The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) recently announced that a Chinese team of ophthalmologists would perform 500 free eye surgeries at a charity healthcare facility in Karachi in January.

The surgeries will be performed by the Chinese ophthalmologists at the PEBS Hospital, a charity facility, in North Karachi from January 10-24, 2018.

This is in pursuance of the collaboration of the medical associations of the two countries to strengthen the Pakistan-China medical corridor.

A delegation of the International Health Exchange and Cooperation, China (IHECC) visited Pakistan to finalise arrangements of the activity.

The four-member Chinese delegation headed by Hu Meiqi, deputy director of the IHECC, also signed a memorandum of understanding with the PMA, and offered that it would bear all expenses in organising the free eye camp as a gift from China to the poor and needy patients of Pakistan.