Ahead of President Xi Jinping’s visit to India, a team of Indian and Chinese doctors have jointly launched a medical mission to retrace the spirit of “Barefoot Doctors” first undertaken by legendary Dwarakanath Kotnis during China’s revolution headed by Mao Zedong.
‘China India Joint Medical Mission’ was launched at a ceremony jointly held by The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and China-India Friendship Association (CIFA) on Thursday at Kunming city, to mark the 76th anniversary of Arrival of Aid-China India Medical Mission.
A nine-member delegation of Indian doctors, specialists in ENT and cancer treatment, have joined their Chinese counterparts to treat patients at city, district and village levels for a week in China’s Yunnan province.
The joint medical mission, which is the fourth of this kind between the two countries, represents the spirit of the “Barefoot Doctors” undertaken by Dr Kotnis in 1938, K Nagaraj Naidu, Consul General of India in Guangzhou
told PTI.