Mackay Memorial Hospital on Monday said it sent a team of volunteer medical professionals on the hospital’s fifth humanitarian mission to Ukraine, where it provided free medical services to residents in several cities.
The mission, carried out from April 13 to Sunday last week, featured an 11-member team led by Tsai Wei-de (蔡維德), director of the International Medical Service Center at Mackay, the hospital said in a statement.
It included medical professionals specializing in cardiology, dentistry, oral surgery, emergency medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, it said.
Photo courtesy of Mackay Memorial Hospital via CNA
During the two-week mission, clinics providing outpatient cardiology care, cardiac ultrasound examinations, dental and oral surgery, and traditional Chinese medicine services were set up at churches in the cities of Zviahel, Korosten, Medzhybizh and Ternopil.
Treatments based on traditional Chinese medicine that included acupuncture and cupping therapy were quite popular, the hospital said.
The team's doctors also offered three advanced cardiac life support courses at hospitals and medical schools in Ukraine, while Tsai held a regional workshop at a hospital in Khmelnytskyi that was attended by more than 100 physicians.
Mackay Memorial Hospital sent its first medical aid support group from Taiwan to Ukraine in April 2022, just two months after the Russian invasion, and it has sent four more since then.
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