Online Desk  : Visiting 10-member Chinese National Emergency Medical Team on Tuesday morning visited the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) to see the patients suffered bullet injuries during the student-led uprising in July-August. The medical team also visited the patients admitted to the National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute. They enquired about the injured patients and assured them of taking to China for better treatment, if needed. The DMCH authorities said the Chinese National Emergency Medical Team enquired about the physical condition of 20 patients at the DMCH. They also note down information about the treatment facilities of the injured.

They also said the Chinese medical team would inform about the measures for providing better treatment soon. Earlier on Monday, the Chinese National Emergency Medical Team visited the patients who suffered severe injuries during the student-led mass uprising. The team, comprising 10 medical specialists from West China Hospital, one of China’s premier healthcare institutions, visited the injured patients at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital and the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation in the morning. Li Shaopeng, cultural counselor of the Embassy of China to Bangladesh, told reporters at NIO that the team of specialist physicians observed the types of causalities and improvement of the patients admitted to the hospital.

Directorate General of Health Services Director Dr Abu Hussain Md Moinul Ahsan said the doctors observed patients and the hospital facilities. They would provide healthcare if possible here, otherwise, take the injured to China for better treatment. NIO officials said that a total of 42 injured patients were undergoing treatment in the hospital who sustained severe eye injuries during the student protest. On Sunday, the team of physicians arrived in Dhaka to provide advanced medical care to the victims. Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen, among others, welcome the doctors and said that the Chinese government had decided to send the National Emergency Medical Team to Bangladesh in response to the invitation of the interim government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus.