GLOBALink | Chinese doctors cure women with cervical cancer in Zanzibar

Many local women with cervical cancer in Tanzania's Zanzibar have been cured, thanks to the Chinese medical teams.

Over the last 59 years, the Chinese government has been assigning 32 groups of medical teams to Zanzibar to provide medical services for the local people, train local medical personnel and promote the development of Zanzibar's health care.

Ally Juma Hassan, a local gynecologist at the Mnazi Mmoja hospital, said the Chinese doctors and their local counterparts have been screening women aged between 21 and 65 years old for cervical cancer, adding that those diagnosed with the disease are treated free of charge.

Lemi Shija Mbaya, a mother of two children, was diagnosed with cervical cancer five years ago and had been receiving treatment since then until she fully recovered.

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