A nurse interacts with a girl from Afghanistan who has congenital heart disease at The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Nov 6, 2018. [Photo/CHINA NEWS SERVICE] URUMQI -- A total of 27 hospitals in Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, have established telehealth service cooperation with 24 hospitals in central Asian countries. Xinjiang has been sharing telehealth services with the countries in recent years with the help of cloud computing, big data and the internet. The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University launched such services, linking itself as well as some 50 hospitals across China with over ten medical institutions in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. For every foreign patient who uses the telehealth service, we set up health document and do follow-up checks, said Tang Ling, who is responsible for the department of telehealth services at the hospital. A number of hospitals in Xinjiang have established international service departments, staffed with medical personnel who can speak the languages of the neighboring countries to provide convenient services. By the end of 2018, nearly 20,000 visits from patients in nearby countries have been made through such telehealth services. bracelet making supplies24 hour wristbandscool things to do with rubber braceletscustom braceletsrubber wristbands
Pork is sold at a wet market in Hong Kong, Dec 20, 2018. [Photo/IC] HONG KONG -- An African swine fever (ASF) case was confirmed at a slaughterhouse in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and about 6,000 pigs would be culled, a health official of the SAR government said late Friday. Sophia Chan, secretary for food and health of the HKSAR government, said it was confirmed Friday afternoon that ASF virus was found in a pig in the Sheung Shui slaughterhouse in the New Territories. An inter-departmental meeting was held to discuss the response action and follow up work. Chan said, in order to minimize the risk of ASF virus spreading from the slaughterhouse, all pigs in Sheung Shui slaughterhouse would be culled so that thorough cleansing and disinfection could be conducted. The operation of the Sheung Shui slaughterhouse will be suspended until the completion of the disinfection work, Chan said, adding that the SAR government would enhance the surveillance and testing of pigs. wristband-homemake rubber braceletsrubber message braceletsrubber wristbands ebaycustom-silicon-wristbands<%2fcenter>
