A Chinese military radiologist is analyzing the image with his foreign counterpart.
By Zhang Peng and Liu Wei
BEIRUT, Feb. 14 (ChinaMil) -- At the invitation of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Medical Office, a team assigned to the medical detachment of 17th Chinese peacekeeping force to Lebanon provided special medical services to the peacekeepers of the UNIFIL Headquarters as well as the UNIFIL’s Sector West. This is the first time that the medical detachment, composed of military doctors specialized in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), dermatology and radiology, has provided medical services outside the Area of Responsibility (AOR).
Equipped with necessary medical devices, the Chinese medical team conducted medical treatment at clinics provided by the UNIFIL Headquarters’ hospital, with a view to meeting long-term medical needs of the peacekeepers of the UNIFIL Headquarters and Sector West. About 100 peacekeepers of Sector West were diagnosed and treated on February 13. The peacekeepers and local people who received the treatment praised medical service and professional competence of Chinese peacekeeping doctors.
The UNIFIL is composed of Eastern and Western Sectors, with one Level 1+ hospital at each sector. The hospital in Sector East is mainly set up by the Chinese peacekeeping medical detachment and is mainly responsible for providing medical services to UN peacekeepers in the area, as well as necessary humanitarian aid to the local people.
Since its deployment in May 2018, the Chinese peacekeeping medical detachment has actively utilized its specialty skill to treat people with common skin diseases such as allergies and infectious diseases caused by Lebanese climate such as humid, rainy winters and hot, sunny summers. The Rehabilitative Physiotherapy Department, which was set up for the first time in the mission area of the UNIFIL, has also carried out TCM treatments including acupuncture, small needle-knife, moxibustion, cupping, massage, etc., effectively treating training injuries of foreign military personnel, including acute muscle injury, chronic muscle strain, various neck, shoulder, lower back and leg pain. As a result, the Chinese medical team has been widely recognized by the troop-contributing countries in the UNIFIL. Brigadier General Antonio Romero, current commander of the UNIFIL’s Sector East, commented that all troop-contributing countries would feel well supported with medical services guaranteed by Chinese military medical team in the mission areas.