“It’s a tiring journey but worthy”, doctor Lin said
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/03/27
By: Alicia Nguyen, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Teams of doctors from several Taiwan hospitals recently traveled
(By Central News Agency)
to remote regions of the Amazon rain forest to provide free consultations and diagnoses to Peruvian Indian tribes.
Starting from February 10, Taiwan hospitals such as Asia University Hospital (AUH), Kaohsiung Medical University, I-Shou University Hospitals along with local medical units participated in the international medical mission in Peru.
In an interview with CNA, the director of AUH’s neurosurgery department, Lin Chih-lung (林志隆), said the medical mission was harsh and tiring due to the long distance which required the team to use different means of transportation to arrive at the destination.
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