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Chinese eye team performs cataract surgery in Uzbekistan, Xinhua reports
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Xinhua reported on 12 September 2026 that a team from Peking University People’s Hospital sent to Samarkand under a National Health Commission exchange programme planned to perform 300 free cataract operations and to demonstrate surgery for glaucoma and corneal disease. The report quotes the team’s deputy director of ophthalmology saying that more than 200 operations had been completed by the fifth day, and says that as of 2025 the programme had performed free cataract surgery on thousands of patients in Uzbekistan.
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