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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> Held ―Health Express‖<br />

Whip-round on Campus<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2004—03—17<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=79486416<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Mar.17th: The ―Health Express‖ whip-round activity aimed<br />

at curing cataract patients started on March 9th on campus <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong>, which is a<br />

commonweal activity brought in by Youth Volunteers Association <strong>of</strong> Guanghua<br />

School <strong>of</strong> Management and Love Association together. The whip-round spots were<br />

set in Triangle Area and other places. The organizer said that all the money donated<br />

by the donators would be used in the great project <strong>of</strong> curing cataract patients.<br />

The publicities <strong>of</strong>fered by GSM (Guanghua School <strong>of</strong> Management) Youth<br />

Volunteers Association introduced the situation <strong>of</strong> cataract patients in mainland <strong>of</strong><br />

China. According to the statistics <strong>of</strong> Ministry <strong>of</strong> Health <strong>of</strong> China, there are about 4<br />

million cataract patients, and the number <strong>of</strong> new patients increased by 400 thousand<br />

each year. Cataract is a kind <strong>of</strong> disease that usually happens to aged people, but the<br />

postnatal injury or disease and connatural factors can also result this disease. In the<br />

remote and impoverished country area, the portion <strong>of</strong> the middle-aged and youth<br />

with cataract disease is far larger than the counterpart in the city, because <strong>of</strong> the bad<br />

sanitation condition, too much physical labor and the weak eugenic consciousness.<br />

More than half patients live in the remote areas; they can‘t receive timely treatments<br />

because <strong>of</strong> poverty and so live in the darkness for a long time.<br />

―Health Express‖ was initiated by celebrities <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong, such as Ms. Nellie Fong<br />

and so on, at the time <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong returned to China in 1997. They advised giving<br />

a present to the mainland <strong>of</strong> China, which can benefit the people living in poverty in<br />

the long run. Enlightened by the idea <strong>of</strong> Indian ―Life Express‖, they decided to recruit<br />

money to build a train hospital and delivered free medical treatment. Considering<br />

that cataract is a disease <strong>of</strong> high frequency and may induce much pain, the train<br />

hospital was oriented to be an eye hospital special for cataract patients after<br />

discussion with Ministry <strong>of</strong> Health <strong>of</strong> China.<br />

The first ―Health Express‖ with special design set out on July 1st, 1997 from Kowloon<br />

station <strong>of</strong> Hong Kong. More and more ―Healthiness Expresses‖ are built and put into<br />

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