Emily Chan and students bring health to Jilin

This June, Morningside Fellow, Professor Emily Chan, Director of Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), led a group of 28,  including College Member Kevin Liu and four Morningside medical students (Wendy Lam, Hebe Law, Stanley Wong, Maymay Harwood), to a Manchu village in Jilin under CCOUC’s Ethnic Minority Health Project. This project, which trains medical personnel to work in deprived communities via field-based training, aims to empower vulnerable ethnic communities in rural and remote settings to prepare for and mitigate the adverse impact of natural disasters. Trainees in the project are guided as they learn to conduct public health humanitarian activities in rural China. During this particular trip, health messages on disaster preparedness, waste management, treatment of diarrhea, salt intake and hypertension were conveyed in the intervention held in the village and village primary school. The activities were successfully conducted with active participation from the villagers. Positive responses were happily received by the team!