Chinese eye doctors arrive in Jamaica for aid

A group of Chinese oculists arrived Sunday in the Caribbean state of Jamaica to provide free medical service here as part of a Chinese government's foreign aid project.

According to local daily Jamaica Gleaner, the six eye doctors and two nurses from China are expected to perform at least 200 cataract operations and offer outpatient service, beginning on Monday, in a state hospital in the Jamaican capital of Kingston, during their 10-day stay in the country.

The Chinese aid mission will also donate medical equipment and supplies worth 390,000 U.S. dollars to the Ophthalmology Department of the Jamaican hospital.

Before this stop, these Chinese medical professionals had traveled to Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica and Guyana, to treat eye disorders there.

China's Bright Journey project, which has since 2003 benefited dozens of developing countries in Asia and Africa, focuses now on the Caribbean region, as a result of a meeting held between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Caribbean leaders two years ago in Trinidad and Tobago. Endi