STORY: Chinese doctors bring hope, healing to Pakistan with advanced heart treatment
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 23, 2025
DATELINE: Feb. 6, 2025
LENGTH: 00:01:21
LOCATION: Islamabad
CATEGORY: HEALTH

SHOTLIST:
1. various of a Chinese doctor treating a patient
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): AFRAH AMIR, Child with congenital heart defects
3. various of doctors treating patients
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): PAN XIANGBIN, Doctor from Fuwai Hospital in Beijing
5. various of doctors treating patients
6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): PAN XIANGBIN, Doctor from Fuwai Hospital in Beijing
7. various of patients

STORYLINE:

Afrah Amir's eyes glistened with hope and dreams of a brighter future as her doctor handed her a clean bill of health, just a day after undergoing a procedure performed by Chinese doctors to cure her ailing heart in Pakistan's north Rawalpindi city.

"There were six Chinese doctors with warm, kind smiles, who spoke gently to calm me before administering anesthesia. The last thing I remember before drifting off was the image of six angels from a distant land, coming to give me a chance for a beautiful tomorrow," Arfah told Xinhua as her eyes sparkled, envisioning the future ahead.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): AFRAH AMIR, Child with congenital heart defects
"The angels came to correct me for health. I'm so happy to see them, and thanks for coming."

Pan Xiangbin, a doctor from Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, China's capital city, brought a Chinese original and most advanced ultrasound-guided percutaneous intervention technology to treat children suffering from congenital heart defects in Pakistan.

Describing the distinctive features of the new technology, Pan told Xinhua that they have introduced absorbable occluders, a revolutionary alternative to lifelong metal implants.

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): PAN XIANGBIN, Doctor from Fuwai Hospital in Beijing
"The ultrasound-guided percutaneous intervention technology we offer allows procedures to be performed without surgery, radiation, or contrast agents. After the procedure, patients can go home immediately and return to normal activities such as school or work the very next day. This is a highly advanced technology."

In the next stage, Pan plans to take the technology to villages and remote areas of Pakistan to help the children who need medical care.

Pan and his team aim to train more doctors in Pakistan, enabling them to use surgical cars to reach remote areas and save more lives.

SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): PAN XIANGBIN, Doctor from Fuwai Hospital in Beijing
"We will train more doctors for Pakistan. 'It is better to teach people how to fish than to simply give them fish,' so our goal is for Pakistani doctors to master our original technical system, and practice it at a wider scale across the country."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Islamabad.
(XHTV)