Altogether 35 patients from Dechen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province arrived in Beijing for professional treatments for free on Aug. 28, 2014.

The 35 Tibetan patients include 30 children with congenital heart disease and five with cerebral palsy and orthopedic disorders, among whom the youngest one is less than one year old and the most senior one is over 40 years old. They would leave for different famous hospitals for free treatments.

According to the "Chinese Heart", the charity project providing free treatments, these 35 patients are expected to be cured and recovered in about two weeks, and their family members accompanying them would also enjoy free accommodation during their staying in Beijing.

A charity clinic project conducted by "Chinese Heart" was launched since July 9, 2014 in Dechen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the only Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southeast China’s Yunnan Province. Over 450 staff including medical volunteers, social philanthropists and university students visited deeply into the 26 charity clinics points of towns and temples and provided direct illness diagnosis and healthy consultation for local residents in Tibetan inhabited areas.

Entitled "Chinese heart", the public benefit project mainly aims at helping patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases from remote and poverty-stricken areas of China with the help of medical experts of national level and social loving people.

Except for the normal cardiovascular diseases of adults in Tibet, the charity project also pays attention on local Tibetan children and teenagers with congenital heart disease, since the high altitude and severe natural environment of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau，they are much easier to suffer from the disease than their peers of inland China.

The project was firstly launched on May 16, 2008, several days after the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake occurred in Ngapa Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Sichuan Province.

During the past six years the project has organized over 5,000 medical volunteers to Tibet Autonomous Region as well as Tibetan inhabited areas in Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan Provinces, provided medical service for over 300,000 locals and cured over 300 children patients with congenital heart disease.

Photo shows the welcome ceremony for the 35 patients and their family members. [Photo/ China Tibet Online]

Photo shows a pair of mother and daughter, who are happy to visit Beijing. [Photo/ China Tibet Online]

Photo shows a card brought by a child patient. [Photo/ China Tibet Online]