MacKay hospital sends team on latest humanitarian mission to Ukraine

Taipei, April 28 (CNA) Taiwan's MacKay Memorial Hospital on Monday said it recently sent a team of volunteer medical professionals on the fifth humanitarian mission organized by the hospital to Ukraine, where it provided free medical services to residents in several cities.

The trip, carried out from April 13-27, featured an 11-member team led by Tsai Wei-de (蔡維德), director of the International Medical Service Center (IMSC) at MacKay, the hospital said in a statement.

It included medical professionals specializing in the fields of cardiology, dentistry, oral surgery, emergency medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, it said.

During the two-week period, clinics providing outpatient cardiology care, cardiac ultrasound examinations, dental and oral surgery, and traditional Chinese medicine services were set up at churches in the cities of Zviahel, Korosten, Medzhybizh and Ternopil.

According to MacKay, treatments based on traditional Chinese medicine that included acupuncture and cupping therapy were quite popular.

Meanwhile, the team's doctors also offered three advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) courses at various hospitals and medical schools in Ukraine, while Tsai also held a regional workshop at a hospital in Khmelnytskyi that was attended by more than 100 physicians.

MacKay Memorial Hospital sent its first medical aid support group from Taiwan to Ukraine in April 2022, just two months after the Russian invasion, and it has sent four more since then.