The China Women's Development Foundation (CWDF) organized an activity of sending vehicles of the Health Express for Mothers project to Huining County, an old revolutionary base in Northwest China's Gansu Province, on December 16, 2021.

An activity of sending vehicles of the Health Express for Mothers project is held in Huining County, Northwest China's Gansu Province, on December 16, 2021.

Ten vehicles were donated to Gansu Province this year, of which four were given to Huining. At the same time, relying on Healthy Countryside, a public welfare project, technical training was carried out for rural doctors. Two rural medical rooms were built and more than 500 health care packages were distributed to women in need.

The activity of sending vehicles of the Health Express for Mothers project is held in Huining County, Northwest China's Gansu Province, on December 16, 2021.

A health care package is sent to a family.

During the activity, there was a lecture on gynecological health with more than 100 women in attendance.

Specialists in ophthalmology and dentistry provided checkups and health consultation services for primary and secondary school students.

This health clinic is being supported by the Healthy Countryside project.

Vehicles of the Health Express for Mothers project

The Health Express for Mothers project has donated 2,945 vehicles and equipment to more than 2,000 medical units at the grassroots level in 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, benefiting 78.7 million people. The project was launched by the CWDF in 2003.

In 2021, the CWDF initiated a series of activities of sending vehicles to old revolutionary areas along the route of the Red Army's Long March. Fifty-three vehicles were donated to these areas, with a value of more than 10 million yuan ($1.5 million). A total of 251 vehicles participated in the activities, covering a total distance of 1.5 million kilometers.

The activities benefited nearly 550,000 people in 2021, and provided medical consultation to more than 222,000 persons and health screening to more than 272,000 persons.  They transported more than 4,000 pregnant and lying-in women, and organized health training to more than 52,000 persons. More than 10,000 copies of reading materials on women's health were distributed.

The CWDF also assisted in building 10 rural medical clinics in Sanming City of Fujian Province, Yan'an City of Shaanxi Province, and Huining County of Gansu Province, and conducted 20 days of training for more than 100 trainee doctors in villages, to help grassroots-level medical workers improve their skills and provide rural people with high-quality medical services.

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(Source: China Women's Development Foundation/ Translated and edited by Women of China)