In the 1990s, I graduated from university and began to work in the Chamdo Tibetan Medicine Hospital, which then was very small, and we could only accept patients with common diseases. If a patient needed a surgery, even a minor surgery like appendicitis, we couldn’t do it. We lacked both equipment and personnel, so we could only transfer the patient to a larger hospital,” said Tsering Yumzong, a deputy to the National People’s Congress and deputy chief physician of the Gastroenterology Department of Chamdo Tibetan Medicine Hospital, Tibet Autonomous Region.

“Now our hospital has visual telemedicine services, and local patients in Chamdo can enjoy advanced medical resources in other provinces and regions at their doorstep through this platform.” Tsering Yumzong said that telemedicine services have greatly reduced patients’ burden from receiving medical treatment.

The Chamdo Tibetan Medicine Hospital now has more than ten departments, including acupuncture and massage, medicated bath, preventive health care and other special departments.

In May 2020, the hospital’s surgery department successfully completed the first Miles radical resection of rectal cancer in its history.