Project HOPE Launches Healthy Heart Program in China

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Project HOPE Launches Healthy Heart Program in China

US-based Project HOPE launched on Wednesday a National Healthy Heart Program in China to better treat heart diseases and raise people's awareness of cardiac problem.

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US-based Project HOPE launched on Wednesday a National Healthy Heart Program in China to better treat heart diseases and raise people's awareness of cardiac problem.

The first phase of the program will start Thursday in the Beijing Anzhen Hospital and 45 cardiac physicians from across the country will receive a four-day training.

Heart diseases, coronary heart disease in particular, have become common among the Chinese in the past 10 to 15 years due to increasing pressure from work and the environment, said Huang Jiefu, Chinese vice-minister of health.

In 2000, each case of acute myocardial infarction cost 10,489 yuan (1,264 US dollars) in China, the third only next to colon cancer and stomach cancer.

Huang warned that the number of coronary heart disease patientswould rise four times in the next 30 years without effective control.

Supervised by the China Medic and Doctor Association, the national program will be carried out through partnership with fourmajor Chinese hospitals, which are Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Hua'xiHospital attached to Sichuan University, Guangdong Cardiac Institute and No.1 Hospital attached to Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Mark Anderson, Project HOPE's senior executive director of Medical Operations for Asia Pacific/Middle East, said more than 2,000 Chinese medical workers will be trained in the coming three years.

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