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Chinese medical team's free outreach program offers relief to Rwandans

A medic of the Chinese medical team treats a patient at Gahanga Health Center on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, Sept. 7, 2022. [Huang Wanqing, Xinhua]

Nancile Nyiraneza was nervous and in pain as she stood in line, with a baby strapped on her back, at Gahanga Health Center on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda's capital.

The 40-year-old subsistence farmer was one of the hundreds of Rwandan residents of the Kicukiro district who took advantage of a three-day free medical outreach program set up at the health center starting Tuesday by the Chinese medical team to help those with inadequate access to specialized treatment.

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