KARACHI: The Chinese Medical Association (CMA) has vowed to assist the health sector in Pakistan and in this connection a team of Chinese eye specialists will establish eye camps in the country this year. This was stated by Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Secretary General Dr S M Qaiser Sajjad while talking to Daily Times on Sunday. A three-member PMA delegation, including Dr Qaiser, last week visited China on an invitation of the Chinese Medical Association. The PMA delegation also attended a two-day conference held in Nanjing, capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province. The conference was also attended by medical associations from 19 countries, including United States, United Kingdom, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka. The PMA delegation also held meetings with the CMA officials on the sidelines of the conference as part of ‘medical corridor’. Last year, Pakistan and China set up a ‘medical corridor’ during the first-ever Pak-China Med Con (medical congress), a joint congress of PMA and CMA, held in Karachi. “Chinese Medical Association wants to set up free eye camps in Pakistan regarding cataract (motiya) operation. Although the dates and venues are not finalised yet, but it is expected that the camps would be established by June this year,” the PMA secretary general added. These eye camps would be a part of medical corridor established between the two countries. Chinese government would help CMA in establishing the eye camps, he added. According to Dr Sajjad, under ‘One Belt, One Road’, six Pakistani doctors would also visit China this year on an invitation by the CMA and facilitated by the Chinese government. The doctors would be provided research and training in various fields. During the meeting, it was also decided that the next meeting of the ‘medical corridor’ would be held in China next year.