A Pakistani doctor from Jhelum has won appreciation for volunteering to treat coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China.
Dr Usman, a Pakistani teacher at Changsha Medical College, is the first foreign doctor who stepped forward to volunteer to treat infected people in Wuhan.
The Chinese Embassy thanked the doctor saying, “We appreciate Dr Muhammad Usman Janjua, a foreign doctor to join the fight against coronavirus in China as a volunteer. He is a teacher from Changsha Medical University, China and hails from Deena, Jhelum, Pakistan”.
On January 27, Usman formally applied to the Foreign Experts Service office of the Hunan Science and Technology department, hoping that he could go to the Wuhan for medical assistance.
Usman told media that when the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus began in China, he kept an eye on the continuously updated figures and situations every day.
“The staff of the foreign expert service sent me the methods of epidemic prevention every day asking me to protect myself and solving many difficulties for me.”
Usman, 29, had dreamed of becoming a doctor since he was a child. He graduated from Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine with a bachelor’s degree in 2012 and returned to Pakistan to practice medicine for four years.
During the four years of stay in his hometown, he had always been unable to forget China and Changsha. He said that China had provided him with good opportunities for education and employment.
In 2016, he returned to China and began studying for a Master’s degree in medicine at Central South University in Changsha. After graduation, he became a foreign teacher at Changsha Medical College.
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