by Wang Xiaotong

KASHGAR, Feb 10 (China Economic Net) - The 3rd Session of the Belt and Road International General Practitioners Training Course concluded at the First People's Hospital of Kashgar recently. Doctors from Pakistan and Tajikistan, alongside 90 grassroots general practitioners from Kashgar’s medical consortiums, joined the training.

Delivered through special lectures, case analysis and hands-on practice, the session covered the foundations of general practice and clinical thinking, the integrated medical and preventive model for chronic disease management, the prevention and control of zoonotic infectious diseases, collaboration mechanisms between primary and specialist hospitals, first-aid skills for general practitioners, response to public health emergencies as well as health education strategies, upholding the principle of making Chinese medical expertise and experience "learnable, applicable and replicable". During the training, Pakistani doctors also shared their practical experience in primary healthcare delivery under relatively limited resources.

Doctors from China, Pakistan and Tajikistan attend the 3rd Session of the Belt and Road International General Practitioners Training Course. [Photo/The First People's Hospital of Kashgar]

The hospital has hosted two successful sessions since 2024: the first in August 2024 brought together Kyrgyz medical professionals and local general practitioners from Kashgar for customized general practice training, while the second in May 2025, co-hosted with the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, welcomed doctors from Gilgit Baltistan and local practitioners from Kashgar, with Guangdong and Xinjiang experts sharing China’s "prevention-treatment-management" primary healthcare model, which thus laid a solid foundation for China-Pakistan medical cooperation.