China Women's Development Foundation (CWDF)assigned five medical vehicles to go to north China's Liaoning Province recently. A ceremony was held in Shenyang, capital city of Liaoning Province on December 18 to mark the delivery of the vehicles, which were donated by China Construction Bank.

The five medical vehicles, with a total value of 800,000 yuan (U.S. $128,500), will be deployed in five cities across the province, including Shenyang, Dalian, Dandong, Fuxin and Fushun.

All the vehicles are equipped with medical instruments and medicine which will be used to give medical examinations and treatment to women. "Our medical vehicles will go to communities and remote villages to deliver medical service to the local women," said the director of the program.

The Health Express for Mothers project, jointly launched by the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) and the National Working Committee on Children and Women under the State Council in July 2003, and organized by the CWDF, aims to provide medical treatment to disadvantaged women and children in poverty-stricken areas through vehicles fitted out with medical equipment. The charitable project has won great assistance from the public and benefited many underprivileged women as well as their children in terms of holding free health checkups, distributing medical products and providing necessary medical treatment. Liaoning Province started to implement the project at the end of 2012. So far, 18 medical vehicles have deployed in 14 cities across the province and have provided medical services to 200,000 rural women.

(Source: China Women's News/Translated and edited by Women of China)