Restoring health and hope in rural China

Leung Ping-chung, 73, an eminent orthopedics surgeon, and emeritus professor with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, raises funds to help people from China's underdeveloped rural areas to meet their medical requirements.

In 1993, when Leung was already a successful orthopedic surgeon, he initiated a charity program for poor patients in remote parts of the Chinese mainland. During the past few decades, Leung witnessed many patients suffer due to lack of treatment.

According to him, most doctors are in the profession to heal people, but the reason he chose to especially assist rural people on the mainland is because such places had limited access to quality medical care compared to urban centers.