Volunteer medical consultation free for Tibetan monks, residents

(ECNS) -- A team of 31 medical workers visited Drepung Monastery in Lhasa to provide volunteer medical consultation to monks and local people on Wednesday.

The team is composed of a Beijing-based aid-Tibet medical team and staff from Lhasa People's Hospital.

More than 300 monks and local people have benefited from these free medical services including blood pressure measurement, medical consultations and pulse readings (a medical skill of traditional Chinese medicine), as well as free medicine valuing 30,000 yuan (about $4,434).