The Tzu Chi medical mission in Pursat province, Cambodia last 27 to 29 March saw volunteer doctors from the humanitarian group’s chapters in the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan perform cataract surgery of patients for free. They also did minor operations to remove benign cysts from other patients.

It was not only poor Cambodian patients who benefited from the medical mission. Local volunteer medical students and professionals also learned surgical techniques from the veteran doctors. Among the seasoned doctors was Tzu Chi Medical Foundation Philippines vice president Dr. Robert Sy.

Sy taught the younger medical volunteers his techniques.

“Every time I went on a medical mission, if I have time, I always tell the doctors and the nurse to come around me. And I gave lecture on the suture, the technique, and the secret that I learned through the years I impart to them,” Sy said during the medical mission organized by the Tzu Chi International Medical Associations of Taiwan and Singapore.

One of the local volunteers was thankful to Siy and Tzu Chi for learning the technique of removing fat during operation.