Published by: World Tibet Network News, Friday, October 4, 1996

Xinhua is the official news agency of People's Republic of China

BEIJING (Oct. 4) XINHUA - A medical center to control tuberculous has been built in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Health News reported Thursday.

The center is the largest medical project in the region and was built with free assistance from the Japanese government. It was high on the list of projects for the Sino-Japanese Free Aid Cooperation in 1994, the paper said.

It includes a number of epidemic disease prevention departments and has hospitals and epidemiology stations in all cities in the region, as well as the No. 2 People's hospital, giving everyone in the region access to it, it added.