Pic story. disabled doctor brings medical care to residents in China's Xinjiang

Global Times

20th August 2026

Pic story. disabled doctor brings medical care to residents in China's Xinjiang

By Xinhua

Li Chuangye cannot walk on his feet like most people. Instead, he moves forward in a squatting position, lifting his feet in turn with his hands, and swinging his small body, one twist after another.

This 38-year-old doctor hails from a poor family in Henan Province in central China. When Li was seven months old, he contracted polio, a disease that once posed a major health threat to children.

China launched a nationwide anti-polio immunization campaign in the 1960s and made huge progress. It was declared polio-free by the World Health Organization in 2000, but sporadic cases still affected unlucky children like Li in the late 1980s.

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