Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t3.44

v1.c6.s2.t3.44

George Hatem began to learn medicine in 1927 in America, received a medical doctor degree from University of Geneva Switzerland in 1933 and came to Shanghai to investigate the conditions of tropical disease in the same year. In the spring of 1936, with the help of Song Qingling, George Hatem and Edgar Snow arrived in North Shaanxi and engaged in disease prevention, treatment and scientific research for decades in China since then. During the period working in hospitals of Yan’an, George Hatem received Indian doctors including M. Atal, D. S. Kotnis and B. K. Basu who came to support the Anti-Japanese War, and they exchanged ideas mutually and worked together. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, George Hatem became the first foreigner who was approved to join Chinese nationality. As one of the pioneers of the health service of New China, he helped establish Central Institute of Dermatology and Venereology, committed himself to prevention and research of venereal diseases and leprosy and found effective methods to treat syphilis which was suitable for China’s conditions. He set up comprehensive