Kazakh-born ophtalmologist honored with Chinese Government’s Friendship Award
Kazakhstani ophthalmologist Saulebek Kabylbekov received the Chinese Government’s Friendship Award at the ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Kazinform News Agency reports.
Saulebek Kabylbekov was born in 1959 in Saudakent village (former Baikadam village) in Sarysu district of Zhambyl region.
He studied at the Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University for a year and a half, and continued his studies at the Faculty of Medicine of Moscow-based Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University. He graduated from it in 1989, and finished residency in 1991. After graduation, he worked at the Institute of Ophthalmology (now Kazakh Research Institute of Eye Diseases) in Almaty. Since 1998, he has been working at the Daqing Ophthalmology Hospital (Heilongjiang Province, China) as a foreign expert ophthalmologist.
Throughout 25 years of his career at the Daqing Ophthalmology Hospital, he treated almost 200,000 patients and carried out some 30,000 surgeries.
Established in 1991, the Chinese Government’s Friendship Award is the highest award of the People’s Republic of China for "foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's modernization". More than 1,800 foreign specialists have already been honored with this award to date.
