(260430) -- NIAMEY, April 30, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Chinese doctors conduct tympanoplasty operation in Niamey General Reference Hospital in Niamey, Niger, April 27, 2026. Chinese doctors have recently conducted a successful tympanoplasty operation in Niger, believed to be the first time that the eardrum repair procedure was done in the West African country.

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