A Taiwanese medical team has treated more than 2,700 people during a 10-day mission to Nepal, the head of the team said Saturday as it prepared to return to Taiwan via New Delhi after winding up its mission. Chen Chih-fu, head of the Taiwan International Health Action (Taiwan IHA) under the International Cooperation and Development Fund, said the 14-member team included internal, surgical and pediatric doctors, as well as obstetricians and gynecologists, family medicine doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and other volunteers. Chen said the team went to the villages of Balambu, Sitapaila, Khokana, Thecho and Tokha around Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, to provide the medical services. He said the quality of basic medical care in the area is poor and that he will seek support for the region from medical institutions after returning to Taiwan. Chen expressed hope that they will provide medicine or dispatch medical personnel once or twice per year to offer treatment. 'We will definitely return next year,' he went on. In addition, he said, the Taiwan IHA has traveled to Darjeeling in West Bengal every year for the past five years to provide medical services, and he is planning to go there again at the end of this year or early next year. 