Back in Port Moresby, exchanges also extend to the Chinese-language classroom. More than 130 hospital employees and university students completed 24 weeks of lessons taught by the team"s interpreter, Niu Tengfei, with songs and paper cutting accompanying everyday conversation, according to the team"s work summary.

　　Recognition from the people they worked with and served mattered deeply to the team, Xu said. Ipakasa"s video offered one such response.

　　"It is a legacy we will pass down to the next generation of doctors," Ipakasa said in the video.