The Chinese embassy in Mauritania celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first medical team sent to African nation.
On a morning in October, 2017, the doctors of the China-Guinea Friendship Hospital were as busy as usual. A middle-aged Guinean woman knocked on the door of the chest surgery clinic. Wang Yang spoke with her to learn about her situation.
An emergency cesarean operation put the Chinese medical team in a tricky place in the night of December 4, 2016. The Chinese medical workers are stationed in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in Africa.
As the needs of recipient countries developed we continued to innovate the work of foreign-aid medical teams, explore cooperation between medical institutions, invite medical staff from recipient countries to come to China for short-term clinical training, and send short-term medical teams.
As a model of South-South cooperation, China-Africa health cooperation is a vital part of China-Africa cooperation and has written many moving chapters for China-Africa friendship.
The Chinese and African peoples have extended mutual support in the struggle for national independence and liberation and carried out wholehearted cooperation in national rejuvenation, ensuring the happiness of their peoples and upholding the noble cause of world peace.
An eight-member Chinese medical team was sent to Sao Tome and Principe on Feb 1 to provide health care in the archipelago’s hospitals.