Overview

Chinese medical team gives Myanmar 200 free cataract surgeries (2013)

Commitment Year•2013Country of Activity•MyanmarDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•MyanmarSector•HealthFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2013

Start (actual): Feb 27, 2013

End (actual): Mar 2, 2013

Geospatial footprint

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The purpose of this project was to provide free cataract surgeries in the Mandalay Province. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5996480

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Miscellaneous Agency Types

Mandalay Eye Hospital

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Yunnan First People's Hospital

Loan desecription

Chinese medical team gives Myanmar 200 free cataract surgeries (2013)

Narrative

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Project narrative

According to a declaration by the Mandalay Eye Hospital, China would have collaborated with the hospital's medical team in February 2013 to give over 200 free cataract surgeries to patients from the Mandalay area. An official governmental website declared that the operations were carried out from 27 February to 2 March 2013 by the Yunnan First People's Hospital medical team. Besides the operations themselves, the initiative also included exchange of medical technology.