Overview

Guangxi province sends the fifth medical team to Cambodia in 2023

Commitment Year•2023Country of Activity•CambodiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•CambodiaSector•HealthFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Nov 8, 2023

Start (actual): Nov 8, 2023

End (actual): Dec 22, 2023

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This project was a Chinese medical team sent to Prey Veng Province in Cambodia. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2200477

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

Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Cambodia

Loan desecription

Guangxi province sends the fifth medical team to Cambodia in 2023

Narrative

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Project narrative

On November 8, 2023, Guangxi province sent the fifth medical team to Cambodia's Prey Veng Province to perform vision restoration surgery. The team composed of eight ophthalmologists and medical staff from the Liuzhou Red Cross Hospital. The team conducted 689 cataract surgeries during their time in Cambodia. The medical team returned on December 22, 2023. This project is a part of the second iteration of the "Belt and Road" Cataract Blindness Elimination Campaign. The first campaign ran from May 17th, 2018, to December 2019.