Project ID: 30737

China send fifth medical team to Liberia

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Liberia

Sector

Health (Code: 120)

Flow type

Free-standing technical assistance

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Implementation (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2013-03-20

Actual start

2013-10-01

Geography

Description

Since 2005, Chinese medical team has come every other year. On March 20, 2013, Liberia and China signed an agreement for the continued dispatch of medical teams from China to serve in Liberia. Duties of the medical team are to assist the Liberian government, through close cooperation with Liberian medical personnel, to carry on medical work (exclusive of forensic medical work), to train Liberian personnel, and to exchange experience and learn from each other in the course of medical practice. Th 9-expert medical team arrived in Liberia in October 2013, and stayed during the Ebola outbreak in 2014, joined by several groups of medical teams sent by China to fight Ebola. The additional teams rotate on a monthly basis (#35247). Other medical team to Liberia: See Project #1594, Project #30735, Project #30736, and Project #1805

Number of official sources

0

Number of total sources

3

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Liberia [Government Agency]