Project ID: 31146

16th military medical team dispatched to Zambia

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

People's Liberation Army of China [Government Agency]

Recipient

Zambia

Sector

Health (Code: 120)

Flow type

Free-standing technical assistance

Concessional

Yes

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

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment year

2013

Completion

2014

2014-01-28

Actual

Description

China has been sending military medical teams to Zambia since 1984. On January 21, 2013, China’s 16th military medical team arrived in Zambia. The 11-person team was stationed at Maina Soko Hospital in Lusaka and completed its term of service on January 28, 2014.

Additional details

Chinese military medical teams should not be confused with regular Chinese medical teams, which have also been dispatched from Henan Province to Zambia every two years since 1978.

Number of official sources

1

Number of unofficial sources

7

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Zambia [Government Agency]