Chinese Government provides $4 million grant for 100 ambulances

In 2011, two agreements were signed for the donation of 100 ambulances by the Chinese government to Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health. The first agreement, which was for the first 50 batch of ambulance, was signed on 17 October 2011 by Dr. Soraya Dalil, Acting Minister of Public Health and Hogen Chen, Trade and Economic Counselor of Chinese Embassy in Kabul. The second agreement for the second batch of ambulance was signed on 14 December 2011 by Wu Gangchen, the Commercial counselor of China embassy in Afghan and Abdul Baser Sarwar, Deputy Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan. The ambulances are worth 4 million USD and were delivered to Afghanistan by China Tianjin Universal Machinery Import and Export Corporation(UMAC). Delivery of the ambulance began in 2011. Afghan Public Health Ministry released a statement regarding the donation on 20 September 2012, suggesting that the 100 ambulance had been delivered. These ambulances were to be distributed to health facilities in various provinces throughout Afghanistan.

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