Project ID: 35417

China Sends 1st Medical Team to Malawi (linked to #23346)

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Malawi

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

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2008-01-01

Actual start

2008-06-30

Actual complete

2011-03-23

Geography

Description

On June 30, 2008, 7 medical personnel left from Shaanxi province for a medical mission in the Mzuzu Central Hospital in Malawi. Then in March 2009, 12 more medical personnel left from Shanxi province for a medical mission in Kamuzu Central Hospital. This group included 9 doctors, 1 interpreter, and 2 chefs. On March 23, 2011, all but 6 personnel left Malawi and returned to China. The remaining personnel stayed on and joined the next teams for the second medical mission (captured in #23346). Since 2008, China has sent a medical team to Malawi about every two years. Part of the team goes to Kamuzu Central Hospital in the capital Lilongwe and another part goes to Mzuzu Central Hospital in Malawi's Northern Region city of Mzuzu.

Number of official sources

9

Number of total sources

11

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Malawi [Government Agency]