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China sends second PLA medical team to the China-aid Ebola Treatment center in Liberia (Linked to Record ID#41552, #45030)

Commitment Year•2015Country of Activity•LiberiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•LiberiaSector•Emergency ResponseFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2015
Start (actual)
Jan 14, 2015
End (planned)
Mar 14, 2015
End (actual)
Mar 14, 2015

Geospatial footprint

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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

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Liberia

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • People's Liberation Army of China (PLA)

Loan description

China sends second PLA medical team to the China-aid Ebola Treatment center in Liberia (Linked to Record ID#41552, #45030)

Narrative

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Project narrative

In January 2015, the Chinese Government sent a second medical team from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to Liberia to operate the Chinese-funded Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in in the Samuel Kanyon Doe (SKD) Sports Complex in Paynesville City outside Monrovia. This team consisted of 156 PLA members recruited from Chengdu Military Region, the Second Military Medical University, the Fourth Military Medical University, the PLA General Hospital, etc. The first echelon of 75 members left on January 14th, and the second echelon left on January 19th. Their mission was expected to be completed within 2 months. Since November, 2014, the PLA has sent 361 medical workers in three teams from the PLA General Hospital, three military medical universities, the Shenyang, Beijing and Chengdu military area commands, to Liberia, where the Chinese military medical teams gave treatment to Ebola patients and trained more than 6,000 local medical workers. Liberia was officially declared ebola-free by the WHO on May 9, 2015. The assistance provided by the first and third PLA medical teams is captured in linked umbrella Record ID#41552.