Overview

Chinese ophthalmologist team offers services and donates medical equipments to Ethiopia

Commitment Year•2014Country of Activity•EthiopiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•EthiopiaSector•HealthFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2014

Start (actual): Apr 28, 2014

End (planned): May 15, 2014

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The purpose of this project was to provide ophthalmological services for free at Alert Hospital in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/204776351

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

China National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC)

Receiving agencies

Miscellaneous Agency Types

Alert Hospital

Loan desecription

Chinese ophthalmologist team offers services and donates medical equipments to Ethiopia

Narrative

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Project narrative

On Apr. 28, 2014, a Chinese ophthalmologist team dispatched by the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China started providing ophthalmological services for free at Alert Hospital in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. The team under the campaign, "Bright Journey" was composed of six specialists. Its service and technical exchanges and experience sharing with Ethiopian medical staffs ended on May 15, according to a statement from the Ethiopian side. The six specialists from Pecking Union Medical College hospital (PUMCH) of china arrived last Monday. They were expected to carry out site restoring operations for about 300 Ethiopian patients. They were deployed at Alert Hospital with medicines and medical equipment of advanced technology and consumables donated by China, which will stay permanently after the mission. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the patients and doctors on May 5, 2014 during his visit to Ethiopia.