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Overview

China Sent 4 teams of Medical Workers to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea

Commitment Year•2014Country of Activity•Africa, regionalSector•Emergency ResponseFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Nov 19, 2014
Start (actual)
Nov 19, 2014

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

  • Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • PLA 302 Hospital
  • Third Military Medical University

Loan desecription

China Sent 4 teams of Medical Workers to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea

Narrative

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Project narrative

On November 19, 2014, four more teams of Chinese medical workers and health experts from the People's Liberation Army left Beijing for West Africa to join the fight against Ebola.The first team hundred and sixty-three of the medical workers from Third Military Medical University, and they would work in the medical center built by China in Liberia. This team is captured in Record ID#41553. The second team to Sierra Leone consisted of 73 people from the PLA 302 Hospital and the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China-CDC). They will carry out carry out specimen laboratory testing in the China-Sierra Friendship Hospital and were sent to rotate out with the first Chinese medical team already stationed there. See Record ID#35409 for the first team and Record ID#35410 for this team. The third team was led by the expert Xu Shuqiang and was sent to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to help guide and coordinate the medical response. The fourth team was led by the vice director of China-CDC, Feng Zijian. This team will serve as advisors on China's experience treating SARS to the United Nations Ebola Emergency Mission.