Project ID: 44879

Chinese Government sends the fifth Chinese (Hunan) medical team to Sierra Leone

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Sierra Leone

Sector

Emergency response (Code: 720)

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

2015-01-01

Actual start

2015-05-09

Actual complete

2015-07-23

Description

On May 9, 2015, the Chinese Government sent the fifth China (Hunan) Medical Team organized by the Health and Family Planning Commission of Hunan Province, led by the Xiangya Hospital of Central South University of China to Sierra Leone to assist with the Ebola epidemic. The team included 40 medical staff and technicians from Xiangya Hospital, Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, The First Hospital of Changsha, Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The team also included staff from 302 Military Hospital of China. The team treated 39 patients and cured 3 Ebola patients. On July 23, 2015, the mission was finished and the team returned home.

Number of official sources

0

Number of total sources

2

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Sierra Leone [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Health Commission of Hunan Province [Government Agency]

Xiangya Hospital Central South University [Miscellaneous Agency Type]