Overview

China's Sichuan Province sends voluntary medical team to North Korea to perform cataract surgeries

Commitment Year•2012Country of Activity•Democratic People's Republic of KoreaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Democratic People's Republic of KoreaSector•HealthFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

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Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2012

Start (actual): Sep 28, 2012

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The medical team was sent to Sangwon County (상원군) in North Hwangchae Province (황해북도), and Pyongwon County (평원군) in South Pyongan Province (평안남도). For more detailed locational information, see: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3860474, https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5454113.

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

Sichuan Provincial Government

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of North Korea

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

China Ministry of Health
Sichuan Provincial Commission of Health

Loan desecription

China's Sichuan Province sends voluntary medical team to North Korea to perform cataract surgeries

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Project narrative

On 28 September 2012, as invited by North Korea Health Province and entrusted by China's Ministry of Health, China's Sichuan Province sent out a voluntary medical team to North Korea led by Deputy Director General Wanhua Zhao. The team consisted of two ophthalmologists from West China Hospital of Sichuan University and People's Hospital of Sichuan Province. The group was divided into two teams to go to Cheongwon-gun and South Pyongan Province to carry out cataract surgery. The Sichuan Provincial Medical Association also donated medical equipment and medicine to the North Korean Ministry of Health. Chinese Ambassador to North Korea Liu Hongcai attended the donation ceremony.