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China sends 6th medical team to Malawi

Commitment Year•2018Country of Activity•MalawiDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•MalawiSector•HealthFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2018
Start (actual)
Apr 15, 2018
End (actual)
May 4, 2019

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The project sent a medical team to Malawi, stationed at Kumuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, and Mzuzu Central Hospital in Mzuzu, Malawi (see the picture in: ""中国医生温暖“非洲温暖之心”——援马拉维医疗队义诊活动侧记"). More detailed locational information can be found at: Kamuzu Central Hospital: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/808424986 Mzuzu Central Hospital: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/222939423#map=18/-11.42814/33.99569

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 Malawi

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China sends 6th medical team to Malawi

Narrative

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Project narrative

On April 15, 2018, the Chinese government sent the 6th medical team to aid Malawi. These medical professionals on the team were sent from Xi'an Jiaotong University Second Affiliated Hospital. On December 8, 2018, the 6th Chinese medical team held a clinic and donated supplies to Kadi/Kadidi/Caddi Village Medical Center in Malawi. More than 150 patients were diagnosed and treated. From April 4 to 6, 2019, the team held a disaster relief clinic in the wake of severe flooding. The team provided services to approximately 900 people. The 14th Bureau of China Railway also provided tables and chairs to help with the disaster relief. They conducted laboratory tests, gave diagnoses, provided surgical treatment for local patients, and gave free medicine. A total of 246 victims and nearly 400 students were provided with medical assistance services on the 5th. On the 6th, the medical team also donated a large amount of soap, hand sanitizer, mosquito repellent, wind oil, cooling oil and other hygiene and anti-mosquito products to help them improve their sanitary conditions and enhance their ability to prevent and control infectious diseases. On the 6th, about 390 villagers received treatment. On May 4, 2019, the Chinese Embassy in Malawi held a hail & farewell ceremony for the sixth and seventh medical teams. Ambassador Liu Hongyang, a representative of Shaanxi Provincial Health Commission, all members of the two medical teams, and Embassy staff attended the meeting. A summary of the work of the past year highlighted voluntary consultation activities, especially the successful holding of two large-scale consultation activities. Ambassador Liu pointed out that the work of the medical team to assist Malawi should continue to be carried out in accordance with the eight major actions of China-Africa cooperation proposed by President Xi Jinping at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. The ambassador awarded the sixth batch of medical team members an honorary certificate signed by the Ministry of Health.