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Chinese military deploys military medical team to Ethiopia (1st)

Commitment Year•2015Country of Activity•EthiopiaSector•HealthFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

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Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 12, 2015
Start (actual)
Jan 12, 2015
End (actual)
Jan 12, 2016

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The purpose of this project was to deploy a military medical team to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/13422232

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

  • People's Liberation Army of China (PLA)

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • People's Liberation Army of China (PLA)

Loan description

Chinese military deploys military medical team to Ethiopia (1st)

Narrative

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Project narrative

On January 12, 2015, a Chinese military medical expert team was sent to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to provide a one-year medical assistance to the General Hospital of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF). This marked the first Chinese military medical expert team to Ethiopia. The team consisted of eight experts dispatched from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Third Military Medical University. During their time in Ethiopia, the team undertook the tasks including outpatient service, group consultation, surgical operations, emergency treatment as well as professional training for medical workers in seven departments of the General Hospital of ENDF including the internal medicine-cardiovascular department, the neurosurgery department and the otolaryngology department. According to China Military News, the Chinese military medical experts received and treated outpatients for 4,000 persons/times, saved lives of 63 critically ill patients and performed surgery operations or provided surgery operation guidance 220 times without any cases of death or malpractice. The Chinese military medical team returned to China on January 12, 2016.