Overview

Chinese government donates medical equipment to Steve Biko Academic Hospital

Commitment Year•2017Country of Activity•South AfricaSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2017

Start (actual): Apr 25, 2017

End (actual): Apr 25, 2017

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Steve Biko Academic Hospital is located at Malan St, Capital Park, Pretoria, South Africa. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/433820463

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

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Government of South Africa

Loan desecription

Chinese government donates medical equipment to Steve Biko Academic Hospital

Narrative

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Project narrative

During an April 2017 visit to South Africa, Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong's handed over a set of hi-tech medical equipment to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in South Africa (捐赠南非史蒂夫·比科医学医院一批医疗器械). The donation was made on April 25, 2017. This donation was part of the China-Africa Cooperation in Health agreement signed in Cape Town in November 2015. The Steve Biko Hospital was the first beneficiary of the agreement. The equipment donated included a portable colour ultrasound system, a SynoVent E5 adult and neonate ventilator and an A7 high-end anaesthesia workstation.

Staff comments

The cost of the equipment donated is unknown.