China turns Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital into an Ebola Inspection Center (Linked to Record ID#35409)

Project narrative

In September 2014, the Chinese embassy reported that China had transformed the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital into an inspection center for Ebola control and prevention at the request of the Sierra Leone government. This undertaking was prompted by the Ebola epidemic that broke out in West Africa that year. China dispatched a medical team of 59 members and a mobile bio-safe level III laboratory to Sierra Leone in the same month to assist combating the disease (Record ID#35409). A subsidiary company of China Railway Construction Corporation was responsible for the transportation of medical materials and laid the foundation of the mobile lab in the hospital. The center was operated and monitored by medical and laboratory teams from China. In August 2015, as the Ebola epidemic ebbed in Sierra Leone, the center was closed and the hospital restored to its original function. Chinese embassy reported that the hospital will undergo a complete rehabilitation.