Project ID: 63848

Chinese Government dispatches 6th medical team to Port Moresby Hospital

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Papua New Guinea

Sector

Health (Code: 120)

Flow type

Free-standing technical assistance

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2013-01-01

Geography

Description

In 2013, China dispatched the 6th medical team to the Port Moresby General Hospital. Over the one year mission, the ten person team wants to focus on training the local medical staff and provide specialist medical support. This series of medical missions began after the then Chinese Ambassador to PNG, Zhao Zhenyu, discussed PNG's extreme need for medical doctors in 2000. This was China’s 6th Medical Mission to PNG, it was preceded by the 1st Medical Mission in 2002 (#37712), the 2nd Medical Mission in 2004 (#37785), the 3rd Medical Mission in 2006 (#39292), the 4th Medical Mission in 2008 (#39291), and the 5th Medical Mission in 2010 (#63847), and followed by the 7th Medical Mission in 2014 (#63849), the 8th Medical Mission in 2017 (#63850), the 9th Medical Mission in 2018 (#63851), and the 10th Medical Mission in 2019 (#63852).

Number of official sources

3

Number of total sources

3

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Implementing agencies [Type]

Government of Papua New Guinea [Government Agency]