Chinese Government dispatches 7th medical team to Port Moresby Hospital

On May 23, 2014, the Chinese government agreed to send the 7th medical team to the Port Moresby General Hospital. The agreement for the placements was signed in the Chinese Embassy in Port Moresby, by China's Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Li Ruiyou, and Papua New Guinea's Secretary of Health, Pascoe Kase. The team arrived in 2014. 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 7th 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), the 5th Medical Mission in 2010 (#63847), and the 6th Medical Mission in 2013 (#63848), and followed by the 8th Medical Mission in 2017 (#63850), the 9th Medical Mission in 2018 (#63851), and the 10th Medical Mission in 2019 (#63852).

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