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China sends batch of medical team members to Yemen in 2009

Commitment Year•2009Country of Activity•YemenSector•HealthFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

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Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

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Commitment date: Apr 11, 2009

Start (actual): May 18, 2009

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China sends batch of medical team members to Yemen in 2009. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/383891

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

China Ministry of Health

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Yemen Ministry of Public Health

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China sends batch of medical team members to Yemen in 2009

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Project narrative

After the governments of China and Yemen formally signed the "Protocol on Sending Chinese Medical Teams to Work in the Republic of Yemen" agreement on April 11, 2009, China continued to send medical teams to Yemen. On May 18, 2009, the first batch of supplementary medical team members selected by the Liaoning Provincial Department of Health to work at various medical points in northern Yemen, a total of 15 people, arrived in Sana'a. Jiang Guangwei, head of the Yemen (Liaoning) Medical Team, was present at the meeting. The April 2009 agreement also specifies that a further 138 Chinese medical teams will be sent to Sana'a, Hodeida, Taiz, Ibb, Aden, Mukalla, Lahj, and other unspecified sties.