Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention holds "China-Sierra Leone International Training on Malaria Diagnostic Techniques" in October 2019

On October 28, 2019, the "China-Sierra Leone International Training on Malaria Diagnostic Techniques," jointly organized by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, USAID/PMI and the Ministry of Health of Sierra Leone, was launched in the Bintumani Hotel in Freetown. The course lasted for six days, consisted of two three-day sessions, and trained a total of 75 Sierra Leonean hospital technicians responsible for malaria diagnosis. Experts from the Chinese Center for Disease Control Team and the Chinese Military Medical Expert Team conducted the trainings. Dr. Amara Jambai was chairman of the program. In attendance at the opening ceremony for the course were Chargé d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy, Sierra Leone's Vice Minister of Health, Sierra Leone’s Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Chief Officer of the Ministry of Health, and the Head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Expert Team.

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