China sends 13th medical team to Liberia

On November 16th, 2019, the 13th batch of medical aid to Liberia successfully landed in Monrovia. Then, on November 21, 2019, a rotation ceremony was held dismissing the 12th batch of medical teams (see Project ID#55714). Chinese Ambassador to Liberia Fu Jijun gave a speech. The medical team was organized by Harbin Municipal Health Commission, Daqing Municipal Health Commission, Jiamusi Municipal Health Commission, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, and Heilongjiang Provincial Nursing College. All medical staff are from the city level or above. Except for the two remaining old members of the 12th batch, the remaining 7 new members will be led by Yu Xuechen, Director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Center of Heilongjiang Provincial Health Commission to Liberia. They planned to perform a one-year national foreign aid medical mission in surgery, internal medicine, stomatology, obstetrics and gynecology, B-ultrasound, and Chinese medicine acupuncture. During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical team members provided anti-epidemic education, prevention and control guidance, and medical treatment for Chinese-funded institutions and overseas Chinese in recipient countries, assisting Chinese compatriots in nucleic acid and antibody testing, and escort returnees. On April 2, 2021, ambassador to Liberia Ren Yisheng went to JFK Hospital in Liberia to attend the handover ceremony between China's 13th and 14th batch of Liberal aid medical teams. Liberia Vice Minister of Health Howard, JFK Hospital Dean Brown, and representatives of medical staff, Liberia-China Friendship Association Chairman Sharif, and all members of the 13th and 14th batches of aid medical teams attended the meeting. As of March 18, 2021, the 13th batch of medical teams had completed 5,343 outpatient and emergency registrations, 364 operations, 2,451 ultrasound examinations, and 175 acupunctures and massages. Since 1984, the first batch of 14 medical teams was sent to Liberia. Heilongjiang Province has sent 13 batches of medical teams to Liberia so far (see project ID #1594, project ID #30735, project ID #30736, project ID #30737).

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