Project ID: 88601

China sends 20th batch of medical aid teams to Uganda in 2019

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Uganda

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

2019-01-01

Actual start

2019-10-14

Planned complete

2020-10-14

Actual complete

2021-01-24

NOTE: Red circles denote delays between planned and actual dates

Geography

Description

On October 9, 2019, China's 20th medical team to Uganda left China for the country. On October 14, 2019, the Chinese Embassy welcomed the new team and held a farewell ceremony for the 19th team in the China-Uganda Friendship Hospital in Naguru. The team began working on the next day. The 9 team members are from Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, and Yunnan Province Infectious Disease Hospital. The doctors specialize in Head and Neck Surgeries, anesthesiology, abdominal Surgeries, Urology, colorectal surgeries, infectious diseases, and acupuncture. During their tenure, the team taught local doctors the techniques of Laparoscopic appendectomy and held lectures on acupuncture. Originally, they planned to stay for one year, but they stayed longer because of the pandemic. The team finished their tenure on January 24, 2021.

Number of official sources

3

Number of total sources

10

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

China-Uganda Friendship Hospital [Miscellaneous Agency Type]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University [Miscellaneous Agency Type]

Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital [Miscellaneous Agency Type]

Yunnan Province Infectious Disease Hospital [Miscellaneous Agency Type]