Overview

Chinese Center for Disease Control aids Pakera Regional Hospital with histoplasmosis outbreak

Commitment Year•2019Country of Activity•GuyanaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•GuyanaSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

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Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

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Commitment date: Apr 1, 2019

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The project donated to Pakera Regional Hospital in the village of Matthew's Ridge and Georgetown Public Hospital. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/674938303, https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11213168

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

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Guyana Ministry of Health

Loan description

Chinese Center for Disease Control aids Pakera Regional Hospital with histoplasmosis outbreak

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In April 2019, the Chinese Center for Disease Control (CCDC) committed assistance to the Pakera Regional Hospital and Georgetown Public Hospital to address a Histoplasmosis outbreak in manganese mines in Guyana, with some Chinese workers contracting the illness. On April 6, 2019 a team of medical experts from the CCDC was compiled and deployed to Georgetown Public Hospital. The CCDC also provided specialists, a laboratory, and x-ray equipment. From April 8 to April 10 a group of nine specialists came to aid in testing. This announcement came after an April outbreak of histoplasmosis at the Matthew's Ridge Tunnel mine that killed 2 Chinese workers and sickened 27 others.