Project ID: 90220

CNPC provides staff to Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark for free medical assistance mission in Venezuela 2018 (linked to project ID #90213)

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) [State-owned Company]

Recipient

Venezuela

Sector

Emergency response (Code: 720)

Flow type

Grant

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

2018-09-22

Actual complete

2018-09-29

Description

The state-owned company, Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), provided staff for China’s Peace Ark ( (和平方舟) hospital ship’s humanitarian visit to Venezuela. According to a 2018 CNPC corporate social responsibility report, CNPC provided staff to support the mission of the Peace Ark in Venezuela. The specific number of staff supporting the mission is unknown. The hospital ship stayed in Venezuela from September 22 2018-September 29, 2018. During the stay, the Peace Ark conducted 3,840 diagnoses and treatments, 2,349 CT and DR examinations, 30 hospitalizations, attended 25 surgical cases, and administered 64 physical examinations (see project ID #90213).

Additional details

This project's CRS Sector is coded as an emergency response, as the Peace Ark arrived with the purpose of providing medical aid to "thousands of Venezuelan migrants fleeing their homes amid widespread food and medicine shortages" (see Chinese hospital ship stops in turbulent Venezuela). The Peace Ark is also known as 和平方舟 in Chinese. The project is additionally linked to (project ID #90213).

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

3

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Venezuela [Government Agency]