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Overview

China sends fourth medical team to the Gambia

Commitment Year•2020Country of Activity•GambiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•GambiaSector•HealthFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Nov 8, 2020
Start (planned)
Nov 8, 2020
Start (actual)
Nov 8, 2020
End (planned)
Nov 8, 2021
End (actual)
Nov 8, 2021

Geospatial footprint

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The purpose of the project is to deploy a medical team at Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital. More detailed location information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/249740590

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

  • Liaoning Provincial Government

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Gambia

Loan desecription

China sends fourth medical team to the Gambia

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On November 8, 2020, a team of 10 medical experts left Shenyang, Liaoning province for Banjul, Gambia. The team consisted of ten medical experts that specialize in gynecology, general surgery, orthopedics, anesthesia, and pediatrics. This team was to be in Gambia for one year, and work at Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital like the teams before them. The team arrived on the same day as another group of Chinese medical workers dispatched to the Gambia on a special 3-month Covid prevention assignment. See Record ID#92882 for more information. China has been sending medical teams yearly to the Gambia since March 2017, when a protocol agreement on the dispatching of Chinese medical teams to work in The Gambia was signed. The agreement came after the restoration of diplomatic relations between China and the Gambia in 2016. The second Chinese medical team and the third Chinese medical team that were dispatched to the Gambia are captured in #60550, and #57444, respectively.