Chinese Embassy contributes to donation of 930,000 surgical gloves and 5,000 N95 masks to Ecuadorian hospitals and Armed Forces in March 2020

On March 19, 2020, the Chinese Embassy in Ecuador and Ecuador's National Chamber of Aquaculture handed over a joint donation of 930,000 surgical gloves and 5,000 N95 masks to Ecuador's Armed Forces, Ecuador's Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion, and multiple hospitals. The supplies were to be used to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chinese Embassy's estimated contribution to the donation is 465,000 surgical gloves and 2,500 N95 masks. The hospitals that received a portion of this donation are as follows: Hospital León Becerra and Hospital del Guasmo in the city of Guayaquil; Hospital Martín Icaza de Babahoyo in the Los Ríos province; and the 7th Health District (Distrito de Salud 7) in the city of Machala.

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1. The National Chamber of Aquaculture is a non-profit association of individuals and companies in Ecuador's aquaculture sector with the goal of developing said sector. 2. AidData has used the equal contribution assumption to estimate the Chinese Embassy's contribution. That is, the 930,000 surgical gloves and 5,000 N95 masks have been divided by the number of donors (two). Therefore, the Chinese Embassy's estimated contribution to the donation is 465,000 surgical gloves and 2,500 N95 masks. 3. Harvard's Mask Diplomacy dataset estimates the total donation value was USD 28,600 (USD 14,300 for each half). Therefore, the Chinese Embassy's estimated contribution is USD 14,300 using the Harvard Mask Diplomacy dataset's per-unit estimates.

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