Project ID: 97593

20th Chinese Medical Team Dispatched to Djibouti

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Djibouti

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

2020-11-14

Actual start

2020-11-14

Actual complete

2021-11-18

Description

On November 14, 2020, the 20th Chinese Medical Team arrived in Djibouti. The team was made up of 9 doctors from Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital and was stationed at General Peltier Hospital. The team departed on November 18th, 2021. During their time in Djibouti, the team performed 10,954 outpatient and emergency consultations, admitted 595 hospitalized patients, performed 1,792 surgical operations and 436 anesthesia operations, saved 72 patients in critical condition, treated 8,205 patients with traditional Chinese medicine. The team received medals for their service during the pandemic from Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed. Since 1981, Shanxi Province has sent medical teams to Djibouti as a foreign aid initiative.

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

5

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Djibouti [Government Agency]