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Chinese team arrives in Liberia to staff Ebola clinic
Source: Reuters
About 160 Chinese health workers arrived on Saturday in Liberia, where they are due to staff a new $41 million Ebola clinic that, unlike most other foreign interventions, is being built and fully run by Chinese personnel.
China, Africa's biggest trade partner, had come under fire for the level of its response to the Ebola crisis. But it said this week it would send 1,000 personnel to help fight an outbreak that has killed over 5,000 people in West Africa.
"Up to now in Liberia, China is the only country which provides not only the construction of an ETU (Ebola treatment unit), but also the running and operation and the staffing of an ETU," Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yue told Reuters.
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Yue said the new team in Liberia included a mix of doctors, nurses, technicians and engineers. "They experienced SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). They are very knowledgeable in this area," he said, referring to the contagious illness that was first identified in China in 2002 and killed several hundred people across the world...
China, Africa's biggest trade partner, had come under fire for the level of its response to the Ebola crisis. But it said this week it would send 1,000 personnel to help fight an outbreak that has killed over 5,000 people in West Africa.
"Up to now in Liberia, China is the only country which provides not only the construction of an ETU (Ebola treatment unit), but also the running and operation and the staffing of an ETU," Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yue told Reuters.
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Yue said the new team in Liberia included a mix of doctors, nurses, technicians and engineers. "They experienced SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). They are very knowledgeable in this area," he said, referring to the contagious illness that was first identified in China in 2002 and killed several hundred people across the world...
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/15/us-health-ebola-liberia-china-idUSKCN0IZ0RU20141115
http://www.firstpost.com/world/chinese-team-arrives-in-liberia-to-staff-ebola-clinic-1804919.html
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Chinese team arrives in Liberia to staff Ebola clinic (Original Post)
uppityperson
Nov 2014
OP
China has been a friend to Africa, unlike the West that seeks only to conquer and profit.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2014
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(7,906 posts)1. That's wonderful! n/t
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. China has been a friend to Africa, unlike the West that seeks only to conquer and profit.
They have helped to build several modern hospitals in many African countries, just part of the tens of billions they are investing in infrastructure in the massive continent.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)4. That's adorable. nt
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(17,196 posts)3. kick