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Mozambique: National, Chinese doctors exchange experience on hospital ship – photos
7:15 CAT | 12 Aug 2024
Photo: Lusa
Mozambican and Chinese military doctors are exchanging experiences on the Chinese navy’s “Peace Arc” hospital ship, moored in the port of Maputo, which has the capacity to treat 700 people a day, a Mozambican military source said on Friday.
“We, as the armed forces, civilian health and the Chinese navy team, will be [on the ship]. As doctors, the fact that they are interacting with other colleagues from another region (…) is a moment that we believe is an opportunity for the exchange of experience and mutual learning,” said Sidónia Massangaie, director of the health department at the General Staff of the Armed Defence Forces of Mozambique (FADM).
China’s “Peace Ark” ship will be docked in the port of Maputo until the 15th of this month to provide medical and medication support and assistance to Mozambican military personnel, their dependents and the general population, the latter by “registering in a tent set up for the purpose at the Mozambican Navy Command”.
This is the second time that China’s “Peace Ark” has docked in Mozambique as part of the cooperation between the two countries, after having been in the African country in 2017, when at least 16,000 patients were treated.
“It’s a differentiated unit with all the specialities in medicine (…) what defines the valences is this ship’s capacity to provide care. We think it brings added value through the exchange of experiences and procedures. We’ll have the opportunity to see how others do it,” added Sidónia Massangaie.
The hospital ship left China on 16 June, with visits scheduled to 13 countries, namely Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Madagascar, South Africa, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Benin, Mauritania, Djibouti and Sri Lanka.
“Before Mozambique, the ship travelled to Madagascar and then to South Africa,” said a Chinese source.
The Chinese navy hospital ship is a Chinese-built maritime emergency medical support platform, equipped with operating theatres, medical offices, nursing stations, hundreds of beds, and an ambulance helicopter.
The vessel provided free medical and humanitarian services to more than 290,000 people in 45 countries and regions in Africa, America and Oceania between 2010 and 2023 in a series of medical service missions called the “Harmonious Mission”.
Source: Lusa
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