Chinese Foreign Ministry has announced plans to join the fight against the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa.
Tribune reports that the ministry’s spokesperson, Hong Lei, who made this known in Beijing on Wednesday, said the country promised to work with other international community in curtailing the disease in the region.
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Lei, who further revealed that a 59-member Chinese laboratory team, with 30 doctors and 29 laboratory technicians on Tuesday left Beijing, said: “They will work at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital to help Sierra Leone improve lab testing.”
According to him, this is the recent effort by China to help the fight against the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
The spokesman also stated that China had earlier dispatched medical supplies and 115 medical experts to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau.
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Lei, however, pointed out that the move was to show that China and Africa, as friends in need, were friends indeed as well as demonstrate Chinese people’s international humanitarianism.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has also requested the sum of $1billion about N165 billion to help fight the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease EVD, in West Africa.
It would be recalled that on September 14, 2014, in response to the unabated increase in number of deaths recorded so far from the EVD outbreak in West Africa, United States President, Barack Obama, hinted on plans to boost his country’s involvement in the war against the deadly disease after it initially announced that it has already committed around $100 million to tackle the outbreak by providing protective equipment for healthcare workers, food, water, medical and hygiene equipment.
Tribune reports that the ministry’s spokesperson, Hong Lei, who made this known in Beijing on Wednesday, said the country promised to work with other international community in curtailing the disease in the region.
READ ALSO: Celebrities, Activists Hold #BlockEbola Campaign In Lagos
Lei, who further revealed that a 59-member Chinese laboratory team, with 30 doctors and 29 laboratory technicians on Tuesday left Beijing, said: “They will work at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital to help Sierra Leone improve lab testing.”
According to him, this is the recent effort by China to help the fight against the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
The spokesman also stated that China had earlier dispatched medical supplies and 115 medical experts to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau.
READ ALSO: Obama Refuses To Send Ebola Drug To Africa
Lei, however, pointed out that the move was to show that China and Africa, as friends in need, were friends indeed as well as demonstrate Chinese people’s international humanitarianism.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has also requested the sum of $1billion about N165 billion to help fight the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease EVD, in West Africa.
It would be recalled that on September 14, 2014, in response to the unabated increase in number of deaths recorded so far from the EVD outbreak in West Africa, United States President, Barack Obama, hinted on plans to boost his country’s involvement in the war against the deadly disease after it initially announced that it has already committed around $100 million to tackle the outbreak by providing protective equipment for healthcare workers, food, water, medical and hygiene equipment.
