Medical and health care is a major field where China directs its foreign assistance. From 2010 to 2012, China helped recipient countries improve their medical and health services, raise their disease control and prevention ability, and enhance their public health capacity by constructing hospitals, providing medicine and medical equipment, dispatching medical teams, training medical workers and conducting exchanges and cooperation on disease prevention and treatment with other developing countries.
Xiong Bangwen is a Chinese doctor who's won respect and admiration in Sierra Leone for his extraordinary medical skills and dedication during his deployment in the African country.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that China will continue to promote cooperation with African countries on health and development.
Every now and then, Liu Hua, 54, thinks of her little friend Nshimirimana Thierry in Burundi, east Africa, a once cataract-blinded boy who gained vision thanks to Liu's surgery last year.
Free eye surgeries done by Chinese medical teams will help 500 cataract patients in Pakistan see better this year, under a plan released on Thursday by the Chinese Foundation for Lifeline Express.
A sight-restoring ceremony was held Friday at Ophthalmology Center in Lao capital Vientiane after a plan of providing free cataract surgery for Lao people within the "Mekong Bright Journey" framework was inaugurated.
The Chinese government has sent 23 medical teams to Equatorial Guinea since 1971, with over 500 members and over one million local people benefitting from the program.
On November 19, the last Ebola patient in Guinea recovered and was released from hospital. Although the World Health Organization has not yet declared a complete end to the epidemic, it envisions triumphing in its long-standing battle against Ebola in the near future.