Chinese medical teams not only bring advanced medical technology to the recipient countries, but also traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage and the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, successfully treating a series of difficult and complicated diseases and creating one medical miracle after another.
Till now, China's medical teams in aid of Africa have sent 16,000 times of medical personnel to 45 countries in Africa, enabling 260 million African people to receive free medical assistance from distant China. In 2008 alone, China's Africa-aided medical teams provided treatment to 1.2 million local patients in 40 African countries and regions, carrying out about 100,000 surgeries and rescuing critically ill patients about 30,000 times.
While treating patients and saving lives, the Chinese medical teams have also done their best to help recipient countries improve their medical conditions, and cultivate and improve the technical level and medical capability of local medical personnel through various forms. According to statistics, the Chinese medical teams have cumulatively trained more than 3,000 junior and intermediate medical personnel and tens of thousands of clinical medical personnel for the recipient countries, thus establishing a certain scale of medical team for the African recipient countries. In addition, the Chinese medical teams have also taken on the important task of assisting local governments in dealing with public **** health emergencies in some areas.
Over the past 40 years, China's medical teams and local doctors have worked closely together to not only treat a large number of common and frequent diseases, but also cure many difficult diseases and save the lives of many dying patients. China's medical teams have treated nearly 200 million patients in Africa, and have been praised by the local government and people.