The China Medical Corps is an international cooperation organization of the Chinese Ministry of Health. The first Chinese medical team was established in 1963. The Chinese medical team has exquisite medical skills and noble medical ethics, and has won high praise from the governments and people of the recipient countries. The members of the Chinese medical team are mostly volunteers.
From April 1964, at the invitation of the Algerian government, the Chinese government sent a medical team to Africa for the first time, and from then on, the prelude to China's medical aid to Africa was opened. As of 2003, medical teams have been dispatched to 47 countries and regions in Africa, with a total of more than 15,000 medical personnel dispatched.
China's medical teams in Africa have both comprehensive teams and specialized groups, both Western medicine and Chinese medicine, with clinical departments as the mainstay, supplemented by sanitation and quarantine, drug testing, preventive health care, equipment maintenance and other aspects of the medical team members are selected between the ages of 30 to 50 years old, with considerable clinical experience in the senior titles of medical personnel, medical team members work outside the general for a period of two years.