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.
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.
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.
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