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Chinese Medical Experts to assist PNG Hospital

The eighth Chinese medical team has arrived in Port Moresby to help with complicated and difficult operations at Port Moresby General Hospital.

This is an ongoing program between China and the hospital to exchange experience with their PNG colleagues through medical practice.

At a welcoming ceremony room yesterday, Health Secretary Pascoe Kase greeted the team and thanked them for accepting the invitation to come to PNG.

“Currently, the country is facing a lot of shortages in terms of manpower, especially for medical officers.

“Your presence in PMGH to work with the local doctors is greatly appreciated and as professionals, we can now see extra hands and skills brought to the health system to help the people of PNG,” he said.

He said the important thing is that, at the end of the day, the local doctors and officers will benefit from their expertise and the cultural exchange they will have as people of PNG and China.

The medical team is led by team leader Dr Ke Dazhi and consists of 10 members, including eight medical professionals and two assistants; an interpreter and a chef, specialists from many different fields of medicine such as neurologists, anaesthetists, urologists, radiologists, oncologists, maxillo-facial surgeon, cardiologists and specialists from gynecology, obstetrics, pathology, paediatrics and orthopedics.

The team will be here on a two-year attachment with the hospital and this year will be their fifth year of their visit.

Commercial counsellor of the Chinese Embassy to PNG, Liu Linlin, said PNG and China enjoy a good relation in many fields, and their cooperation in medical and health services is a shining example. “In 2002 at the request of the PNG government, China began to send medical teams to PNG, and for 14 years since then, China has sent eight medical teams to PNG.

“According to incomplete statistics, during the past 14 years, successive Chinese medical teams accumulatively given close to 100,000 treatments to local people,” he said.

He said their presence in the hospital has helped a big number of complicated and difficult operations in Port Moresby and many lives have been saved. Post Courier/ ONE PNG
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