Tanzania’s Zanzibari President Hussein Ali Mwinyi awarded members of the 33rd batch of the Chinese medical team medals and commemorative certificates in recognition of their contribution to Zanzibar's medical and health undertakings.
The awarding ceremony was held Monday at the Zanzibar State House, marking the end of the team's one-year medical services in the Indian Ocean islands.
President Mwinyi thanked the Chinese government for its outstanding contributions to Zanzibar's medical service and healthcare over the past 60 years. He highly praised the Chinese medical team's hard work and selfless dedication, noting their use of advanced medical technology to treat local patients and their efforts in training local medical students and doctors to develop Zanzibar's medical sector.
He highlighted that the Chinese doctors made extraordinary contributions to developing minimally invasive laparoscopic technology in Zanzibar, enabling local doctors to take a significant leap in laparoscopic procedures from scratch.
Jiang Guoqing, chief of the medical team, expressed the team's commitment to strengthening health cooperation and exchanges with Zanzibar, providing high-quality medical services to the locals, and further contributing to China-Africa friendship.
The 33rd batch of the Chinese medical team arrived in Zanzibar in September last year, treated nearly 40,000 outpatients, and held 20 large-scale free clinics.
China began sending medical teams to Zanzibar in 1964.
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