China Hospital Ship
Chinese naval hospital ship Peace Ark
Explainer: What is China’s naval hospital ship Peace Ark?
‘‘China’s naval hospital ship Peace Ark, known as Fangzhou in Chinese, is the country’s first standard ocean-going hospital and the world’s first 10,000-ton-level professional hospital ship. Since it was commissioned in 2008, China’s naval hospital ship Peace Ark, as of August 2024, has so far in its 16-year-old voyage visited forty-five countries and regions, providing free medical services to more than 290,000 people.
In its latest voyage, labelled the Mission Harmony-2024, the 10th mission for the Peace Ark, the ship, host to over 100 personnel onboard, seventeen clinical departments and five auxiliary diagnostic departments, set sail from China on June 16 and is expected to visit 13 countries during the trip – twelve of these countries are in Africa, namely, Angola, Benin, South Africa, Mozambique, Gabon, Djibouti, Tanzania, Seychelles, the Republic of Congo, Mauritania, Madagascar and Cameroon.’’ – Excerpt from the Ghana Centre for China Studies (GCCS) publication titled ‘‘Mission Harmony-2024: Another Avenue for China-Africa Medical Cooperation.’’
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