Chinese Government donates medical equipment worth $447,000 to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital

In 2009, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana donated 55 pieces of medical equipment worth $447,000, contributing to the Anti-Malaria Research Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. The equipment includes microscopes, ultra-violet flouresce, microwaves, clean benches, centrifuges, and water heaters.

The donation took place at the sod-cutting ceremony for the establishment of the research center.

According to a 2011 Working Series report, the anti-malaria medical center in Accra started to operate on 28 October 2009.

After the establishment of the anti-malaria center, Chinese experts could set up and test the facilities, exchange ideas with local specialists and give technological training to medical staff. For the following three years, the Chinese government provided the center’ facilities and drugs free of charge.

It is important that the center should serve as national bases not only for laboratory and clinical departments, but also, and more importantly, for research into anti-malaria strategies (including malaria prevention), for exchanges of advanced technology and for training medical staff.