Chinese Government Sends 9th Medical Mission to the Port Moresby General Hospital of Papua New Guinea

On February 6, 2018, China's Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Xue Bing, and the administrative director of the Port Moresby General Hospital, Gupta, signed an agreement for the ninth medical mission.

The team is comprised of 8 doctors, which includes a urologist, a neurosurgeon, a cancer specialist, an acupuncture consultant, an anesthesiologist, a radiologist, and an operating specialist. Over the one-year mission, the team wants to focus on training the local medical staff. The medical team arrived in Papua New Guinea in June 2018.

This series of medical missions began after the then Chinese Ambassador to PNG, Zhao Zhenyu, discussed PNG's extreme need for medical doctors in 2000.

Since 2002, there have been 8 medical teams sent to PNG, who cured approximately 100,000 patients and trained almost 10,000 local medical staff.

This was China’s 9th Medical Mission to PNG, for other missions see: 1st Medical Mission in 2002 (#37712), the 2nd Medical Mission in 2004 (#37785), the 3rd Medical Mission in 2006 (#39292), the 4th Medical Mission in 2008 (#39291), the 5th Medical Mission in 2010 (#63847), the 6th Medical Mission in 2013 (#63848), the 7th Medical Mission in 2014 (#63849), and the 8th Medical Mission in 2017 (#63850), and followed by the 10th Medical Mission in 2019 (#63852).