China sends fifth medical team to the Gambia

On May 30, 2022, the fifth Chinese medical team to the Gambia arrived in Banjul. Chinese Ambassador to Gambia Ma Jiachun welcomed the team on June 5, 2022. In 2023, they received an award for their work from the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China. Led by Dr. Sun Jiaxing, the team consists of nine doctors and one interpreter.

The doctors specialize in obstetrics, general surgery, ultrasonic, anesthesia, genecology, among others.

The full roster is as follows: Dr Sun Jiaxing, an ultrasonographer, associate professor, PhD from Shenjing Hospital affliated to China Medical University; Dr Li Yang, Associate Professor, PhD, an internal medicine physician; Wang Guang, Attending Physician, PhD and general surgeon: Li Wei, Associate Chief Physician, PhD; obstetric and gynecology physician from Shenjing Hospital; Yuan Hongmou, Associate Chief Physician and an orthopedist.

Zhu Yu, Attending Physician, Master of Medicine and a physician of ICU from Liaoning Province People’s Hospital; Mu Huaixin, pediatrician from Shenyang Children’s Hospital, Attending Physician, Master of Medicine; Luan Guangyi, doctor of Traditional Chinese medicine from the First Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Gao Peng, an anesthesiologist.

They will be working at Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital.

China has been sending medical teams yearly to the Gambia since March 2017, when a protocol agreement on the dispatching of Chinese medical teams to work in The Gambia was signed. The agreement came after the restoration of diplomatic relations between China and the Gambia in 2016.

The second, third, and fourth Chinese medical teams that were dispatched to the Gambia are captured in Record ID #s #60550, #57444, and #94675, respectively.