23,500 square meters! how modern is the headquarters building of the africa centers for disease control and prevention built with chinese assistance?
2024-09-04
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guinea is one of the 20 countries with the most serious malaria in the world. since september last year, the 30th chinese medical aid team to guinea has been in conakry, the capital of guinea, working hard to improve the medical level there.
song xiantao, leader of the 30th chinese medical team to guinea: in terms of infectious diseases, the chinese medical team provides training on diagnosis, treatment, care and preventive measures for local medical staff in africa, including wearing personal protective equipment, handling infected patients, managing isolation areas for isolated patients, and quickly identifying and reporting suspected cases. these trainings have enhanced the emergency response capabilities of local medical staff when facing high-risk infectious diseases.
the construction of the africa cdc headquarters building is a microcosm of decades of china-africa public health cooperation and a model of china-africa cooperation. the africa cdc headquarters project, located in addis ababa, the capital of ethiopia, was completed on january 1, 2023. with a total construction area of 23,500 square meters, the construction project includes an office building that can accommodate more than 400 people and a laboratory building with 10 laboratories of three levels. it is the first all-africa cdc on the african continent with modern office and laboratory conditions and complete facilities.
in the emergency command hall on the eighth floor of the africa cdc, a huge display screen shows data on infectious diseases such as the new coronavirus, monkeypox, ebola, and dengue fever. it is equipped with a data collection system that allows disease data to be uploaded to the emergency command hall as soon as possible, ensuring that the data is updated in real time to provide a basis for disease control decisions.
