As a key ingredient of the friendly exchanges between China and Africa, medical and health care cooperation has achieved impressive results.

Since its first medical team was sent to Algeria in 1963, China has dispatched medical professionals to 15,000 postings in 47 African countries, who have provided a total of 170 million consultations or treatment to local patients.

In towns and villages in Africa, Chinese medical teams have worked in close cooperation with African medical professionals. With great passion, selfless dedication and professional expertise, they have helped many local patients regain health from the pains of diseases. Forty-three Chinese doctors have sacrificed their precious lives to the beloved land of Africa for the great friendship between China and Africa.

China has also assisted African countries in the training of medical professionals through hosting lectures, seminars and organizing training courses, which has propelled the development of the local medical and public health undertakings.

A Chinese doctor treats Burundian children.

In 1999, chinese doctors and an anesthesiologist from Benin successfully performed an emergency surgery on a critically ill patient with cardiac trauma and damage in lung, liver, stomach, and intestine.