A Chinese medical expert teaches workers from Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital how to protect themselves against Ebola disease at Jui, about 30 kilometres from Freetown of Sierra Leone, Sept. 22, 2014. (Xinhua/Huang Xianbin)
FREETOWN, June 28 (Xinhua) -- China has promised to build a disease control center and a new office for Sierra Leone's health ministry.
Gao Fu, Deputy Director of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, disclosed this to the media during his visit to the country last week shortly after a meeting with President Ernest Bai Koroma at the State House.
Gao said Chinese government has agreed to construct this facility for Sierra Leone "because of what the country went through during the Ebola crisis, and the country's readiness to improve their health care system".
He told the media he had a fruitful meeting with President Koroma, who commended the Chinese for coming to the aid of the country "when it needed help".
China was among the first countries that responded swiftly when the Ebola pandemic swept through Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.
China has offered aid worth 750 million yuan (about 113.77 million U.S. dollars) and sent thousands of medical personnel to Ebola-hit countries since early 2014.
