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China to offer help on disease control for Sierra Leone: official

Xinhua, June 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

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 Tuesday 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. Endit