Chinese Navy hospital ship arrives on Nov 9
Friday, 5 November 2010
Chinese Navy ship "Peace Ark" will arrive in Chittagong on November 9 on a week-long visit to Bangladesh with a message of peace, friendship and humanity.
This is for the first time a Chinese Navy hospital ship will visit Bangladesh, repots UNB.
"It is an important move to strengthen the friendship between China and Bangladesh and it shows good cooperation between Chinese People's Libe-ration Army (PLA) and Bangladesh Armed Forces," Senior Col Li Chenglin, Military, Navy and Air Attache of the Chinese Embassy said Thursday.
Briefing reporters on the mission of Peace Ark, he said the ship will provide humanitarian medical services to government officials, armed forces personnel, citizens and the Chinese people in Bangladesh and carry out medical exchange.
The ship will provide health inspection, disease treatment and sanitation promotion to local people and military personnel in Bangladesh and offer professional training to local military medical staff.
The Peace Ark will have 300 doctors and nurses and 150 crew members and an ambulance helicopter.
It has 300 beds, eight operation rooms and medical departments and also includes ICU, serious casualty wards, burns wards, ordinary patients' wards, dental clinic, ENT clinic, pharmacy, medical laboratory, CT Scan room and X-ray room.
It has also on board units of cardiology, neurology, respiratory, digestive, rheumatic, general surgery, orthopedics, thoracic surgery, urology surgery, plastic surgery, gynecology and traditional Chinese treatment.
The length of the ship is 178m, width 24m and mast head 33.5m.
Peace Ark is arriving in Chittagong as the last leg of its five nation tour. Earlier, the ship called at Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania and Seychelles.
She will leave for China on November 15.
This is for the first time a Chinese Navy hospital ship will visit Bangladesh, repots UNB.
"It is an important move to strengthen the friendship between China and Bangladesh and it shows good cooperation between Chinese People's Libe-ration Army (PLA) and Bangladesh Armed Forces," Senior Col Li Chenglin, Military, Navy and Air Attache of the Chinese Embassy said Thursday.
Briefing reporters on the mission of Peace Ark, he said the ship will provide humanitarian medical services to government officials, armed forces personnel, citizens and the Chinese people in Bangladesh and carry out medical exchange.
The ship will provide health inspection, disease treatment and sanitation promotion to local people and military personnel in Bangladesh and offer professional training to local military medical staff.
The Peace Ark will have 300 doctors and nurses and 150 crew members and an ambulance helicopter.
It has 300 beds, eight operation rooms and medical departments and also includes ICU, serious casualty wards, burns wards, ordinary patients' wards, dental clinic, ENT clinic, pharmacy, medical laboratory, CT Scan room and X-ray room.
It has also on board units of cardiology, neurology, respiratory, digestive, rheumatic, general surgery, orthopedics, thoracic surgery, urology surgery, plastic surgery, gynecology and traditional Chinese treatment.
The length of the ship is 178m, width 24m and mast head 33.5m.
Peace Ark is arriving in Chittagong as the last leg of its five nation tour. Earlier, the ship called at Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania and Seychelles.
She will leave for China on November 15.