STORY: Chinese medical team donates medical supplies to local hospital in Rwanda
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 30, 2024
DATELINE: Feb. 1, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:50
LOCATION: Kigali
CATEGORY: HEALTH

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Masaka Hospital
2. various of the ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE (English): JEAN DAMASCENE HANYURWIMFURA, Director General of Masaka Hospital

STORYLINE:

A Chinese medical team on Tuesday donated a consignment of medical supplies to Masaka Hospital in Kicukiro District in the Rwandan capital of Kigali.

The supplies included hand sanitizers, surgical lights, operating stools, a high-frequency electric knife, disposable oral appliance packs, and disposable sterile surgical scrubs.

Upon receiving the donation at Masaka Hospital, Director General Jean Damascene Hanyurwimfura expressed gratitude to the government of China and the Chinese Embassy in Rwanda for supporting the hospital.

SOUNDBITE (English): JEAN DAMASCENE HANYURWIMFURA, Director General of Masaka Hospital
"Now we have 15 medical health workers that are available for the whole year. So in their daily activities, they need these materials. There are some medications and some materials that help them to do operations. So this will help them to facilitate their daily activities and to help our community to improve the outcome."

"Last year, the medical team provided us with operating room beds, which addressed a previous lack of medical supplies and improved our surgical operations," he said. "The Hernia Week campaign, during which doctors operated on patients, was made possible because we had the necessary medical supplies for surgical operations."

China started to dispatch medical teams to Rwanda in 1982, and there have been hundreds of medical staff working in Rwanda since then.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kigali.
(XHTV)