Chinese medical ship due Nov 9
A medical ship of Chinese Navy, ''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 medical ship will visit Bangladesh.
''It is an important move to strengthen the friendship between China and Bangladesh. It shows good cooperation between Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and Bangladesh Armed Forces,'' Senior Col Li Chenglin of 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 Chinese people in Bangladesh and carry out medical exchange.
The ship will provide health inspection, treatment, sanitation promotion etc. to local people and military personnel in Bangladesh and offer professional training to local military medical staff.
Peace Ark will have 300 doctors and nurses, and 150 crew with an ambulance helicopter.
It has 300 beds, eight operation rooms, and medical departments including ICU, casualty wards, burn wards, ordinary patients' wards, dental clinic, ENT clinic, pharmacy, medical laboratory, CT room, X-ray room etc.
It has also units of cardiology, neurology, respiratory, digestive, rheumatic, general surgery, orthopedics, thoracic surgery, urology surgery, plastic surgery, gynecology, and traditional Chinese treatment.
Peace Ark, 178m long and 24m wide, is arriving in Chittagong as the last destination of its five-nation tour. Earlier, the ship called at Djiboui, Kenya, Tanzania and Seychelles. It will leave for China on November 15.
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