African experts: This disease control center that China helps builds is vital to Africa

Author:Direct Africa Time:2022.08.29

In Siyaba, the capital of Ethiopia, the project that China helped the construction of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was progressing rapidly. As the main body of the building is increasingly complete, the locals are full of expectations for the African public health system.

"You can see changes every day"

In the project site in the southwestern direction of Asia Baba, the loader and trucks are shuttled, and the workers installed on the curtain wall are busy in an orderly manner.

The headquarters project of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was built by China Civil Engineering Group and started in December 2020. The total construction area is 23,500 square meters. The construction content includes facilities such as office buildings and experimental buildings.

Gao Yan, the leader of the construction technology team of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters that the project has completed 76%of the overall progress. Next, there are curtain walls, mechanical and electrical installation and internal decoration. It is expected to be completed in December this year.

On August 16, workers of the project team of the headquarters of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked at the construction site. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ping

The project construction is rapidly advanced, so that local people participating and "watching" have a thumbs up.

The young worker Sazana Solomon is one of the about 1,000 staff members on the construction site. Since he has devoted himself to this project, his pride is increasing. Change. When we walk out of the construction site, the community people are also amazed by the rapid progress of the project. "He said.

Purchasing assistant Abel Helles has worked for more than a year at the construction site, and the project progress continues to exceed his expectations. "In terms of construction quality or progress, this is a perfect project."

"China is really helping Africa"

The project of the headquarters of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the flagship project of the "Eight Actions" announced by China at the Beijing Summit of China -Africa Cooperation Forum in 2018. One of the measures for disease prevention and control capabilities.

Experts in the field of public health in Africa believe that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention has played an indisputable role in the African continental resistance process. After the center has built modern office buildings, high -end laboratories and supporting facilities, it will make it allowed The African public health system is more perfect.

The head of the center's policy, hygiene diplomacy, and communication department Benjamin Juda Bayer said that Africa has been suffering from various infectious diseases for a long time, and urgently needs to improve the disease control system. power.

Juda Baye predicts that after the completion of the project, it will enable the non -alliance healthcare institutions to better play its role in coordination, mobilization and emergency management in public health, and finally establish a new public health order.

This is the experimental building of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Center, which was shot on August 16 in the Ethiopian Capital Africa. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ping

Costantinos, a professor of public policy at the University of Asia Beta, believes that during the period of major epidemic diseases such as the new crown epidemic, the role of the African CDC in terms of information coordination and deployment of health and medical resources is particularly prominent. The building project will become a key node for African medical management, and it will also strengthen the connection between China and African countries.

Elibabul, CEO of Ternesh-Beijing Hospital, Ethiopia, said that China ’s help and control center for helping to build is important to Africa, especially Ethiopia, and will become the largest public medical center in Africa in the future.

The vice chairman of the ANC Monick, Monic, Sanga Zaka Ganka recently told Xinhua News Agency that the project of the headquarters of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fully reflects China -Africa friendship, and looks forward to more cooperation between China and Africa in the public health field in the future. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)