Liu took China's response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an example, saying that China has provided four rounds of humanitarian aid with a combined value of about US$120 million, sent more than 1,000 medical staff to the affected countries, treated more than 900 patients, and trained more than 13,000 medical workers for Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and their neighboring countries since the outbreak of the deadly disease.
It's "the largest-ever foreign medical aid program in the history of new China," Liu said in a keynote speech in the U.S. National Institutes of Health, where a symposium on Ebola, research and global health security was held as part of the sixth China-U.S. High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange in Washington.
"With that, China has become an important force in providing assistance to West Africa in fighting Ebola," she said.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
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