Djiboutian Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed recently awarded the Independence Day Medal of the Republic of Djibouti to the 12 members of the 22nd batch of the foreign aid medical teams from North China's Shanxi province. This is also the third year Shanxi province has dispatched medical teams to Djibouti to receive this honor.

Djiboutian Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed awards the medal to a medical team member. [Photo/Yellow River News]

Prime Minister Kamil sincerely thanked all members of the medical team for their dedication to the people of Djibouti. He expressed his desire to continue to strengthen cooperation with China in various fields such as health and bring more benefits to the people.

Shanxi has been sending foreign aid medical teams to Djibouti since 1981, with a total of 23 batches and 213 personnel currently dispatched. The 22nd batch of medical teams to aid Djibouti was sent by the Second People's Hospital of Jinzhong, the First People's Hospital of Jinzhong, and the Jinzhong Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. They arrived in Djibouti in May 2023 and began their one-year foreign aid medical mission.

During this period, the medical teams completed more than 26,000 outpatient visits, over 1,900 surgeries, six free medical consultations and rounds of visits, and three traditional Chinese medicine training sessions with 74 trainees in attendance. The medical teams have won high praise from the government and people of Djibouti, making outstanding contributions to consolidating and promoting the friendship between China and Djibouti.