NEXT year will mark 50 years since roving medical missions from China have been augmenting the delivery of health services in other countries, and 20 years in Guyana; and the Chinese Government believes that their accomplishments are worth documenting. President Donald Ramotar will be among the personalities featured in a documentary that will shed the spotlight on the life and work of the medical missions as China marks the anniversary. The first medical mission to Guyana was in 1993.
The documentary is being compiled by the International Health Exchange and Cooperation Centre at the Ministry of Health in China.
A team headed by Deputy Director of the Centre, Tian Min, will spend five days in Guyana filming and interviewing key stakeholders and organizations in the process.
The team has already done three days of work, and during a visit to President Donald Ramotar conducted an interview with the Guyanese Head of State at State House.
Guyana is the only country in South America to accommodate visiting medical missions from China, exemplifying the cordiality and longevity of the bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
China has been a key patron in Guyana’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) initiative, supplying devices for the One Laptop Per Family Programme (OLPF) and supplementing marine transportation with the donation of two new roll-on-roll-off ferries last year.
The construction of the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) and a modern sugar factory at Skeldon are also tangible products of the Guyana/China partnership.