FOREIGN Affairs and East African Cooperation Minister, January Makamba has today met Naza Fadhili, the first Tanzanian woman born aboard Chinese Naval Hospital ‘Peace Ark’ in all harmonious missions made in the country.
The Minister made the visit today July 21, 2024 at the Dar es Salaam Port where the ship docked for free humanitarian treatment on July 16, 2024 and expected to end July 23, next week.
He was also accompanied by the Chinese ambassador to Tanzania Chen Mingjian.
The minister acknowledged the medical team on board for conducting diagnosis and treatment since their arrival, under this third Peace Ark visit in the country, “Indeed you are doing a wonderful job.”
Naza Fadhili, a mother to a new Peace Ark baby who named her son Zakhir after birth, acknowledged the doctors who made sure that she had a safe delivery.
“I was initially admitted at Lugalo Military Hospital and contacted later by doctors that I was to be transferred to the Chinese Navy Hospital Ship for delivery; with all initiatives made, on Thursday at 12am I delivered my son, I am happy and thankful I had a safe delivery.”
This is the 11th baby delivered in all the Harmonious Missions ever currently.
The first harmonious mission in the country was made in the year 2010.
The Chinese naval hospital ship Ark Peace, consisting of more than one hundred medical personnel. Since its commission, Ark Peace has carried out the Mission Harmony to provide medical service for nine times (in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2023), visited 46 countries and regions across three oceans and six continents, provided medical services to over 290,000 people, thus, it is reputed as the ‘Ship of Life’
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