China donates sea ambulance
14 Jul 2018, 9:00 AM
The Chinese government on Thursday donated a sea ambulance to the Maldives National Defence Force.
The 26-meter-long vessel is equipped with a “mini-medical theatre,” according to the MNDF, including facilities for scans, electrocardiography tests, intravenous therapy and oxygen delivery.
Sea ambulance services were introduced in early 2014 to provide emergency transportation from all inhabited islands in the country, most of which lack adequate healthcare facilities.
The exchange documents for the Chinese ship were signed by Lieutenant Colonel Chen Xiao, head of a visiting Chinese navy delegation, and Mohamed Zuhair, minister of state for defence and national security.
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