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China Builds Hospital In Burkina Faso (africanstream.media)

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China and Burkina Faso are working hand in hand to build a brighter future. At least, that is the case with their collaboration on a teaching hospital on the outskirts of Bobo Dioulasso. The hospital, set to open in 2025, would be West Africa’s largest.

Karim Démé, president of the Focal Point of the People’s Republic of China in Burkina Faso, initially proposed the project and contacted Chinese authorities to develop the idea. Chinese doctors will train Burkinabé physicians for the first three years, after which the Burkinabé people will run the hospital by 2028.

As of 2020, Burkina Faso had 0.2 hospital beds per 1,000 people compared to the global average of 3.3 beds per 1,000 people.

Video credit: @bf1tv (X)

Sources

https://china.aiddata.org/projects/60057

https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article110036

https://lefaso.net/?page=impression&id_article=136152

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY15eiMl8Tc

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They once did a sit in protest when they was a student (protesting the mandatory student fees that the Tories introduced) many years ago and therefore considers themself to be very radical. In their words they can't get behind communism because they like shopping too much. I needle them about communism constantly though and I'm hoping they'll eventually see the light.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If they like shopping don't they know most of the stuff they buy comes from a communist country? They probably don't think China is communist though, right

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

God knows what they think. They are a very typical lib

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

God knows what they think. They are a very typical lib