When President Danilo Medina and the Dominican government mission was beginning his first official visit to China, the Chinese naval hospital ship, Peace Ark (Daishan Dao), Beijing’s 584-foot long goodwill ambassador, was docking in Santo Domingo at the Don Diego Terminal of Sansouci Port.
The Peace Ark is also described as “a well outfitted symbol of Beijing’s growing “soft power.” The ship primarily offers conventional medicine services, but there is a clinic on board for traditional Chinese medicine including acupuncture, massage and cupping therapy.
As reported, the hospital ship is offering free medical services to upwards of 4,000 persons from 1-7 November 2018. The ship has capacity to service around 600 persons a day in 21 medical specialties with 57 doctors, 27 nurses and 36 pharmacists on board, in addition to other medical technicians.
OMSA provided free transportation to the hospital ship from five public hospitals — Marcelino Velez Santana, Salvador B Gautier, Ney Arias Lora, and Dario Contreras.
The ship visit is coordinated with the Ministry of Public Health, the Dominican Armada and the Dominican Port Authority.
The stopover in Santo Domingo is part of the ship’s Harmony Mission 2018 that began in June 2018 and has planned stops in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Papúa Nueva Guinea, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Granada, Dominica, Antigua y Barbuda, Yibuti, Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh, Cuba, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.
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