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Medical services provided on the ‘Harmonious Mission—2017’ Peace Ark from China

INTRODUCTION: The Chinese Naval ship Peace Ark provided humanitarian medical services to people in eight low-income countries in Africa and Asia during the 2017 “Harmonious Mission’. The expedition lasted 155 days. Our study aimed to analyse the details of the medical services provided including out...

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Autores principales: Tang, Bihan, Han, Y, Liu, X, Zhang, H, Li, M, Hu, C, Zhang, L
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33547191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001659
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Han, Y
Liu, X
Zhang, H
Li, M
Hu, C
Zhang, L
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description INTRODUCTION: The Chinese Naval ship Peace Ark provided humanitarian medical services to people in eight low-income countries in Africa and Asia during the 2017 “Harmonious Mission’. The expedition lasted 155 days. Our study aimed to analyse the details of the medical services provided including outpatient care, medical patrol, operations, examinations and medications. METHOD: The patient demographic data and medical information were extracted from electronic medical records. The diagnoses and procedures aboard were coded by the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The sociodemographic data of the medical staff aboard were collected via questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and statistical software (SAS, V.9.4) were used to analyse the data. RESULTS: In total, 115 Chinese military medical personnel participated in the mission, completing a total of 50 758 outpatient visits, 10 232 medical patrols and 252 operations. The five most frequently used outpatient departments were ophthalmology, general surgery, general internal medicine, orthopaedics and traditional Chinese medicine. The five most common operations were lipoma excision, cataract extraction, skin tissue removal (such as warts and cysts), pterygium transposition and herniorrhaphy. CONCLUSIONS: Our study revealed the medical services in demand during the ‘Harmonious Mission—2017’. It is essential to report their experiences so that future ventures can provide medical services more effectively.
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spelling pubmed-101763402023-05-13 Medical services provided on the ‘Harmonious Mission—2017’ Peace Ark from China Tang, Bihan Han, Y Liu, X Zhang, H Li, M Hu, C Zhang, L BMJ Mil Health Original Research INTRODUCTION: The Chinese Naval ship Peace Ark provided humanitarian medical services to people in eight low-income countries in Africa and Asia during the 2017 “Harmonious Mission’. The expedition lasted 155 days. Our study aimed to analyse the details of the medical services provided including outpatient care, medical patrol, operations, examinations and medications. METHOD: The patient demographic data and medical information were extracted from electronic medical records. The diagnoses and procedures aboard were coded by the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The sociodemographic data of the medical staff aboard were collected via questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and statistical software (SAS, V.9.4) were used to analyse the data. RESULTS: In total, 115 Chinese military medical personnel participated in the mission, completing a total of 50 758 outpatient visits, 10 232 medical patrols and 252 operations. The five most frequently used outpatient departments were ophthalmology, general surgery, general internal medicine, orthopaedics and traditional Chinese medicine. The five most common operations were lipoma excision, cataract extraction, skin tissue removal (such as warts and cysts), pterygium transposition and herniorrhaphy. CONCLUSIONS: Our study revealed the medical services in demand during the ‘Harmonious Mission—2017’. It is essential to report their experiences so that future ventures can provide medical services more effectively. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-05 2021-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10176340/ /pubmed/33547191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001659 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Medical services provided on the ‘Harmonious Mission—2017’ Peace Ark from China
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title_fullStr Medical services provided on the ‘Harmonious Mission—2017’ Peace Ark from China
title_full_unstemmed Medical services provided on the ‘Harmonious Mission—2017’ Peace Ark from China
title_short Medical services provided on the ‘Harmonious Mission—2017’ Peace Ark from China
title_sort medical services provided on the ‘harmonious mission—2017’ peace ark from china
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33547191
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001659
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