Healing hands

In the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, the People's Liberation Army deployed a medical contingent including 70 members, of whom 12 were women.

At the request of the United Nations, the medical contingent was tasked with building a Level-Two Hospital to provide medical security for more than 3,000 UN peacekeeping members in Gao.

As another such hospital in Kidal, a city 400 kilometers from Gao, was not established, the Chinese medical contingent actually served 4,700 peacekeeping officials and soldiers in both Gao and Kidal.