PLA teams win over hearts

Medical workers from China made friends of people in Sierra Leone

In September, when the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital was virtually deserted after the death of an Ebola patient, Li Jin and his colleagues transformed the hospital into a special unit for treating patients with the potentially deadly disease.

Over the following six months, Li and his 114 colleagues from China's 302 Military Hospital treated 773 patients, including 285 confirmed with Ebola, 51 percent of whom were cured.