Charity Group Launches Belt And Road First-aid Project
Sumaira FH Published February 21, 2017 | 04:56 PM
BEIJING (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Feb, 2017 ) , February 21 (APP): Chinese Red Cross Foundation (CRCF) has launched a first-aid project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative in Beijing.
The project will offer first-aid resources, including ambulances and medical professionals, and public health services along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a 3,000-km network of roads, railways and pipelines linking Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Southwest Pakistan's Gwadar Port, 'China Daily' Tuesday reported.
The first emergency medical center under the project will be built in Gwadar Port, according to the CRCF. The project is sponsored by the CRCF Silk Road Bo'ai Fund, a non-profit programme which aims to contribute to the Belt and Road Initiative by providing humanitarian services.
The fund was also launched on Monday. As part of the fund, a project on helping children with congenital heart disease in Afghanistan was announced by the CRCF on the same day.
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