ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia will see a new "Silk Road" project taking root, and this time a privately-funded Chinese hospital, the first of its kind in the East African nation. On Tuesday, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Addis Ababa Silk Road General Hospital was held in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. There will be around 200 nurses at the hospital, about a quarter them from foreign countries, he told Xinhua. Liu Yu, economic and commercial counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia, said the Addis Ababa Silk Road General Hospital would inject new impetus in the cooperation between the two countries in the health sector. Lin Feng, vice chairperson of the Chinese Volunteer Medical Doctors Association, said the new hospital would serve as a medical training center.

Source: Ethiopian News September 14, 2017 08:03 UTC