Doctors at the Chinese naval hospital ship ‘Peace Ark’ that arrived at Chittagong on Monday are expecting that two babies will be born onboard on Tuesday.
The Chinese embassy in a media release said after the welcome ceremony, at least 200 people received treatment on the first day of its seven-day goodwill visit.
One of its teams conducted preliminary check-up on more than 100 patients at the Navy Patenga Hospital from where they picked up two pregnant ladies for C-section.
The embassy said they were expecting two babies would be born on the ship on Tuesday morning following successful surgical procedure.
During its first visit to Bangladesh in November 2010, the embassy said, doctors of the ship saved a dying pregnant woman with congenital heart disease.
“After emergency operations, the woman safely gave birth to a baby girl. The girl’s father named the baby “Chin”, who is now three years old”.
It said the doctors would meet the girl and the family and provide follow-up medical checkup on Aug 22.
The 300-bed floating hospital with modern and traditional Chinese medicine facilities would offer all sorts of treatment during its stay as part of “Mission Harmony 2013”.
The mission began four months back on June 10 and the ship came to Bangladesh after sailing in Brunei, the Gulf of Aden, the Maldives, Pakistan and India.
It will leave Bangladesh on Aug 25 and sail to Indonesia and Cambodia before wrapping up the mission on Oct 6.
Commissioned in December 2008, the hospital ship has a medical crew of 102 including 46 doctors and is equipped with CT, Doppler Ultrasound, automatic biochemical analyser, operation theatres, burns ward and bacteria-free ward.
It has intensive care (ICU) facilities.
Source: Bd news24
