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The hot mid-December sun had no impact on the highly motivated Chinese and African engineers working against the clock to construct the Africa CDC Headquarters.
While the long-awaited state-of-the-art facility takes shape and nears completion, the project’s fast progress has earned acclaim. It is also igniting expectations of transforming African public health.
The project’s construction is fulfilling expectations in terms of efficiency, high standards of construction, safety assurances, and experience-sharing mechanisms. This is according to Bethlehem Molla, the project’s safety officer. He has been on the job for more than a year and a half.
Chinese engineer Bao Dongdong claimed that his time spent here will be an excellent life experience. He expressed pride in seeing the project site transform from a wasteland to multiple buildings.
How the completion of the Africa CDC Headquarters project will impact the AU
According to Monique Nsanzabaganwa, the deputy chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, once the project is complete, the AU’s specialized healthcare agency would be equipped to execute its functions of coordination, mobilization, and emergency management in healthcare.
Nsanzabaganwa asserts that China’s ongoing efforts to promote the institutional strengthening of the Africa CDC have included the China-aided Africa CDC headquarters project.
Teruneh Zenna, a former ambassador of Ethiopia to the UN, said that Africa lacks the medical infrastructure necessary to deal with disease outbreaks like AIDS and Ebola. According to Senna, the diseases have claimed countless lives on the continent. He stated that it is commendable to have such a facility on African soil.
Costantinos Bt. Costantinos, a professor of public policy at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, recently said that the continent’s health sector is facing major problems. This is due to growing gaps in how it is addressing various healthcare issues. |
