Chinese hospital ship to arrive today

China's People's Liberation Army's navy hospital ship “Peace Ark” will arrive in Chittagong today for a week-long visit to provide free medical services to locals and conduct academic exchanges with Bangladesh's military hospitals.
Peace Ark will make berth at Jetty NCT-5 of Chittagong Port and a welcome ceremony will be held there, said a Chinese embassy press release.
Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Rear Admiral M Saiful Kabir, Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jun and Rear Admiral of Chinese Navy and Mission Commander of Peace Ark Shen Hao will attend and address the ceremony.
Peace Ark is well equipped with medical facilities including seven medical offices, eight nurse rooms, eight operation rooms and 300 beds. It has the capacity to accommodate 40 major surgeries a day -- about as many as a large hospital in Beijing.  It has a burn ward, a bacteria-free ward, ICU, X-ray room, CT room, Doppler Ultrasound room, dental room and an information centre.
The ship has a medical crew of 102 including 46 doctors. Among the doctors, 15 of them have degrees of PhD and above. Their specialty ranges from surgery, internal medicine, genecology, ENT to traditional Chinese medicine.