Africa-Press – Ethiopia. January 10/2023 Realizing the building of Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Headquarters in Addis Ababa will be a legacy for Africans, Project assistant Coordinators underlined.
The construction work of the Africa Centers for Disease Controland Prevention (Africa CDC) Headquarters project, which has been supported byChina, started in December 2020.
While the project covers a totalconstruction area of nearly 40,000 square meters, the phase one of the construction covers 23,570 squaremeters.
Africa CDC is a specialized technicalinstitution of the African Union established to support public healthinitiatives of Member States and strengthen the capacity of their public healthinstitutions to detect, prevent, control and respond quickly and effectively todisease threats.
In an exclusive interview with ENA,assistant project Coordinator, Abel Shimelis said the successful completion ofthis state of the art continental health facility could be considered as alegacy for all Africans that transcend time.
The construction of the continental medical facility is being undertaken day and night to successfully complete the project as scheduled, he added.
It is believed that the center isimmensely crucial to strengthening the prevention and control of diseases inAfrica.
The laboratory is best-equipped withup-to-date technologies and can be competent at the international level, hesaid.
“The CDC Africa headquarters building project is a hugeproject which will have great contributions for Ethiopia and for the continentas whole.”
For the Assistant coordinator, the project has provided crucialknowledge transfer to Ethiopian experts who have been teamed up with Chineseexperts during the construction process.
Stating that realizing the project in Addis Ababa will be vital tocarry out various health-related researches, he said that it will be one of themanifestations that Africans can solve their health challenges and willcontribute to the rest of the world as well in the sector.
Citing that the project consists ofhigh-level laboratory scale technologies, he said “the laboratory is bestequipped with high scale technologies which can be competent at the globallevel.”
BiologicalLaboratory team leader of the project, Engineer Tewodros Birhanu said for hispart that the construction of the center is undertaken as per the internationalquality standards.
Recall that as the COVID-19 pandemicshowcased Africa CDC’s indisputable role in leading continental anti-pandemicefforts, experts believe that the future headquarters will further augment theAU health care agency’s institutional capabilities.
When completed the building will includean emergency operation center, a data center, a laboratory, a resource center,briefing rooms, a training center, a conference center, offices, andapartments, it was learned.
It is expected that China’sForeign Minister, Qin Gang, along with African Union Commission Chairperson,Moussa Faki Mahamat and other dignitaries will visit the Africa (CDC)Headquarters project site by tomorrow, 11 January, 2023.
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