From 17 to 23 December 2025, under the framework of the China–Solomon Islands Minimally Invasive Urology Surgery Center Project, the 4th China Medical Team, together with delegation from the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, worked closely with Solomon Islands counterparts.
Activities focused on academic exchange, surgical demonstrations, ward rounds for complex cases, laboratory capacity building, and community outreach clinics, comprehensively advancing China–Solomon Islands medical cooperation.
George Wilson Malefoasi, Chief Executive Officer of the National Referral Hospital (NRH) of Solomon Islands, affirmed China’s contributions to enhancing local medical capacity. Chinese experts delivered systematic lectures covering urology, nursing, anesthesia, laboratory medicine, emergency medicine, blood transfusion services, and nephrology.
Topics including standards for minimally invasive surgery, perioperative management, transfusion practices and laboratory quality control, optimization of emergency workflows, and dialysis techniques, were warmly received by local healthcare workers.
Zhao Xueke, head of the 4th China Medical Team, noted that the project has achieved phased results in technology introduction, team collaboration, and discipline development, and would continue to promote cooperation toward a more systematic and sustainable model.
In clinical guidance, experts from the blood transfusion and laboratory departments worked within relevant NRH units to guide the application of component transfusion, strengthen laboratory quality management, and assist with equipment installation and commissioning.
Emergency medicine experts exchanged experiences on the management of critically ill patients and conducted bedside teaching.
The urology team carried out preoperative ward rounds, live surgical demonstrations, and postoperative rounds for representative cases, jointly completing minimally invasive procedures such as transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) and ureteroscopic holmium laser lithotripsy with double-J stent placement. Anesthesiology experts demonstrated spinal and general anesthesia techniques and donated a video laryngoscope to NRH.
Operating room nursing experts provided guidance on infusion management and standardized instrument use and participated in intraoperative cooperation.
Postoperative rounds emphasized recovery monitoring, complication identification, tube management, and follow-up, with patients recovering well.
In addition, the 4th China medical team and expert delegation conducted community outreach clinics, providing health examinations, consultations, medications, and acupuncture services to residents of Good Shepherd Anglican Church, personnel at Rove Police Headquarters, and staff at the International Airport, Customs and Immigration departments, earning widespread praise.
This intensive exchange and outreach achieved multiple goals, including clinical capacity building, promotion of technical standards, and extension of public health services, laying a solid foundation for the continued development of the China–Solomon Islands Minimally Invasive Urology Surgery Center Project.
Zhao Xueke stated that the 4th China medical team would further deepen cooperation between the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University and NRH, expand and enhance the project, inject sustained momentum into China–Solomon Islands health cooperation, and translate collaborative achievements into tangible improvements in safeguarding the health of the local population.
– China Medical Team in SI
