Ghana is expecting to strengthen AI-assisted healthcare collaboration with China to enhance the wellbeing of its people as the two countries keep promoting exchange and cooperation in the medical field.
The AI-assisted healthcare cooperation was built on the two countries' years of healthcare exchanges and communication, during which batches of Chinese medical workers had been sent to the African country to help enhance its independent medical capability.
"Our main goal is to help Ghanaian medical workers make progress through years of cooperation with us by introducing new ideas, providing technical guidance, and offering regular training. Our mission is to build a medical team that continues to serve even after we leave," said Yang Yongguang, leader of the 14th Chinese Medical Team to Ghana.
Yang's team successfully carried out surgeries to save two Ghanaian orphans from umbilical hernia at the China-Ghana Friendship Hospital, popularly known as Lekma Hospital, in Accra.
The milestone achievement stood as an exceptional example of the increasing medical cooperation between the two countries, which a top Ghanaian health official said will be further enhanced by focusing on high-tech fields such as AI.
"We've identified that using technology, you can bridge some of these gaps. And one of the areas of identify (identification) has to do with introducing AI into our health service system for screening, for diagnostics, for treatment, among many other things. And we are looking forward to collaborating with China, with the companies, with the AI companies to see how best together we would advance," said Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, director-general of the Ghana Health Service.
AI has emerged as one of the most important fields of medical cooperation between China and Ghana. In Aug 20, the second edition of the China-West Africa Medical and Health Industry Expo opened in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, to promote the use of AI in medical diagnosis and deepen project cooperation between China and West African countries.
The three-day event, co-organized by the Health Community of West Africa (HCOWA), a Ghana-based Chinese firm, and the Ghana Health Service, brought together government officials, health professionals, regulators, and more than 100 exhibitors from China and West African countries.
Ghana expects to strengthen AI-assisted healthcare collaboration with China
The 32nd Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) concluded on Sunday after a five-day run, sealing 2,835 copyright trade agreements and letters of intent between Chinese and international publishers.
The fair brought together over 1,700 exhibitors from 82 countries and regions, with social sciences, children's books, and science and technology titles ranking as the top three categories in trading volume.
At the exhibition, the first batch of results from the China-Italy Classic Works Mutual Translation and Publishing Project was officially unveiled.
Four works have completed mutual translation and publication: Chinese titles "I and the Temple of Earth" and "An Overview of Ancient Chinese Architecture", alongside Italian classics "I Canti" and "From the New Science".
"I believe this will bring great cultural value to readers in both Italy and China. This year marks the first achievement, and we are now in the process of deciding the four books to be translated next year," said Federico Roberto Antonelli, cultural counselor of Italian Embassy in China.
Domestic publishing houses continued to push high-quality works for overseas promotion.
China's "Road Choices in the Past 100 Years", a record of China's century-long development journey, saw its Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese editions launched at the fair.
"This book has already been translated into five languages. We've found that many international colleagues are paying close attention to this type of books. We also believe that books on the origins of Chinese civilization and other traditional cultural classics (and similar topics) are of high demand," said Song Zhijun, executive director and Party secretary of Life Reading New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore.
"Charming Guangdong," a book celebrating Lingnan culture, has signed a copyright deal with a Polish publishing institution to expand its international audience.
This year's fair featured a rich variety of copyright export categories, covering literature, art, history, and other fields, with notable achievements in children's publications going global.
Haiyan Publishing House signed strategic cooperation agreements with publishing institutions from the United States and Sri Lanka, centered on its "Chinese Classic Folk Tales Picture Book Series" as part of the Chinese Civilization Heritage Collection.
The 32nd Beijing International Book Fair opened on June 17 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing under the theme "Books as a Bridge for Dialogue, Exchange and Win-Win Cooperation".
32nd Beijing Int’l Book Fair concludes with 2,835 copyright agreements
