Pastory G Nguvu couldn't thank enough the Chinese strangers who came to his rescue on Friday morning to beat a malaria relapse at a press center in downtown Beijing ahead of a historic China-African summit.

"He said 'if some day you went to Africa, please come to visit my home country Tanzania'," recalled doctor Zhang Beifei who was on duty in the Clinic of Press Center, saying that Nguvu, a reporter from the Tanzanian Sunday Observer, was very thankful after his conditions improved.

Around 8 o'clock in the morning, the young guy heavily bundled up but shivering staggered into the clinic dedicated to journalists who are here to cover the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-African Cooperation due to open on Nov. 4.

Failing to realize he was running a fever, Nguvu said his head was aching and the medicines he purchased from hospitals the other day were no cure for colds at all.

Finding him running a temperature as high as 39.2 degrees, Doctor Zhang asked for volunteer Hu Yumeng, an undergraduate from the Beijing International Studies University, to help interpret.

"He looked awful and kept shivering. With the air conditioning on, a thin shirt was enough here but he wore shirt, sweater and suit," Hu recalled.

Learning Nguvu has contracted malaria before, Doctor Zhang immediately diagnosed his symptoms as a recurrence To play safe, the Press office asked Hu to escort Nguvu to the Beijing Hospital and informed the Tanzanian embassy to Beijing.

"On his way to the hospital, Nguvu was very upset. With no acquaintance here, he said he missed his two children very much and feared that medical charges might be expensive," Hu said.

Blood and urine tests confirmed the diagnosis of Doctor Zhang. As no medicines for malaria were available, the clinic of the Press Office presented Nguvu some Artemisinin, an active ingredient in Qinghao, a Chinese herbal tea that has been used for 150 years to treat malaria.

"His situation has improved. In a week, he will recover," Zhang said.

Over 1,200 Chinese and overseas journalists have been registered for the covering of the summit, including about 300 African reporters who come to China for the summit highlighting " friendship, peace, cooperation and development".

Source: Xinhua