One of the main reasons the MOFA chose PCH to send a medical team to Malawi was that it was already running medical missions in Wapang on the Thai-Burmese border, Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia and Yangon in Burma.
泰緬邊境的佤邦、中亞的吉爾吉斯坦、緬甸的仰光，都有屏基派駐的醫療團，這也是外交部選擇將馬拉威醫療團交托給屏基的主要原因。