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Special Reports - Public Health
knowledge, skills and experience, and realizing our
development objective of enhancing the quality of medical
services in these countries.
Training for Partner Countries’ Medical Personnel:
To harmonize our efforts with the health care-related
MDG targets of partner governments, we are
strengthening cooperation with other countries, supporting
visits and on-the-job training to enhance the competencies
of government officials working in medical administration
and management so as to improve the skills of health
practitioners and primary health care services. For
example, our Workshop on Healthcare Management,
organized for participants from the South Pacific and
Africa, covers the management of human resources and
the development of medical management policies and
practices, which cultivates talent in medical management
among such partner countries and promotes international
health care affairs through associated exchanges.
International Medical Cooperation:
In order to integrate the professional expertise
and experience of Taiwanese medical institutions we
are working with such institutions to tie together the
government’s health care-related foreign aid policies,
jointly assist our partners to upgrade the quality of their
medical services and the international humanitarian
assistance skills of Taiwanese medics, and generate
opportunities for working with international organizations.
To do these things, we have established the International
Health Care Strategic Alliance (IHCSA) with 37 private
medical institutes, so as to recruit more expertise from
the private sector.
Supported by the abundant medical and human
resources of this medical community, we are assisting
medics from IHCSA institutions to visit partner countries,
where they enhance the quality and depth of local medical
work by providing clinical demonstrations and training.
And our Healthcare Personnel Training Program, for
example, involves the cooperation of dozens of medical
institutes, with whom we have jointly developed workshops
to share the strengths of Taiwan’s health care system.
This provides participants with a rich clinical experience
that they can share, as seed teachers, upon returning to
their home countries.
Furthermore, we have been contributing assistance
toward plans to station medics in Pacific partner
countries on a permanent basis. The next step is to assist
partner countries to research their most pressing needs
in terms of medical cooperation, and to allocate the
proper resources needed for cooperation in the field of
international health care. Transferring projects involving
clinical technologies as successfully as possible requires
that we integrate and deepen the resources involved in
public health projects.
A group of medical management trainees visit the Clinical
Skill Learning Center at Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-
Ho Memorial Hospital under the guidance of local Taiwanese
doctors.
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