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Special Reports

Interview 1

Chen Cheng-ren, President,
Chiayi Christian Hospital

Raising the quality of women and children’s care in
Swaziland through cooperation with the TaiwanICDF

Swaziland has the highest HIV This project has two components, Christian Hospital also carried out
prevalence rate in the world. If namely, building the capacity a specialized survey. It is planned
a woman is a carrier of HIV, she of health care personnel and that 12 seed trainers will come
faces serious risk of dying during strengthening the functions of to Taiwan for training in February
pregnancy and also risks infecting medical institutions. The former 2017 and related equipment will be
the newborn baby through vertical includes providing regular education, successively procured by public
infection. With limited maternal evaluation and planning according tender.
and child health care resources, to the needs of the health care staff, Of the first-time cooperation with
as the threat of AIDS still looming, as well as arranging for medical the TaiwanICDF, President Chen
maternal and infant health care is personnel of Swaziland to receive says confidently, “The TaiwanICDF
an issue of pressing urgency for training in Taiwan and then serve as has been engaged in international
the country. seed instructors upon their return cooperation and humanitarian
In view of this, in line with by teaching related courses. As for assistance work for many years. It
Swaziland’s health development the latter, this includes strengthening has related expertise and also had a
policies and key points of basic maternal and infant health presence on the ground in Swaziland
international organization aid care functions of primary care units for many years. I trust that, in the
development, and to bring into play and emergency/critical maternal goal to assist Swaziland in reducing
Taiwan’s public heath advantages, and infant care functions of tertiary maternal and infant mortality rates,
Chiayi Christian Hospital’s President care units, supplementing or the TaiwanICDF is a reliable partner.”
Chen Cheng-ren says that the replacing maternal and infant lifeline
TaiwanICDF invited an expert from equipment, improving the maternal
the hospital to carry out a project and infant case management
identification mission in Swaziland system, developing and introducing
in 2014. Following this, guided maternal and infant monitoring and
by religious belief and the spirit information management systems,
of service, the hospital initiated a and enhancing community maternal
three-year cooperation with the and child health education outreach
TaiwanICDF and the Ministry of capacity.
Health of Swaziland in 2016 to President Chen explains that,
implement the Maternal and Infant under this project, related personnel
Health Care Improvement Project from Swaziland will come to Chiayi
in the Kingdom of Swaziland. The Christian Hospital for training and
aim was to increase the capacity guidance, with the TaiwanICDF in
of primary health care institutions charge of providing equipment and
and improve the quality of maternal managing the project, while the
and infant care, continuing to Ministry of Health of Swaziland will
extend overseas medical care and be focused on the operation aspect.
perseverance from Asia to Africa. After the program was launched in
July 2016, the TaiwanICDF’s public
Strengthening talent and health project manager took up his
hardware - a two-pronged post in Swaziland, and the expert
approach team dispatched together with Chiayi

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