Project Name：ROC (Taiwan)- Kingdom of Swaziland Medical Project

Project status：Completed projects

Cooperating Country：Kingdom of Eswatini

Project Description：

1.Improve the skills of medical personnel working at Mbabane Government Hospital, Mbabane.
2.Improve the quality of health services provided at Mbabane Government Hospital, Mbabane.
3.Assist authorities at Mbabane Government Hospital to set up a Neurosurgery Ward and operate it as a model ward at the institution.
4.Reduce the infant mortality rate due to neural tube defects by providing folic acid to pregnant women.
5.Improve the nutrition of school children.
6.Understand mortality rates due to Trichomonas Vaginalis infections among pregnant women, and establish an improvement plan.

Project No：HAD01-2010-002

Implementation Start Date：2011-01-01

Implementation End Date：2012-12-31

Source of Funding：MOFA

Project Objectives：

1.Provide medical services at the Mbabane Government Hospital, Mbabane.
2.Provide medical services in rural areas of Swaziland.
3.Improve the efficiency of hospital management and enhance medical standards and service quality by developing and implementing a technology transfer strategy.
4.Arrange for three Swazi medical personnel to visit Taiwan for advanced professional training.
5.Develop and implement a folic acid supply program for pregnant women.
6.Research a nutritional supplement program for schoolchildren.
7.Research incidences of Trichomonas Vaginalis infections among pregnant women in Swaziland.

Executing Agency：Taiwan Medical Mission in the Kingdom of Swaziland

Implementation Arrangement：Dispatched medical manpower long-term stationed in Mbabane Governmental Hospital to provide medical services, assistant establishment of hospital operating system, provide bed-side training to local medical workers and develop medical human resources in order to upgrade the capacity and service quality in hospital.

Project Performance：This program addressed the lack of local health care-related human resources and the poor quality of medical services in Swaziland, providing some of the specialist medical services needed by the community by stationing Taiwanese medical professionals at a Taiwan Medical Mission. Implementation results indicate that the program was a great success: More than 20,000 patients benefited directly from services provided, while the medical training programs and research conducted by mission members either for or alongside Swazi counterparts from the health ministry, local hospitals and medical institutions had a significant, long-term impact in building capacity in local health care-related human resources and in strengthening the quality of medical services available within the country.