China Ministry of Science and Technology sponsored the Training Workshop on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Major Diseases in November 2018
Summary
Funding agency [Type]
China Ministry of Science & Technology [Government Agency]
Recipient
Myanmar
Sector
Health (Code: 120)
Flow type
Free-standing technical assistance
Infrastructure
No
Category
Project lifecycle
Geography
Description
On November 2, 2018, the International Training Workshop on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of the Major Diseases in ASEAN was opened in Yangon, Myanmar. The program is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, is hosted by the First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is co-organized by Yangon Medical Center (1) Women's Hospital of Yangon Medical University. The program would last two weeks, and 20 Myanmar medical personnel would receive the training. The opening ceremony of the training course also represented the inauguration ceremony of the "China-Myanmar Regional Major Disease Research Center". The training course invited more than 10 Chinese and foreign experts and scholars from Baylor College of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, East China Normal University, Hainan Medical College, and the First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College. The workshop would make trainees have a comprehensive understanding of China's mature tropical region diseases, especially thalassemia prevention and treatment, diagnosis and treatment-related technologies, and the latest progress from multiple perspectives. The training workshops ended on November 16, 2018.
Number of official sources
2
Number of total sources
5
Details
Cofinanced
No
Direct receiving agencies [Type]
Government of Myanmar (Burma) [Government Agency]
Implementing agencies [Type]
Hainan Medical University [Miscellaneous Agency Type]
Chinese University of Hong Kong [Miscellaneous Agency Type]
University of Medicine 1, Yangon [Miscellaneous Agency Type]