Saint Lucia continues to benefit from medical assistance from Taiwan
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Contact: Taiwanese Embassy
Friday, January 15, 2010 – Taiwan will enter its first joint effort project in medical cooperation with the Government of Saint Lucia for 2010, when its delegation of six medical and nursing volunteers arrives on the island tomorrow.
Led by its Coordinator Dr. Nina KAO, the delegation is the second of its kind used by Taiwan to lend assistance to St. Jude Hospital, now housed at the George Odlum Stadium, as a result of its premises being destroyed by fire last year.
The team, which will work with St. Jude for a period of three weeks, will help alleviate the Hospital staff’s workload resulting from serious manpower shortages.
The team has been put together as a result of a twining arrangement between St. Jude and the Changhua Christian Hospital in Taiwan.
According to the Agreement, both medical institutions agree to undertake a comprehensive exchange of information on the health sector the provision of international volunteers.
They also agree to facilitate the increase in knowledge of health care professionals through the execution of seminars and professional training and exchanges of staff on the basis of equality and reciprocity.
Since then, two groups of seven members of the medical, nursing and technical staff from St. Jude Hospital staff have finished a three-month intensive training programme at the Changhua Christian Hospital in Taiwan.
Both training programmes serve as essential measures for the capacity-building of St. Jude Hospital. Initiatives of further training will be proposed and discussed in the next few months.
The delegation comprises three doctors, one senior pathological technician, and two nurses. |
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