Danish Minister of the Interior and Health Sophie Løhde Jacobsen (second from right) and the delegation visit the Thai Binh University of Medicine and Pharmacy on March 5. (Photo: VNA)Thai Binh (VNA) – A senior official of the northern province
of Thai Binh highlighted the productive cooperation in healthcare with Denmark
while meeting with a visiting delegation of the Danish Ministry of the Interior
and Health on March 5.
Providing a brief introduction of Thai Binh, Vice Chairwoman of
the provincial People’s Committee Tran Thi Bich Hang said her province has an
evenly developed healthcare system with many quality training and treatment
institutions. Recently, the local health sector has applied many new and modern
techniques to treatment, thus helping improving public healthcare and
protection.
In particular, she noted, the strategic
programmes on non-communicable diseases between Vietnam and Denmark,
implemented on a trial basis in Thai Binh, has entered the second phase and
reaped positive results, helping better grassroots health workers’ capacity as
well as local healthcare conditions.
Hang
voiced her hope that the Danish ministry will continue promoting cooperation
activities in the province in the time to come.
For her part, Danish Minister Sophie Løhde Jacobsen said her
country is strong at preventive medicine and public healthcare quality.
Given the cooperation results gained so far, she expressed the
willingness to continue enhancing partnerships in and improving the
effectiveness of non-communicable disease prevention and control between Thai
Binh and Denmark.
Later
the same day, the Danish delegation visited the Thai Binh University of Medicine
and Pharmacy, including the Medical University Hospital. This is the
only training establishment in the province carrying out a research project on
chronic disease management in coordination with the University of Copenhagen
and the University of Southern Denmark.
Sophie
Løhde Jacobsen spoke highly of ’s cooperation programmes in Thai Binh,
adding that she believes the quality of grassroots healthcare and the province’s
health system at large will receive more attention and develop further in the
coming time./.
Source: VietnamPlus
