Dr. MyinT Htwe, Union minister for Health and Sport, arrived at the Myo Chaung Special Station Hospital on Saturday, where he toured the hospital, made sure that instructions given on his previous visit were implemented and provided further assistance.
Yesterday afternoon, Yangon region public health department met with officials of the World Bank to discuss their assistance in nutrition promotion activities, implementing of the national health project, emergency situations and the outbreak of natural disasters and infectious diseases.
They also met with a combined team comprised of members from the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the University of Oslo. They will convert the Myanmar health information system to a computer-based system using District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS-2) software as a National Database Platform. They also discussed upgrading the IT infrastructure of the ministry of health and sport.
Moreover, officials from Stanford University, a prestigious American university, called on the union minister and discussed maternity, child health matters and accommodation of Yangon General Hospital.
The union minister also paid respects to shweparamitawya Sayadaw Rev Sandadika and offered alms, it is learnt.—Myanmar News Agency
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World Bank provides assistance to Ministry of Health and Sport
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