Taiwan hospitals boost ties with Mongolia
“The council has been actively promoting Taiwan’s international medical services,” TAITRA Executive Vice President Walter M. S. Yeh said. “This is the first medical referral platform that the nation has established in Mongolia.”
Taiwan doctor Li Zhongyi established FDAC in the Mongolian capital in 2010 and signed an agreement with local Nuun Has Hospital to set up a joint referral center. Between January 2011, when the center’s first patient came to Taiwan, and the end of 2012, 187 referrals have been made to the island.
Li, a graduate and former physician at National Taiwan University Hospital and currently at Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital in New Taipei City, said he founded FDAC after travelling to Mongolia and finding deficiencies in its health care system.
In 2012, foreigners coming to Taiwan for medical treatment topped 100,000 for the first time, and more than 30,000 have been treated in the first quarter this year, Yeh said. More than 20 overseas-based referral platforms have already been established under TAITRA’s aegis, he added.
“Taiwan has world-class medical treatment facilities and they should be actively promoted,” Yeh said. For the first stage of this push, TAITRA’s overseas offices will help identify 57 potential locations for the establishment of referral services. The second stage of the planned push is a strengthening of after-treatment services, such as outpatient care and consultation.
The 11 facilities that signed the memorandum are Cathay General Hospital; Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou; China Medical University Hospital; E-Da Hospital; Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital; Mackay Memorial Hospital; Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital; Taichung and Taipei Veterans General Hospitals; and Taipei Hospital. NTUH has previously established cooperation with HTIH. (SDH)
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