Active support for COVID-19 response to the Laotian police hospital (Ha Mesa Hospital)
Medical Center pursued health and medicine international development cooperation projects with Laos from 2010
Selected as supervisor for the modern police hospital building project in Laos worth 70 billion KRW
[January 5, 2021]
<The YU Medical Center handed over medical supplies to the Laos police hospital>
YU Medical Center (Director Kim Tae-nyeon) stepped up to support Laos’ response to COVID-19.
YU Medical Center visited the Laos police hospital (Ha Mesa Hospital) on December 23 to donate dental masks to help in its efforts to overcome and respond to COVID-19 in Laos. The medical center is planning to donate hand sanitizers and dental masks to support the disinfection activities of the Laos police hospital, which has had difficulties in responding to the pandemic, and donated 4,000 masks as the first relief supply.
The YU Medical Center entered an MOU with the Laos Health Ministry in 2010 to improve the national health and medicine system and to construct a national medical center, and over the past 10 years, it has continuously expanded exchange and cooperation relations with Laos as it prepared to enter international development cooperation projects in health and medicine.
<Laos Police Hospital Modern Hospital Construction Project consultant service signing ceremony>
In result, it was selected as the supervising institute of the Laos police hospital modern hospital construction project that will be built using a loan of approximately 70 billion KRW for the project by the Export-Import Bank of Korea’s economic development cooperation fund (EDCF) for the first time in the Yeongnam region back in May of 2019, and it has been providing medical solutions accumulated by the medical center to upgrade the health and medicine system of Laos. In particular, Laotian alumni of YU who are working at the central government in Laos have displayed keen interest in this project and has been providing full support.
Phoutmala Phanhthamith, director of the Laos police hospital who attended the disinfection supply donation event, said, “This supply is a very meaningful event that symbolizes the long-lasting relationship of exchange and cooperation between the police hospital and YU Medical Center,” and added, “I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to everyone at the medical center and to the Laos Police Modern Hospital Construction Business Team.”
