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NTU medical students back nation's latest WHO bid

Presidential advisor Chen Lung-chu, right -- head of the Taiwan UN Alliance -- and Twu Shiing-jer, the former director-general of the Department of Health, hold a press conference to push for Taiwan's entry to the World Health Assembly. PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES

Students from National Taiwan University College of Medicine met yesterday at a news conference to push for Taiwan's accession to the World Health Organi-zation (WHO).

Taiwan, a full-fledged democracy where people enjoy fair, advanced and convenient medical care, should not be left out of the WHO and its activities simply based on a concept of global management, said Shen Rong-ching (沈榮慶), a leader of the college's Student Council.

Members of the student council said that WHO membership would not only allow Taiwan access to the global medical system but it will also help the nation's medical professionals to better globalize.

The council is scheduled to launch a series of activities on campus on Monday to introduce the WHO's organization, operations and stress how imperative it is that Taiwan is admitted.

Presidential advisor Chen Lung-chu, who is the head of the Taiwan UN Alliance and former Department of Health director general Twu Shiing-jer also held a press conference yesterday to back efforts to push for Taiwan's entry to the WHA.

Meanwhile, six other medicine and health organizations are scheduled to hold a joint news conference in Taipei today to formally demand the international community squarely face the issue concerning the health rights of the 23 million people in Taiwan.

In related news, Department of Health Director General Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) is scheduled to lead a mission for Geneva before May 17 to lobby for international support for the nation's bid to become an observer of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO's decision-making body.

Chen's official delegation, as well as more than 100 people from several Taiwanese groups, will be in Geneva to enhance the lobby drive during the 57th annual conference of the WHA.
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