Sin Lau Hospital, the country's oldest hospital, will dispatch a medical team to Geneva to back Taiwan's 9th attempt to participate in the World Health Organization (WHO) next month, hospital superintendent Tsuang Ming-sion (
The hospital, where President Chen Shui-bian's (
Maxwell was born in Scotland in 1836 and earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh and thereafter trained in Berlin and Paris. He arrived in Xiamen in 1864 and was sent to Taiwan after a year of language training. He began his medical missionary work in Tainan in June 1865.
Speaking at a seminar on the WHO, Tsuang pledged to send doctors, nurses and medical staff to Geneva to voice their support for the country's bid to participate in the international health body. The World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO's highest governing body, will meet in Geneva from May 16 to May 25.
"Our team has 24 members, including four doctors, six nurses and other staff. We will all wear white," Tsuang said.
Apart from the Sin Lau Hospital team, a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan, the Taiwan New Century Foundation and the Taiwan Medical Association, also plans to send teams to promote the nation's inclusion in the WHA.
Daniel Liao (
"The results were excellent. The US promised to support whatever strategy we are going to use," said Liao, who did not give the details of the strategy.
The ministry is currently under intense negotiations with Japan, which openly supported Taiwan's WHO bid last year.
"Japan should be able to continue supporting us this year. But the ministry keeps communicating with Tokyo to ensure that Japan will take a firm stand for us," Liao said.
This year, as in the past, Taiwan's diplomatic allies will propose that Taiwan's bid for WHA observership be included on the meet's agenda. The US, Japan and 23 of Taiwan's official allies voted for the "Taiwan issue" to be on the WHA agenda last year, but was met with harsh resistance from China.
The ministry has been soliciting support from EU countries, particularly that of the Britain, France and Germany.
"We are trying to obtain more countries' backing through bilateral medical cooperation programs," Liao said.
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