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Project team for Parasites Inspection visits East Timor to Investigate the Actual Status of Healthcare
Date : May 10, 2016
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From March 23 to March 31, Lim, Han Jong, an honorary professor(Project Chief) of Korea University and the head of KOFIH`s project for parasites inspection, and Min, Duek Young, an honorary professor(member) of Hanyang University visited East Timor which lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. They investigated the actual status of the project for Mange Mite Eradication in East Timor, one of KOFIH`s projects currently being discussed to provide support for healthcare in developing countries. Along with Han, Ga Hee, an assistant manager of KOFIH`s foreign cooperation team, the parasite inspection project team visited the WHO Office in East Timor located in Dili, the capital city of East Timor. They sought for measures to provide support by consulting with a person in charge of programs for management of tropical diseases(parasite/tuberculosis/leprosy). They visited Dili National Hospital located in the capital city of Dili and other local hospitals/health centers located in the areas near Imera and Manatutu. Through such visits, the actual status of healthcare in East Timor were seized. East Timor is a newly-established country which declared its independence from Indonesia in the year of 2002. It is one of the countries indicating the highest birthrate(8.2%) in the world. However, mortality of children under age of 5 is approximately 125 out of 1000 due to infections, premature births, and childbirth shocks which signify poor environments of its healthcare in East Timor. This can be well-proven by the fact that 51% of its entire population(1,250,000) are in ages of 15 or below. According to the reports of parasites inspection project team, the most critical contagious disease in East Timor residents is Malaria. The people in East Timor also suffer from tuberculosis, HIV, leprosy, respiratory infections, diarrhea, skin diseases, and parasites. This is due to the fact that 47% of the people do not receive provision of safe drinking water. Moreover, circumstances are being degenerated since the power supply, an infrastructure of the country, is insecure due to unstable mutual communication systems. The parasites inspection project business team agreed that the most urgent matters to improve healthcare environments in East Timor are raising specialists for communicable diseases, basic data on communicable diseases, and equipment for diagnosis of communicable diseases.