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Transfer of South Korea`s Experience in Development of Healthcare to Nurses/Medical Engineers in Developing Countries
Date : May 10, 2016
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`Lee, Jong Wook`s Fellowship` was started to raise healthcare human resources in developing countries. `Lee, Jong Wook`s Fellowship` annually conducted by KOFIH(President Han, Kwang Soo) as part of the educational project to raise healthcare human resources in developing countries will be conducted for 12 weeks from September 10th. In this year, 23 doctors from 12 developing countries including Laos/Ethiopia participated. Last year`s training method targeting doctors only will be expanded to include nurses and medical engineers who practically take care of patients and run medical equipment. Therefore, the training this year is expected to be more useful. 11 nurses and 6 medical engineers will be joining the doctors in August. Dr. Supun Lakmal Mendis from Sri Lanka who attended the orientation held on June 22nd quoted "I would like to show my gratitude to KOFIH for establishing such an outstanding training course" and he also quoted "Based on such efforts made by KOFIH, the capability of the fellows like ourselves will be greatly reinforced". The medical staff members from developing countries who currently have arrived in Korea will attend the orientation scheduled to be held at KHRDI for a week. Then these participants will be distributed and arranged in 6 large-scale hospitals in South Korea including Seoul National University Hospital and Samsung Seoul Hospital. The current orientation consists of transfer of knowledge involving healthcare system in south Korea, procedure in using medical institutions, methods to claim expenses, South Korea`s lectures, projects to support mother and child`s healthcare, and medical insurance systems in South Korea. `Lee, Jong Wook`s Fellowship` is a project conducted by KOFIH to provide support for developing countries experiencing difficulties in constructing infrastructures through provision of opportunities for people from developing countries to participate in training which allows healthcare human resources from developing countries to approach advanced medical technology at South Korea`s leading university hospitals. Until last year, 56 persons from 9 developing countries including Tanzania, Angola, and Sri Lanka were invited into the training.