Myanmar’s Minister of Health and Sports Dr. Myint Htwe and his entourage, who attended the G7 Health Ministers’ Meeting in Kobe, came to Okayama on September 12 and 13, visiting Okayama University.

A welcome reception was held by the university at a hotel in Okayama City on the 12th. About 100 people attended, including President Kiyoshi Morita and Professor Emeritus Shigeru Okada of the NPO Myanmar-Japan Collaboration Project for Fostering Medical Human Resources, both of Okayama University, and other members of associated organizations and companies. President Morita and Minister Myint Htwe addressed the reception and strengthened the interchange with Okayama University’s Burmese exchange students.
　　　
Minister Myint Htwe visited Okayama University Hospital on the 13th. He exchanged views with Hospital Director Hirofumi Makino, Medical School Dean Aiji Ohtsuka, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Dean Yasutomo Nasu and others on how to foster doctors, nurses, pharmacists and clinical engineers. He confirmed that he would actively promote medical human resource development in Myanmar in the future. In addition, he eagerly inspected Okayama University Hospital’s newest medical facilities, including operating rooms, the intensive care unit, and the IVR center, as well as simulation facilities for medical education.
　　　
The former Minister of Health and Sports has once visited Okayama University in October 2013. This time, Minister Myint Htwe was accompanied by Dr. Kyaw Khaing, Director of the International Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Sports; Mrs. Theingi Aung, Counsellor of the Embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in Japan; and an interpreter.
　　　
Okayama University has a long history of cooperative relations with Myanmar in human resource development in the medical field. As one of Japan’s six leading national universities* in this field, it is implementing JICA’s technical cooperation project, “The Project for Enhancement of Medical Education” in Myanmar from April 2015 to September 2019. It is teaming up with the universities to accept Burmese doctors, technicians and other medical personnel as trainees at universities, and is working for human resource development in Myanmar in a variety of fields by holding seminars and other programs. To contribute further to development of medicine in Myanmar, it plans to team up and cooperate with a broad range of organizations and companies with the aim of promoting policy development for medical support in Myanmar.

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