Ulaanbaatar
Mobile health technology project concludes
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On February 2, the Ministry of Health, WHO Representative Office in Mongolia and Embassy of the Czech Republic to Mongolia co-organized a meeting to introduce the outcome of a project named ‘Introduction of Mobile Health Technology at the Primary Healthcare and Community Level in Mongolia’.
The project was implemented in Umnugobi aimag and Songinokhairkhan district, Ulaanbaatar with the funding of KRW 400 million provided by Korean Foundation for International Health and the Community Chest of Korea NGO.
The project aimed to to improve health of the population especially by reaching out to disadvantaged population groups through introducing Mobile Health (mHealth) technology at the primary healthcare and community level within health system strengthening concept.
In the frameworks of the project, the Health Department of Umnugobi province and Health Center of Songinokhairkhan district received vehicles and equipments required for moving medical service such as portable electro-cardiogram, ultrasound and blood pressure measuring equipment and the staff attended workshops to learn how to work on the mobile technologies in the field.
The meeting discussed further opportunities to implement the project in other aimags and districts. Health Minister A.Tsogtsetseg noted the importance of the meeting in looking over the progress of projects that are being co-implemented, and expressed her readiness to cooperate in health sector.
Present at the meeting were representatives of the Ministry of Health, foreign diplomatic missions in Mongolia, WHO and other international organizations.
