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Primary health care quality and accessibility to be improved
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Minister of Health D.Sarangerel received Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH) Chairman Choi Moo Jin, KOFIH Foreign Cooperation Director Choi Hyun Joo and KOFIH Foreign Cooperation Manager, WHO Representative Sergey Diorditsa on February 26.
At the start of the meeting, the minister expressed her gratitude to KOFIH, Community Chest of Korea NGO (CCK) as well as WHO and other partnering organizations for giving financial and technical support to successfully implement the project, ‘Increasing the use of mobile technology in primary healthcare services’, in the name of all the doctors and specialists in the health sector of Mongolia.
In partnership with WHO and the funding of KOFIH and CCK, the Ministry of Health successfully implemented the project, ‘Introduction of mobile health technology at the primary healthcare and community level in Mongolia’, in three soums of Umnugobi aimag and two khoroos of Songinokhairkhan district of the capital city in 2016.
As for 2017, the project, ‘Increasing the use of mobile technology in primary healthcare services’ was implemented in one soum in each of the aimags Arkhangai, Bayankhongor, Bulgan, Gobi-Altai, Darkhan-Uul, Sukhbaatar, Selenge, Tuv, Uvs and Khuvsgul as well as one primary healthcare clinic for each of the Sukhbaatar and Chingeltei districts of the capital city, allocating 23 types of equipment that is worth MNT 310 million, preparing 45 doctors and specialists and doing medical checkups on 35,737 citizens. Two GeneXpert equipment worth over MNT 41 million are also currently being used at Uvs and Sukhbaatar aimags in the framework of the project.
In 2018, the project was implemented in one soum each in the Bayan-Ulgii, Zavkhan and Khovd aimags as well as one khoroo each in the Baganuur, Bayangol, Bayanzurkh and Khan-Uul districts of the capital city, having 33 doctors and specialists attend a 6-day-course for the usage of the equipment. Mobile ultrasound scans, mobile electrocardiograms, blood pressure monitors, monitors for blood glucose and cholesterol along with tests, rapid tests for STD and hepatitis B and C, height and weight measuring scales, mobile devices, such as laptops, iPad, Samsung tablets and external hard drives, and a manual for the implementation of the project were also handed over to the clinics and hospitals.
