Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Ceremony for commissioning of the building of a Mongolia-Japan Teaching Hospital was held on April 1, which was built in territory of 12^th khoroo of Bayanzurkh district, covering 16,000 square meter.

“I am expressing my deep gratitude to the Government of Japan, JICA, Kanto Construction and kind people of Japan on behalf of thousands of graduates who are working in health sector of Mongolia. Besides conducting programs for resident students, and post graduate degree courses, the Teaching Hospital will be a scientific research center where complicated medical assistance and services will be rendered with up-to-date technologies of Japan by doctors and professors of the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS) and highly specialized physicians and hospital specialists. I hope this will become a teaching hospital that makes reform in health sector of Mongolia, and delivers good quality and accessible services to the citizens,” President of the MNUMS J.Tsolmon said in her opening remarks.  

With Japanese non-refundable aid worth MNT 175 billion, the hospital will start providing medical services from upcoming June 17. More than 500 physicians and hospital staffs will employ in this hospital, rendering 1042 types of medical care in 17 directions such as surgery, pediatrics, gastric disease, reanimation and emergency service to not only citizens of Bayanzurkh district and Ulaanbaatar city also whole population of the country.

The hospital consists of three main parts including six wards namely outpatient clinic, inpatient ward with 104 beds, training section, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and library. In the frames of the project, out of over 360 types of equipment and devices supplied by the Japanese side, up-to-date, high capacity diagnostic imaging devices such as MRI, CT, angiography equipment and fully automated laboratory analyzers and other equipment have been installed. The Mongolian side supplied equipment worth MNT 2.7 billion as well.  

It is planned to provide ambulatory check-up serve to over 600 people a day and over 180,000 people a year and receive 4300 inpatients, perform surgeries on approximately 2300 patients, and conduct more than 10,000 diagnostic imaging procedures.   

Thanks to the hospital, not only citizens receive advanced, high-level medical care, also it becomes available to reduce number of 39 diseases that are considered unavailable to be treated in Mongolia. Additionally, hospital management in Japan including ‘Patient-centered care’ and ‘Medical assistance team’ will be introduced.   

To ensure reliable activities of the hospital and give good quality medical assistance and services, the hospital will be put into operation at stages. Therapeutic wards at outpatient clinic will be opened this summer while inpatient ward will be opened at the next stage. Emergency service department will be commissioned at the third stage. As a result, conditions to provide high-level medical assistance and services with Japanese management will be created, the specialists consider.