Taiwan supported to participating in WHO activities   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2006-05-23 10:48  
Chinese Health Minister Gao Qiang said here on Monday that the Chinese 
government will continue its support for Taiwan compatriots to participate in 
technical activities of the World Health Organization (WHO). 
 
 
 
 
   Chinese Minister of Health Gao 
 Qiang is seen during the World Health Organisation (WHO) annual assembly 
 on the opening day of the meeting in Geneva May 17. China has signed an 
 agreement with the UN health agency to allow technical cooperation with 
 Taiwan, health minister Gao Qiang said. 
[AFP] |   "We support experts from Taiwan to 
participate in the WHO's technical activities, and help the Taiwan region 
receive timely and accurate international information and technical assistance 
to health," Gao told the 59th World Health Assembly (WHA). 
"We are determined to do, and do well, all the things that will benefit the 
health and well-being of the Taiwan compatriots," the minister said at the 
annual conference, which was attended by all 192 members of the WHO. 
 Gao recalled that last May a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between 
China and the WHO to assist health experts from Taiwan to participate in WHO's 
technical activities. 
 In accordance with the MOU, the WHO can invite health experts from Taiwan to 
participate in its technical activities, and send staff and experts to Taiwan to 
investigate the situation of health or epidemics and provide technical health 
assistance. 
 In case severe public health emergencies occur in Taiwan province, the WHO 
can also send staff and experts to Taiwan for field visits, and to provide 
technical health assistance. 
 "Facts have proved that with the implementation of the MOU, very favorable 
conditions have been created for effectively engaging Taiwan medical and health 
experts in technical activities of the WHO, technical exchanges, and the 
acquisition of medical and health information, etc.," Gao said. 
 He noted that since the MOU was signed, 10 batches of experts from the Taiwan 
region, or 18 persons, had participated in WHO technical activities, covering 
many specialties of health. 
 "We will energetically and conscientiously implement the MOU, and help health 
experts from Taiwan conduct more technical exchanges with the WHO," Gao 
said.  
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