Seoul National University Hospital Goes to Myanmar for Medical Volunteer Activities
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Date : 2016-07-05
Seoul National University Hospital Goes to Myanmar for Medical Volunteer Activities
Seoul National University Hospital Public Health Medical Service department (Director Hee-Joong Kim) conducted foreign medical services in Yangon Children’s Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar from February 1st to 5th.
The 13 members of medical team led by the president of Seoul National University Children‘s Hospital, Suk-hwa Kim (Plastic surgery), in association with the local medical team, conducted successful surgeries to 18 patients, especially cleft lip and palate patients.
Myanmar rarely had children‘s facial deformities surgeries because there are few surgeons capable of carrying out cleft lip and palate surgery. Seoul National University Hospital, with support from Shinhan bank, has helped these patients by dispatching its medical team.
President Kim stated, “Our ultimate goal is not to stop at one-time medical service, but to enhance the healthcare status of Myanmar through consistent technological transfers from SNUH to Myanmar so that doctors in Myanmar can skillfully conduct this type of surgeries by themselves. We will continue to help.”
As part of such endeavors, Seoul National University Hospital selected seven Myanmar doctors through interviews, and has invited them to Korea in 2016. This training program was based on the ‘LOI‘ between SNUH and UM(1)(University of Medicine 1, Yangon), which was contracted in 2014.