Taiwan shares COVID-19 handling experience with Indian health experts
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s reaction to Covid-19 has been fast and effective. Many Taiwanese universities have shared their experience in the treatment and control of the spread of the virus in many countries. In India, Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University Hospital held 2 webinars on April 2 and April 14 to share their experiences with 11,850 Indian physicians, medical staff, and public health workers, and more webinars are expecting to come.
In the first webinar on April 2, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of Quarantine station, Dr. Bo-lin Chen, interacted with 10,250 Indian medical staff.
The second webinar on April 14 was attended by 1,600 medical staff members from all over India as well and the lecture was presented by Dr. Chia-wen Li, Physician of infectious diseases.
This program was hosted by Dr. I-Lin Hsu, International Medical Centre, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, who said, “its purpose is to provide Indian medical workers with an expert way to tackle COVID-19, which is the key lesson when we face this challenge.” He also added, “With 11,850 Indian medical staff being trained, we appreciated the help of ALKEM Laboratories Ltd and Veritaz Healthcare Ltd.”
Peters Chen, Director of Education Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre (TECC) in India said, “Due to the preparedness and best-equipped efforts of Taiwan against Covid-19, many Taiwanese schools and businesses continue to have Normal Operation as usual. Many universities held webinars with their partner universities around the world to share their experiences, strategies, and measures taken to deal with Covid-19.”
“For example, Asia University, I-Shou University, China Medical University, National Cheng Kung University, and so on. These universities have medical colleges and hospitals affiliated with the university, which provided firsthand information or experience to deal with Covid-19. These universities shared the best practices to cope with the virus through an educational approach so that more people could be equipped to help the public,” he added.
During the daily press conference on April 28, Minister of Health and Welfare Dr. Chen Shih-chung announced no new cases of the virus in the country.
This marks the 16th day that Taiwan has not reported a local case. So far, Taiwan has reported 429 confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 307 have recovered, and 6 died.
